Help shape the next decade of small islands research and community.
Access the member survey. Deadline: 30 September 2026.
ISISA exists for its members, but when you’re spread across every ocean, time zone, and discipline, it’s not always easy to know what you truly think. That’s why we’re launching a new, fully anonymous member survey, and we need your honest feedback.
Whether you’re a student, a tenured professor, or an independent researcher, whether you’ve been to one conference or to ten, your perspective is essential. All ISISA members (including all delegates at the recent Islands of the World conference in Jeaundo, South Korea) are invited to take the survey.
What will we ask?
The survey has six short sections and takes 10–15 minutes to complete. Most questions are checkboxes or ratings, with room for your stories at the end. All questions are optional, so you only need to answer what you want. Here’s what we cover:
Section 1: Background.
Section 2: Mission and Governance. What is the purpose of ISISA? What should its focus be?
Section 3: Conferences. Format preferences, what you value most, and what factors influence your decision to attend conferences.
Section 4: Year-Round Activities
Section 5: Diversity and Inclusion. Whether you feel represented, welcomed, and supported, and where we can do better.
Section 6: Open Feedback.
Why now?
This survey builds on a similar exercise led by then-President Godfrey Baldacchino in 2015. Many suggestions from that survey contributed to the ISISA we have today. Now we want to update that roadmap for a new era, and for a membership that has grown more diverse and globally distributed than ever.
ISISA’s new Executive Committee has initiated this survey to understand:
- What is working, and what is not
- What ISISA is getting right, and what could be improved
- What you need, hope for, and worry about.
The Executive Committee will use the results of the survey to produce a report that will be published and shared with the membership.
Privacy
All responses are completely anonymous. We do not collect emails, IP addresses, or names. The Executive Committee will see only aggregated data, and we will publish a full report of themes and actions, not individual answers. You can skip any question or select ‘Prefer not to say’ at any time.
The deadline for completing the survey is 30 September. Take the survey now.
We look forward to hearing from you, and to building a stronger, responsive, and more vibrant ISISA together.
Best regards,
Adam Grydehøj
President, International Small Islands Studies Association
Professor, School of Foreign Languages, South China University of Technology
agrydehoj@islanddynamics.org