The conference discussed and debated the diverse benefits and difficulties of the international mobility of researchers and explored how research related policies, networks, institutions and bodies could best support and harness the benefits. Stemming from the current ARC Discovery project called Moving Ideas: Mobile Policies, Researchers and Connections in the Social Sciences and Humanities - Australia in the Global Context, the conference brought together diverse stakeholders, commentators, researchers from various disciplines and levels of seniority, representatives from the Australian Learned Academies, the Australian Research Council and state and commonwealth governments. This report's main aim is to provide a collation of the policy considerations that emerged from the conference and some of the thinking that lay behind them. Selected full papers are available in the journal Around the Globe, Vol 5, No 1, 2009.