Current research
The Life of Work
Research on how work moves, changes, and continues through people and systems.
↗Research on interaction and change
We study what
happens next.
People create work, meaning, and ways of leading. Then those things meet other people, systems, and time.
01 / Discover the institute
A place for ideas
to be studied.
TISIC is an independent research institute for the study of interaction and change.
It gives original ideas room to grow through research, study, writing, and shared learning. We look at what happens after people create something. How does it move? What changes it? What stays? What continues?
The institute is led by Dr. Liz Núñez and built with a team of people who bring different fields, questions, and ways of seeing.
02 / Research programs
Different subjects.
One deeper question.
What happens to the things people create after they start moving through the world?
Research program
The Life of Meaning
Previously developed as Communication Identity ScienceResearch on how meaning forms, moves, changes, and becomes part of how people understand themselves and one another.
↗Future research
The Life of Leadership
This program is not yet activeA future program on what leadership becomes through people, choices, expectations, and systems.
↗03 / Current focus
Work doesn't stop
when it's assigned.
The Life of Work studies how work moves, changes, and continues through people and systems.
WORK
MOVES
CHANGES
WORK
Work passes from person to person. It meets tools, systems, limits, habits, and judgment. Each interaction can affect what the work becomes.
The program grows through observation, research, field learning, and continued testing. Early ideas are named as early ideas. We don't present them as final answers before the research supports them.
04 / Ideas and publications
Research shared
as it grows.
TISIC shares work at different stages. We will be clear about what is an early idea, what is being studied, and what the research supports.
Studies
Focused research into a question, pattern, or part of a program.
Research Notes
Early observations, ideas, and questions worth following.
Models and Maps
Clear ways to see how interaction and change may be working.
Books
Longer work that brings research, ideas, and learning together.
Next public presentation
When Images Become Natural: Repetition and the Shaping of Expressive Expectation
Dr. Liz Núñez, Founder and Research Lead, will present work from TISIC’s Life of Meaning research program.
Eleventh International Conference on Communication & Media Studies
1–2 October 2026 · Nanyang Technological University · Singapore
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1–2 October 2026 · Nanyang Technological University · Singapore
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