She is also a co-director at Mistra-Urban Futures, a transdisciplinary Center for sustainable urban development. At the Center, Merritt heads the development of a transdisciplinary methodology for the co-production of knowledge and capacity building between and among different disciplines, and private, semi-private and public organizations. She is responsible for developing and evaluating guidelines and strategies for ensuring that the knowledge produced at the Center is usable for the targeted stakeholder groups. Some of her current research projects include: transdisciplinary learning, links between transdisciplinary and sustainability, and evaluating transdisciplinarity by combining practical relevance and scientific excellence.