The Beautiful Social Research Collaborative is a community-engaged writing program within the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Saint Joseph’s University.

 We are motivated by the beautiful, social, and collaborative aspects of working side-by-side with those who are driven to make transformative change. We practice community-led design – where we involve stakeholders in all aspects of the design research process to ensure their needs and perspectives are represented, shifting the traditional power dynamic of design research and allowing for a more equitable distribution of power and greater diversity of views.

Over the past fourteen years, we’ve engaged in 129 projects in new media and social web consultancy, training, professional writing, social media management, online survey design, web design, and web-based video free of charge with communities in the Greater Philadelphia Area — and beyond.