COMPLEX-IT for health policy. The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, January 2025 Northumbria University, Newcastle.

 

Thanks to Sonia Dalkin, Professor in Applied Health and Social Care Research, and her team for the chat to present at The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care 14th – 16th January 2025 Northumbria University, Newcastle.

For my chat, I presented on the value of COMPLEX-IT for policy evaluation in healthcare.

 

A QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE COMPLEX-IT WORKSHOP

COMPLEX-IT: Enabling Non-Experts to Leverage Advanced Computational Modelling for Policy Evaluation and Decision Making

 

ABSTRACT

While the complexity sciences offer a new approach to thinking about social and health data, making use of their computational methods can be considerably challenging for non-experts – particularly postgraduate students, applied researchers, policy evaluators and civil servants. There is a solution! This workshop will introduce COMPLEX-IT, a free online R-platform designed for non-experts to employ the latest developments in machine learning, data visualisation, participatory systems mapping, network analysis, simulation, data forecasting, and cluster analysis. For our workshop, we will explore a real-world data set to walk through the steps of using COMPLEX-IT and the concepts of complexity science to show how these tools can help attendees gain new insights into social and health data. The goal is for participants to leave with a new methods platform they can use in their own work.

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For those who attended or simply might be interested, here are some links to the material from the day.

CLICK HERE for a link to the PowerPoint from the Workshop.

CLICK HERE for a link to COMPLEX-IT.

CLICK HERE for a link to the dataset we explored. NOTE: The dataset is a CSV (comma separated) file, created in EXCEL. It is just a sample to function as an example. It contains several public health indicators (e.g., access to health services, fuel poverty, crime, teen pregnancies, etc) for 100 authority districts in England, UK. 

CLICK HERE for a link to PRSM, the participatory systems mapping tool.