Warwick, Friday 20 Feb 2015[spacer height=”2px”]10.30am-5.30pm[spacer height=”1px”]Westwood Teaching Centre[spacer height=”0px”] University of Warwick[spacer height=”0px”]Westwood Campus[spacer height=”0px”]Coventry CV4 8EE[spacer height=”1px”]The Westwood Teaching Building is number 58 on this MAP. [spacer height=”1px”] The event is free but you must REGISTER – registration will open soon.
Final Agenda here, links to talks below, and Photos here.
So far in this ESRC seminar series, we have explored general approaches to complexity across different disciplines (Seminar 1), focused more close on quantitative approaches (Seminar 2), then on different qualitative approaches (Seminar 3). In this fourth seminar, we continue the conversations that have begun to emerge and focus specifically on Policy planning and applications. If we assume that complex social systems defy prediction, then how do we reconcile complexity with policy planning? In what ways might a complex social systems approach to the social be beneficial to shaping and thinking through policy processes? What problems might crop up? What opportunities does complexity offer to social policy and practice in general?
PROF. DAVID BYRNE [spacer height=”1px”](School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University)[spacer height=”1px”]Title: The implications of complexity theory for applied social science[spacer height=”20px”]PROF. LASSE GERRITS [spacer height=”1px”](Department of Political Science, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, Germany)[spacer height=”1px”]Title: On the (im)possibilities of complexity-informed policies[spacer height=”20px”]PROF. ROBERT GEYER [spacer height=”1px”](Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University[spacer height=”1px”] Title: Does pragmatism help to make complexity simple?[spacer height=”20px”]PROF. PHIL HAYNES[spacer height=”1px”](School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton)[spacer height=”1px”]Title: Policy, applications and mixed-methods: dynamics and interactions[spacer height=”20px”]MR ADAM LURY[spacer height=”1px”](Director of Well Told Story, https://sw-ke.facebook.com/DJBoyie)[spacer height=”1px”]Title: Moving from communication to conversation: When you are no longer in charge of the message (Slides coming soon!) [spacer height=”20px”]PROF. EVE MITLETON-KELLY[spacer height=”1px”](Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS and Founder and Director of Complexity Research Group London, LSE)[spacer height=”1px”]Title: The difference a complexity perspective can make to how policy makers address complex challenges[spacer height=”20px”]
Hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick.