1. Global leaders network

A collaboration between Gabriele Bammer and the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center from 2015 to 2018 provided an opportunity in 2018 to establish a “global” network of leaders in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations. Although it was heavily US dominated, there were also leaders from Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

The network met three times in 2018 and produced three publications. For details see: https://nitro-oceania.net/global-network/meetings-of-the-global-network-of-leaders-in-inter-and-trans-disciplinary-organisations/

The names of those involved in the network can be found at: https://nitro-oceania.net/global-network/leaders-and-organisations/

2. NITRO-Oceania

NITRO-Oceania (the network of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research organisations in the Oceania region) was formed by the three Australian and one New Zealand member of the global leaders network, with Gabriele Bammer as a key driver. NITRO-Oceania was most active from its founding in 2019 to 2023, running seminars and working groups, and making a number of submissions to research policy and funding enquiries (mostly, but not exclusively, in Australia).

In 2024 NITRO-Oceania took a leading role in collaborating with the Global Alliance for Inter- and Transdisciplinarity (ITD Alliance) to establish an Oceania Regional Network, as an active regional hub of the ITD Alliance – see https://itd-alliance.org/oceania-regional-network/

For information about NITRO-Oceania and its activities, see its website at http://nitro-oceania.net

3. Population Health Xchange

Until it was disestablished in mid-2024, the Population Health Xchange (PHXchange) at the Australian National University’s National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health provided 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.

When PHXchange was originally developed, the tools on the i2S website and i2Insights blog and repository provided the key resources.

There was an active partnership between the PHXchange and Integration and Implementation Insights, with blog posts regularly contributed by PHXchange members.