Activity

Submission on appropriate research classifications for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research to the joint review of the Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) conducted by the Australian Research Council (ARC), Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Statistics New Zealand (Stats NZ), and the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE).

(Online): NITRO-submission_ANZ-research-classification-review_2019_classifying-ID-and-TD-research (PDF 130KB)

First meeting of leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations in the Oceania region.

Agreed to form the Network of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research Organisations – Oceania as the peak body for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the Oceania region.

Third meeting of global leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations at Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.

The focus was on documenting lessons discussed at the March 2018 meeting in two peer-reviewed journal articles.

The target audience is new leaders of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations.

Attended by Gabriele Bammer and Iain Gordon from the Oceania region.

Second meeting of global leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations at the School for the Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

The focus was on the potential for a new global community of practice, as well as discussing a strategy to develop programmatic and educational resources for future leaders.

Attended by Gabriele Bammer and Ken Taylor from the Oceania region.

Planning started for the May 2019 meeting of leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations in the Oceania region.

Organising team: Gabriele Bammer, Paul Bertsch, Iain Gordon and Ken Taylor.

Publication of a feature article in Nature Sustainability about the inaugural meeting of global leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) in March 2018.

The article entitled: “Meeting the leadership challenges for interdisciplinary environmental research” was written by SESYNC journalist Lisa Palmer. It was published in volume 1 on pages 330-333.

(Online): Meeting-the-leadership-challenges_interdisciplinary-environmental-research (PDF 790KB) (DOI – external version): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0103-3

First meeting of global leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary organisations at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, Maryland, USA.

Attended by Gabriele Bammer, Paul Bertsch, Iain Gordon and Ken Taylor from the Oceania region.

Idea of an Oceania region network first discussed.