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The next NITRO-Oceania seminar will be held online on Fri 1st Dec 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm AEDT. Dr Rachel Kelly, Knowledge Broker at the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Australia will speak on “Interdisciplinary Early Career Researchers – Perspectives and Potential Partnerships.” For more information see https://nitro-oceania.net/activities/seminars/. Register at: https://events.humanitix.com/interdisciplinary-early-career-researchers-perspectives-and-potential-partnerships Registrants […]

The minutes of the October 17 2023 Annual Business Meeting are available at https://nitro-oceania.net/activities/business-meetings/2023-business-meeting/ Nominations are sought for three vacancies on the NITRO-Oceania Executive. Contact Iain.Gordon@anu.edu.au

The agenda and papers are now available for the October 17 2023 Annual Business Meeting see https://nitro-oceania.net/activities/business-meetings/2023-business-meeting/ Times: 10-11am Western Australia 12-1 pm Papua New Guinea and Queensland 1-2 pm NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania 2-3 pm Fiji 3-4 pm New Zealand and Samoa

NITRO-Oceania provided a response to the draft of Australia’s National Science and Research Priorities on September 28, 2023. More information is also available about the activities of the Informing research and funding policy working group.

SAVE THE DATE: October 17 2023 for the Annual Business meeting Timing: 10-11am Western Australia 12-1 pm Papua New Guinea and Queensland 1-2 pm NSW, ACT, Victoria and Tasmania 2-3 pm Fiji 3-4 pm New Zealand and Samoa Details will be circulated closer to the date. For information on previous business meetings see: https://nitro-oceania.net/activities/business-meetings/

At the September 5 video-conference, the NITRO-Oceania Executive: * Reviewed actions taken and planned * Noted the submission of the working group on informing research and funding policy to the Interim Report of the Australian Universities Accord panel, highlighting that it made no mention of inter- or trans-disciplinarity in education or research * Discussed the […]

NITRO-Oceania made a submission on August 31, 2023 in response to the interim report released by the Australian Universities Accord. More information is also available about the activities of the Informing research and funding policy working group.

At the July 27 video-conference, the NITRO-Oceania Executive: * Reviewed actions taken and planned * Reviewed the pros and cons of NITRO-Oceania becoming an independent organisation and decided to keep this on hold in the meantime * Noted the NITRO-Oceania response to “Looking at the Future of Transdisciplinary Research” was now published on the International […]

NITRO-Oceania’s response to the discussion paper “Looking at the Future of Transdisciplinary Research” prepared by the International Science Council Centre for Science Futures was published on their website on July 4, 2023 at https://futures.council.science/publications/transdisciplinary (scroll down to “Open online forum discussion”). More information is about the report and the NITRO-Oceania response is available on the […]

NITRO-Oceania (through the Informing research and funding policy working group) will provide comments on the recent discussion paper “Looking at the Future of Transdisciplinary Research” prepared by the International Science Council Centre for Science Futures – see https://futures.council.science/news/call-for-comments for both the call for comments and the link to the report. Comments are due by June […]