Welcome to the first I2S News of 2018. As always, the News features new additions to the resources on the I2S website (https://i2s.anu.edu.au), as well as references to the latest blog posts on the Integration and Implementation Insights blog (https://i2insights.org).

We’ve changed how we present relevant conferences in the News. We will no longer feature upcoming conferences. Instead we now have a permanent list of conferences and links to their websites on the I2S website, to which we are still adding, see: https://i2s.anu.edu.au/resources/conferences. We will occasionally feature one-off conferences and conferences of particular interest to readers in the News.

The i2Insights blog has entered year 3, after a very successful second year. You can see the second annual review at https://i2insights.org/2017/12/19/second-annual-review/. Highlights include 80 new contributors from 7 new countries since 2016 and a substantial increase in comments with a median of 7 comments per blog post.

We hope 2018 is off to a good start for all of you.

I2S News features a range of resources which have been added to the I2S website in the last two months, and this includes:

• Featured Tool:
  • Context: Five questions for considering the political environment
• Latest I2Insights Blog Posts:
  • There have been 5 new contributions since the last I2S News
• Featured Journal and Journal News:
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • GAIA journal ‘Frameworks for Transdisciplinary Research’ #2
• Featured Professional Association:
  • UK Implementation Society
• Featured Conference:
  • Science of Team Science 2018 Conference

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