Welcome to SEIRnet

Social and Economic Interface Research Network (SEIRnet)

The Social and Economic Interface Research Network (SEIRnet) conducts high quality applied and basic research, offers workshops and seminars, and supports PhD study.  SEIRnet research challenges current practices and thinking and looks at new ways of doing things. It recognises the need for organisations to achieve results in the short-term while balancing important societal concerns such as social inclusion, quality of life, and environmental responsibilities and as such provides tangible, sustainable and implementable outcomes.

Members of SEIRnet are committed to working with organisational partners to identify, understand and create awareness of the key challenges in fostering economic, social, environmental, organisational and individual wellbeing.  SEIRnet brings an exciting new approach to business research and research collaborations, working with its partners to co-produce knowledge and evidence-based practice.  SEIRnet operates as an organic organisation where internationally recognised researchers from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds from Monash and other leading national and international research groups come together with organisational partners to co-create leading knowledge and practice that leads to positive change.

SEIRnet is committed to working with its partners in developing innovative and evidence-based solutions which fit the organisation’s unique circumstances and generate sustainable value to the organisation, individuals and society.  Rather than imposing existing frameworks and models based on past successes, SEIRnet research adopts a systems or holistic approach to identify and solve important issues, to develop its clients’ human and social capital, and to identify the management models required to achieve social and economic progress. To this end, SEIRnet offers its services to all types of organisations, large and small, profit and not-for-profit, public and private.

SEIRnet researchers have made a significant contribution to public policy, professional practice and understanding philosophies of management, including pioneering work with the Australian Public Service on succession management and public service leadership, the development of a national organisational wellbeing index, co-development with the Cancer Council of a methodology for maximising the effectiveness of tobacco control policies, co-development with RTIO of an organisational and community development approach to facilitating Aboriginal economic development, collaboration with Brandaide Communications to create the new business venture Opticon Online Community, and co-production with the State Services Authority of the first organisational development intervention aimed at minimising the risk of bullying behaviours and increasing workplace wellbeing that incorporates a strengths-based and holistic change management approach.