An important area of my work concerns the theory and practice of community inquiry. It includes both studying and promoting collaborative, community-based development through various projects.

Examples include:

• The Community Informatics Initiative and the development of collaborative tools such as iLabs.
• The Distributed Knowledge Research Collaborative, studying new forms of writing and other collaborative practices in scientific research.
• Studies of intentional learning communities, such as GK-12 (school-university collaboration),
• Biology Student Workbench (a computational environment that facilitates bioinformatics research, teaching, and learning),
• Plants, Pathogens, & People,
• Physics Community Outreach,
• Project SEARCH (Science Education and Research for Children).