i2S and i2Insights

There is a strong connection between Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) and Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights).

Integration and Implementation Sciences (i2S) is a new discipline providing concepts, methods, processes, theories, frameworks and other tools for conducting research that aims to better understand, and bring about improvements in, complex societal and environmental problems.

Integration and Implementation Insights (i2Insights) blog and toolkit brings i2S to life by collecting the tools that are critical to i2S. In weekly (usually) blog posts, contributors world-wide are invited to briefly describe tools that they have developed or used, and these are then stored in an indexed toolkit (see https://i2insights.org/all-posts/all-post-list/ for a list of all posts and https://i2insights.org/index/ for information about the index).

At the end of 2025, there were 600 blog posts describing various tools by 759 authors from 61 countries (see https://i2insights.org/about/i2insights-statistics/ for more detailed, as well as the latest, statistics).

i2Insights also gives life to i2S by connecting the many individuals and academic communities that develop and apply those tools. These include the following communities: inter- and transdisciplinarity, systems thinking, complexity science, action research, post-normal science, implementation science, the decision sciences, and the science of team science. (For more detail, see https://i2insights.org/2020/05/19/finding-integration-and-implementation-expertise/.)

The index developed for the i2Insights blog and toolkit has also shaped i2S, leading to a redesign of the i2S framework, which is in harmony with the main topics (or categories) of the index. The i2S framework highlights the eleven main categories which comprise the index (in alphabetical order: change, communication, context, decision making, diversity, integration, research implementation, stakeholder engagement, systems, teamwork, unknowns).

Evolution of i2S and i2Insights websites

The i2Insights website for the blog and toolkit, at https://i2insights.org/, was developed in 2015. The i2S website was originally separate, with the first iteration of the i2S website developed in 2002, and revised in subsequent years. The URL had the form (note that this link is not active): i2s.anu.edu.au. 

In late 2024 we decided to add i2S materials from the separate i2S website to the i2Insights website and this process is now get close to finalisation. At the same time we updated and refreshed the materials transferred.

You can follow progress in i2S News.