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An innovative research network is hoping to improve understanding of the processes of change that are impacting on people and places across the country and affecting the quality of life for all Australians.
UQ Professor Bob Stimson is heading the new Australian Research Council Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science (SISS), which aims to address significant challenges facing communities, businesses and governments.
“The new Network will help us understand the nature, performance and operation of people, places and the economy,” Professor Stimson said.
“In recent years, there has been a great advance in spatial information technology enabling us to integrate diverse data sets and analyse socio-economic phenomena in a space and place context.
“The Network will take advantage of those incredible advances to development by providing hard evidence that will inform policy and planning.”
The Network has attracted more than 190 individual participants in 19 Australian universities, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
It has two international affiliates – the Centre for Spatially Integrated Social Science at the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London.
