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With the postponement of SRI 2020 to 2021, we’re looking to move a preliminary version of our proposed workshop and the business meeting online. We’ll post details when we have them: https://nitro-oceania.net/sri2020-workshop/

The February 27 videoconference of the NITRO-Oceania Executive plus members of the working group planning the next NITRO-Oceania meeting further developed the proposed workshop and business meeting. Details are provided as they become available.

NITRO-Oceania expressed its extreme disappointment in the draft conclusions about appropriately classifying interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research presented in the consultation draft produced by the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) review (https://arc.govcms.gov.au/anzsrc-review/anzsrc-consultation). Concrete suggestions for the report were made and the review was urged to set in train an analysis and consultation process […]

Planning is proceeding apace for the NITRO-Oceania workshop at SRI2020 (June 14-17, 2020). The workshop will aim to accommodate around 100 participants made up of leaders of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations, early career researchers and participants from industry, society and governments. The focus will be on telling interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research success stories in […]

We’ve been successful in our application to run a workshop at SRI 2020 (Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2020), a major international event that will be held in Brisbane from June 14-17, 2020. Watch this website for more details about the workshop.

The NITRO-Oceania Executive plus members of the working group planning the next NITRO-Oceania meeting discussed preparations for that meeting at Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) 2020 in Brisbane in June. We have applied to be part of the formal SRI2020 program and should hear soon whether our proposal has been successful. We have decided to […]

Closes 9 February 2020. See: https://internal-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/498728/director-and-chief-executive-officer-sydney-institute-of-marine-science

Closes 5 February 2020. See http://search.jobs.uq.edu.au/caw/en/job/508790/director-global-change-institute

The NITRO-Oceania Executive plus members of the working group planning the next meeting discussed preparations for that meeting at the Sustainability Research and Innovation (SRI) 2020 meeting in Brisbane in June next year. The Executive also heard about the videoconference by members of the Impact Narratives working group, and updates on other activities.

The impact narratives working group (see https://nitro-oceania.net/activities/working-groups/) discussed ways to progress their work and decided that two complementary approaches would be useful: An initial “bottom up” focus on quickly building up our collection of impact narratives so that successes and learnings are “on the record” A longer-term strategic pathway that addresses questions such as the […]