End of project conference
Thursday 22 September 2011
Agenda (pdf 247Kb)
Presentations
- Complex systems, tourism planning and self-organisation
– Carla Ricaurte Quijano - The world as a complex system – Doly García (pdf 381Kb)
- Public Policy Systems – Phil Haynes (pdf 483Kb)
- Systems and change in housing support: the interpersonal dynamic (pdf 181Kb)
- Cupp Complex Systems diagram (jpeg 577Kb)
- Guerrillas in the Mist: Complexity and Community University Projects (pdf 357Kb)
- Applying complexity theory to safeguarding and protecting children: a proposed study – Julia Stroud and Chris Warren-Adamson (pdf 389Kb)
Weblinks to other resource sites
- A basic definition of complex systems: www.necsi.edu/guide/study.html
- Santa Fe Institute, Complexity Research: www.santafe.edu/
- New England Complex systems Institute: www.necsi.edu/guide/
- European Complex System Society: http://css.csregistry.org/tiki-index.php
- Stockholm Resilience Centre: www.stockholmresilience.org/
- Complexity program at the LSE: www.psych.lse.ac.uk/complexity/
- A blog about complexity: http://complexityblog.com/
Systems thinking – applied to public organisations
(sometimes – but not always – referred to as Lean systems
- John Seddon and Vanguard Consultancy: www.systemsthinking.co.uk/home.asp
- The Lean Systems University: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/lean/
Videos/films
- Interview of Jim Price by Phil Haynes on Complexity and Change
- Phil Haynes inaugural lecture
- Chaos Theory on BBC4 2010 – 'The Secret Life of Chaos'
Images Networking Event – 21 March 2011
Presentations
Journals
Papers
- Warren-Adamson, Chris – The Usefulness of the Complexity Paradigm to Child and Family Practice (pdf 390Kb)
Case studies
Other reading
- Michael Quinn Patton (2011) Developmental Evaluation – Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use, NY, Guildford
