Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

2009 Annual Symposium

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

About ARCRNSISS

Established by the ARC in late 2004, ARCRNSISS is a research network comprising more than 500 researchers and graduate students drawn from across 17 universities and two Commonwealth government agencies, the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics.

The mission of the ARC Research Network is:

To enhance Australia's capacity and capability to conduct innovative, cross- disciplinary and policy-relevant research in Spatially Integrated Social Science and to provide the evidence base to enhance knowledge and understanding of the issues and challenges facing people and places in coping with changes in contemporary society.

The activities of ARCRNSISS include:

  • an annual Summer School for Research Higher Degree Students in SISS Theory and Methods
  • Specialist Workshops in SISS Methods, Tools and Techniques
  • funding interdisciplinary and cross-institutional research collaborations to:
    • hold workshops on outcomes of SISS research
    • facilitate the development of large scale research project proposals submitted for competitive research funding
    • sponsoring and co-sponsoring special sessions on SISS research as part of national and international conferences
    • holding special workshops and symposia on topics that incorporate SISS approaches to research
  • the development of on-line Shared Research Resources, including socio-spatial data bases at different levels of geographic scale and the development of an e-Research Facility for Socio-Spatial Analysis and Modelling.

Vist the ARCRNSISS web site.

For more informational, please contact the Academy Secretariat:

  • It's currently 9:11 pm on Thursday, May 17, in Canberra.

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