Chris Thomsen, Executive Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS), and Vijoy Abraham, Academic Technology Specialist of IRiSS, gave an overview of IRiSS and the range of projects they are supporting and directing to a group of 17 at Wallenberg Hall's December Brown Bag lunch. From using pmwiki in Professor Michael Tomz's Correlates of War project to the trend data and customized analyses available from The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, IRiSS is breaking new ground in a variety of forms of vertical and horizontal collaboration and the infrastructures needed to support innovations in social science research.
