The list below presents several areas of current and potential inquiry and research on the SE. This is no means a comprehensive or exhaustive list of possible topics but is intended to help frame and develop student research interests and to stimulate new ares of inquiry and dialogue.

Research Themes and Topics:

1. Descriptive research, comprehensive data analysis and measurement, development of regulatory frameworks
2. Public policy related, when and how government shoud finance and help fund SE initiatives
3. Development of tools and methodologies for measuring the presence and impact
4. Research that links different elements, sectors and actors within the SE and attempts to break down silos between them
5. Research that explores the connections between the SE and other-related areas/disciplines of research and inquiry
6. Develop best practices for both the public sector and private sector around the SE
7. Develop best practices and ways to increase the effectiveness of the SE
8. Explore current challenges and shortcomings of the SE
9. Development of approaches to promote the SE and that seek to better understand the SE and its component elements
10. Ways to measure the benefits and long-term effects of the SE
11. Tracing the SE at the global (macro) and local (micro) levels and the intersections between SE activity in these two areas
12. the impact of "globalization" processes on the SE