Welcome to the SISS Website

The mission of Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (RNSISS) is to enhance Australia’s capacity and capability to conduct innovative, cross-disciplinary policy-relevant, research in spatially integrated social science and to provide the evidence base for understanding the issues and challenges facing people and places in coping with changes in contemporary society.

RNSISS will facilitate Australia’s social scientists to develop and apply spatially integrating research paradigms and approaches in pursuing these objectives:

• Enhance existing, and facilitate the emergence of new capacity and capability among social scientists to undertake world class research and development in SISS through cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Promote and facilitate increased and more effective cross-disciplinary collaboration between researchers in Australia and internationally.
• Engage and nurture young and inexperienced researchers to build research capacity and capability and to ensure future research leadership.