Social Science for change
The Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action, first founded in Lebanon in 2006 under the name of Lebanon Support, is a multidisciplinary space creating synergies and bridging between the scientific, practitioner, and policy spheres. The Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action aims to foster social change through innovative uses of social science, digital technologies, and publication and exchange of knowledge.
We achieve our mission through human-centered, transformative and multidisciplinary research, and engagement in multi-level fora.

The centre conducts and facilitates original, interdisciplinary, and scientific research that is published and disseminated in various formats (including peer-reviewed research, articles, policy briefs, mappings, and visuals). Research is developed by the centre’s hub of scholars, fellows, and network. It aims to publish grounded, contextualised, and transformative research, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
As an action-oriented research hub, the centre is committed to an open access policy, making all of the centre’s publications available to a wider public. This stems from the centre’s mission to foster social change through free access to information, innovative uses of social science, digital technologies, and publication and exchange of knowledge.
The centre adopts a participatory, grounded methodology that aims at informing multi-level action through evidence-based and contextualised knowledge. 
The interdisciplinary dimension of the centre’s research allows it to draw from and build synergies across disciplines, as well as across the scientific, practitioner, and policy fields. This contributes to critical thinking and action, and informs public debates and narratives, as well as public policy-making processes.

The centre engages its diverse audience and stakeholders in various knowledge exchange and dissemination, and action avenues, including knowledge sharing events, scientific seminars, fellowships and study weeks, as well as workshops, and incubation.

Brief History
The Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action was founded in 2006 in Lebanon, under the name of Lebanon Support, to document and facilitate information sharing and management, as well as to foster cooperation and partnerships between the different civic and civil actors in Lebanon, in the aftermath of the Israeli July war. Registering officially in Lebanon in 2009, and as the centre’s work grew, Daleel Madani was launched as a separate online platform in 2011, in order to cater to more than 1 thousand civil society actors at the time. Daleel Madani, since 2019, has been serving users and audiences at a regional and global level. It is the only global reference for civil society actors that is locally owned and operated, fulfilling the mission of putting civic tech innovation at the service of civil society and democratic processes. The Civil Society Knowledge Centre, the multidisciplinary research platform, was launched in 2013, consolidating the position of the centre as a research hub, followed by the Civil Society Review, a peer-reviewed journal, in 2015, which had to be put on hold in 2022 due to funding challenges. This, however, did not impact the peer-review process for the centre’s ongoing research. In 2016, the Civil Society Incubator was established under Daleel Madani, building on the informal support and coaching the centre had been providing over the years, and in an effort to democratise access to knowledge and tools.
Through these programmes, the peer-reviewed research, and fellowships, the centre strived towards producing transformative knowledge contributing to social change.

The centre’s name change in 2021 to Centre for Social Sciences Research and Action reaffirms the scope of the centre’s work and motto:  “social science for change”.