Our  SInet Conference was held on 28th-29th September 2009 at the Novotel Northbeach Hotel, Wollongong

SInet research creates better futures for people

The SInet stands for the development of new concepts, strategies and tools that empower individuals, communities, profit and non-profit organisations and the government to improve quality of life where quality of life means material standard of living as well as personal well-being in terms of health and environment and social harmony.

The SInet aims to:

• facilitate information flow between researchers across Faculties with similar research interests
• provide a platform for sharing of ideas, expertise, networks, etc
• strengthen the position of all researchers in the area of social innovation by developing a strong network and harvest complementary competence and expertise

Building the SInet community - collaboration and innovation online

The wiki software Confluence aims to assist in the development of communities of practice across its groups and sub-groups.  Click on this link to see what Confluence is all about.  New users need to have an account set up within Confluence which can be organised via Nicola Johnson, email nicolaj@uow.edu.au

How does the SInet work?

Each participating research centre joins the network with their current projects. Through sharing of information, ideas and expertise about these projects as well as research opportunities that will develop over the coming years, SInet projects in future will not be linked to only one research centre, but to multiple groupings.

All projects within the SInet will have the final goal of empowering individuals, communities, profit and non-profit organisations and the government to improve quality of life. The image below, Scope of SInet research depicts the kind of research undertaken in the SInet.

Network configurations and infrastructure

The SInet is structured in centre and project nodes (pdf). 

Centre nodes are existing or newly formed groupings of researchers with common research interests within a discipline. Project nodes are research projects which fit into the scope of social innovation research and are undertaken by at least one SInet member or SInet centre node.

SInet Groupings