About South Australian Policy Online
Established in 2004, South Australian Policy Online is an interactive website linking researchers and public policy makers in South Australia. SAPO is a collaborative initiative of these organizations:
SAPO aims to increase the accessibility of research resources inclding publications, events and project information and news and opinion pieces amongst policy makers as well as researchers within the university, community and industry sectors. Material is updated weekly and a free e-newsletter is sent fortnighly to subscribers informing them of recent updates. Subscription to the newsletter is available here.
SAPO contains four key sections: publications; resources; events and news and opinion.
The publications section allows researchers to keep abreast of new research across a wide range of fields by providing a single gateway to policy reports, conference papers and research articles generated by over fifty South Australian research centres, institutes and other organizations. This material covers a wide variety of topics ranging from science and technology to social inclusion and poverty, and has an almost exclusively South Australian focus. The SAPO publications archive dates back to 2000, and currently contains over 550 publications.
The resources section contains information about projects administred by the three state universities and funded by the Australia Research Council (ARC) and the National Medical Health Research Council (NHMRC). It also lists individual researchers and research organisations across the three universities. The resources section further incorporates a policy tools section which provides access to international, national and state web based resources on best practice approaches to policy development, policy analysis and performance measurement and evaluation.
SAPO provides a calendar of South Australian research and policy events including conferences, seminars and workshops.
SAPO news and Opinion features articles on current research developments and projects taking place across the three state universities as well as featuring write ups by our states best researchers on topical South Australian public policy issues through the recently established "South Australian Policy Challenges Series."
SAPO welcomes information about upcoming events as well as news stories. Recently released publications for posting on SAPO is also encouraged. Please refer to the SAPO contributors policy for further information.
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