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The Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) is an applied interdisciplinary research Institute that undertakes advanced research into key issues facing Australia and the region. The Institute is organized in terms of seven research programs, each led by a Program Director appointed at Professorial or Associate Professorial level. The Institute has over 100 research staff and 10 professorial staff with PhD backgrounds in criminology, psychology, sociology, demography, economics, statistics, geography, social policy and political science.
The Institute also houses the ARC Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science, the Queensland Research Centre of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), the Queensland node of the Australian Social Science Data Archive, the Australian Qualitative Data Archive and the UQ node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security. ISSR has some of the most advanced social science research infrastructure in the country, including a commercial survey research facility, a performance computing environment for data management, analysis and visualization, and an extensive spatial and GIS analysis capability. The Institute includes a number of Australia’s leading researchers in quantitative and spatial applied social science, and qualitative social science methodology and has strong connections to cognate centres and institutes in Europe and North America.
Major government clients and industry partners include the Australian Federal Police, DEEWR, FaHCSIA, DIAC and DOHA. ISSR also has research partnerships, joint appointments and other linkages to the SBS, Health Sciences, Science, and Engineering faculties at UQ, and with CSIRO.
There are major research groups and projects in the following areas:
- Social and economic aspects of educational performance and educational outcomes
- Employment and Labour market analyses
- Urban and Regional Development
- Housing studies and housing policy
- Policing, crime prevention, juvenile and adult offending
- International peacekeeping operations and national security initiatives
- Peace and conflict studies in the Asia-Pacific
- Social and economic wellbeing, inequality and advantage/disadvantage
- Social aspects of environment and climate change
- Social aspects of health
- Demographic and social changes in families and households
- Survey research methods
- Applied statistics and data analysis
- Spatial modelling and geographic information systems
- Management and analysis of large and complex datasets
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