Host
The i2Insights toolkit is curated by Gabriele Bammer and Peter Deane as a major Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) activity.
i2S is developed through a program of research and education at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) in the ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy (CLGP) at The Australian National University (ANU).
It is worth noting that the resources we produce and curate are valuable not only for population health problems, but also for any other complex societal and environmental problem. Indeed a driving rationale for i2S is to promote the sharing of relevant resources across problems and fields. For example, interdisciplinary integration, critical systems thinking, system dynamics modelling, principled negotiation and a raft of other tools are useful in studies of obesity, climate change, humanitarian crises, and more in population health, environment, security, education… and the list goes on.
Partners
We welcome partnerships with relevant organisations, journals and events.
Members of partner organisations provide i2Insights contributions on agreed themes over a short or longer time. Similarly contributors to partner journals write i2Insights blog posts about aspects of their journal articles relevant to i2Insights; these are usually about methods, concepts or other tools that are useful for tackling complexity. From time to time there have also been partnerships with conferences, where a number of conference participants write i2Insights contributions based on their conference papers. These partner conferences are not listed below, but are listed on the relevant blog posts.
i2Insights currently has partnerships with:
- the journal GAIA
- the professional association Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance).
Previous partnerships have been with:
GAIA: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society
Since 2017, contributors to the journal GAIA have been invited to further the reach of their work through i2Insights contributions about the tools used in their papers. GAIA makes these papers free-to-access for a month after the i2Insights contribution is published, unless the paper is already open access.
To see all i2Insights contributions from the partnership with the journal GAIA: https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-gaia-journal/
Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance)
In 2026, the ITD Alliance launched a project on Recognising and valuing conceptual and linguistic pluralism which will comprise a series of videos that explore the diverse way that members around the world define and describe the work they do in inter- and transdisciplinarity, as well as other collaborative modes of boundary-crossing research, education and practice. Members are invited to accompany their video with a contribution to i2Insights, which has been the case for the first video in the series.
There have also been two previous i2Insights contributions by members of ITD Alliance working groups and these have been retrospectively included in the partnership.
Contributions from partnerships with conferences co-hosted by the ITD Alliance, where a number of conference participants wrote i2Insights contributions based on their conference papers, are not included in the partnership, but are listed on the relevant blog posts.
To see all i2Insights contributions from the partnership with the ITD Alliance: https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-itd-alliance/
SESYNC
The foundation partnership for i2Insights, from 2015-2018, was with SESYNC, the US National Science Foundation-funded National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland, located in Annapolis, Maryland, USA.
i2Insights blog and toolkit was a core activity of the SESYNC theme Building resources for complex, action-oriented team science. The theme was home to the three pursuits listed below and their activities, especially tools discussed or developed, are showcased in a number of i2Insights contributions. Blog posts have also been contributed by participants in other SESYNC pursuits and activities.
The three pursuits in the SESYNC theme Building resources for complex, action-oriented team science were:
i2Insights contributions resulting from the activities of these pursuits can be found at https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-sesync/
PopulationHealthXchange
The partnership with the PopulationHealthXchange started in October 2018 and ended in mid-2024 when the PopulationHealthXchange was disestablished. PopulationHealthXjournal/change was hosted by the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University to provide “resources for fostering partnership and knowledge co-production among researchers and diverse stakeholders in order to achieve better health outcomes through evidence-informed policy and practice change.”
To see all i2Insights contributions from the partnership with PopulationHealthXchange:
https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-populationhealthxchange/
Alice Wetherell from PopulationHealthXchange designed the images for the “‘Stakeholder Engagement Primer” and “Understanding Diversity Primer“. Alice Wertherell and Erin Walsh, also from the PopulationHealthXchange, designed the images for the Editor’s additions.
Defence Science and Technology
The partnership with Defence Science and Technology in the Australian Department of Defence was based on a collaborative project on unknown unknowns. i2Insights published a series of blog posts featuring concepts, methods, processes and other tools addressing unknown unknowns written by experts in the field between August 2019 and January 2021, with a synthesis published in September 2022.
To see all i2Insights contributions from the partnership: https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-defence-science-and-technology/
Evidence and Policy
Between 2016 and 2020, contributors to the journal Evidence and Policy, were invited to further the reach of relevant work through i2Insights contributions about their papers. Evidence and Policy made these papers free-to-access for a month after the blog post was published, unless the paper was already open access.
To see all i2Insights contributions from the partnership with the journal Evidence and Policy:
https://i2insights.org/tag/partner-evidence-and-policy-journal/
- Page updated: March 3, 2026