Australia’s Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, launched Strengthening Interdisciplinary Research: What It Is, What It Does, How It Does It and How It Is Supported (1.62MB PDF) on April 3, 2012 in Melbourne. The report was written by Gabriele Bammer for the Australian Council of Learned Academies (https://acola.org/1-strengthening-interdisciplinary-research).

The March/April 2012 I2S News has been published and this edition features links to the (1) Team Science online learning resource; and, (2) Health Systems Evidence: An Online Repository of Research Evidence and Implementation; and, (3) a case study on Participatory Research: Transforming Impoverished Pastoral Communities in Ethiopia.

The January/February 2012 I2S News has been published and this edition features links to (1) Pre-empting Discord: Pre-nuptial Agreements for Scientists; and, (2) Writing for Change: An Interactive Guide to Effective Writing, Writing for Science, and Writing for Advocacy; and, (3) Case Studies in Interdisciplinary Research.

The November/December 2011 I2S News has been published and this edition features (1) critical systems heuristics; (2) a taxonomy of unknowns; and (3) communicating research for evidence-based policymaking.

The September/October 2011 I2S News has been published and this edition features the Quantitative risk matrices method; the Systems Research and Behavioral Science journal; the Evidence-Based Policy in Development Network and the usual update to conferences that may be of interest to I2S practitioners. 

We have replaced our in-house ANU Integration News with a publication focused on a broader and more international audience – I2S News. The aim of this newsletter is to provide regular updates about resources for researchers who investigate complex real world problems by: