15/04/2019

​Complexity And Policy Studies Research and Practice for Social Good in a Complex World

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Thanks to CAPS for the opportunity to present on the utility of CECAN  ( Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus ) and, mo...
03/04/2019

The Complexities of Postindustrialism in the UK; Or, Whatever Happened to Industrial Teesside?

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As an American now living in North East England (Durham County specifically), I am overwhelemed with the significant ways in which life here...

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason (A Book Review)

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Recently I came across the work of the political economist, William Davies -- who is at Goldsmiths, University of London.  I have to say I ...
02/04/2019

p=.05 Or, the utility of messy scientific models

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THE IMPORTANCE OF MESSY MODELS I really like a recent commentary piece published by the complexity scientist, author and journalist, Ma...
22/03/2019

Sociology of air pollution

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CLICK HERE to read our new post on our health and social theory blog at Durham University. AIR QUALITY MAP OF THE UK MARCH 2019
22/02/2019

New Durham Health and Social Theory Website

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I am happy to say that the health and social theory group in the Sociology Department at Durham University has launched a new website. ...
21/02/2019

Is Public Health Ready for Complexity?

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I want to thank FUSE  -- the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health -- for the opportunity to present a brief overview of the v...
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01/02/2019

Review: The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work by Richard Baldwin

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There is an interesting new book out by Richard Baldwin, titled appropriately enough, THE GLOBOTICS UPHEAVAL: Globalization, Robotics and t...
19/01/2019

Integrating Agent-Based Modeling and Case-Based Methods, specifically QCA

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My colleagues, Peter Barbrook-Johnson and Corey Schimpf have a new article out in the International Journal of Social Research Methods . T...

NEW BLOG International Journal of Social Research Methodology

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My colleagues, Rosalind Edwards and Malcolm Williams and I, along with our social media and twitter guru, Mark Carrigan , have a great ne...
27/11/2018

Q-Step Methods Presentation on Complexity at Cardiff University

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I have posted the following information in support of my 27 November 2018 presentation on complexity methods for the Q-Step Centre, Cardi...
24/11/2018

Resilience, Complexity and Health and the Importance of Allostatic Load

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The latest edition of the Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice (Volume 24, Issue 6, December 2018) is rather exciting for me, as i...
13/11/2018

Joined the Sociology Department Durham University, UK

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For those who may not have noticed from Twitter and others postings, I switched academic locations over the summer, and I am happy to say I ...
01/06/2018

The Defiance of Global Commitment. An Interview with Brian Castellani

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The following interview was between Phil Haynes (Professor of Public Policy, Brighton University) and Brian Castellani (Professor of Soci...
24/05/2018

How Negative Social Psychologies Threaten Democractic Participation, Policy and Global Civil Society

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See my recent CECAN interview with Professor Phil Haynes on the threatening role that negative and unhealthy social psychologies play in...
15/05/2018

The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social Psychology

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--> My new book, The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social Psychology is out! Focused on recent events at the global leve...