Our members come together as collaborators to co-create research that actively works to transform society. Through inter- and transdisciplinary approaches, we challenge exclusionary practices, disrupt dominant narratives, and champion accessibility, sustainability, gender and sexual equity, and cultural belonging in the spaces where people gather, celebrate, and move. 

At the heart of TIES is a belief in research as relational and responsive, grounded in lived experience and accountable to the communities we work with. Therefore, our work is rooted in collaboration with a wide range of local, national and international partners such as communities, businesses, and policymakers. In a constant exchange between research, knowledge exchange and teaching, our work influences taught programmes through research-related teaching as well as teaching-related research.