5th ESRC Research Methods Festival
“Complexity Science Meets Social
Science”
PI Prof Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey
Network Coordinator, Alison Cooper
www.csrw.ac.uk
“About the Complexity Science in
the Real World Network….
CLC - Care Life Cycle, Southampton
Project
Map
ProjectsERIE
Map
- Evolution and Resilience of
Industrial Ecosystems, Surrey
ENFOLDing - Explaining and
Forecasting of Global Dynamics, UCL
London
SCID – Social Complexity of
Immigration and Diversity, Manchester
SCID
ENFOLDing
ERIE
CLC
Project Timelines
Project
CSRWn
36 months
CLC
60 months
ENFOLD
60 months
ERIE
72 months
SCID
60 months
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
Scale of Projects
(People and Finances as in Original Applications)
Project
PhD
Students
Total
Staff
PIs/Co
-Is
Researcher
PIs
PDRAs
Coordinators
Budget £
CSRW
0
1
1 or 4
0
0
1
124762
CLC
4
16
10
0
5
1
3301716
ERIE
9
13
7
1
4
1
4005856
ENFOLD 5
16
10
0
5
1
2954027
SCID
2
10
4
1
4
1
3231964
TOTAL
20
56
31
2
18
5
13618326
Aims and Objectives
1. Develop a national profile for an inter-disciplinary network
devoted to applicability of complexity theory
2. Inform policy makers and influence the debate on policy
issues with new perspectives and insights
3. Establish a creative network environment that will give rise
to conceptual advances and effective applications
4. Promote the four Complexity Science for the Real World
programmes as a unified network
5. Cultivate a cohesive relationship between the four CSRW
programmes, thus facilitating dissemination of expertise
6. Support the development of further interdisciplinary and
cross disciplinary projects
Network
“Complexity
Science Meets
Social Science”
5th ESRC Research
Methods Festival Session
Monday 2nd July 2012
15.30 – 17.00
Session Programme
Time
Item
Speaker
15.30
Introduction to session and CSRW network
Alison Cooper
15.35
‘Complexity Theory’ and the Social Science –
Systems and Models
Professor Seth
Bullock
15.55
Developing a Model of Trust in Communities
Dr Nick Shryane
16.15
Modelling Spatial and Intervention Effects from
London Riots Data
Dr Hannah Fry
Speakers will take Q&A as a panel
All
17.00
Close
Systems can be social and are
of interest to Social Scientists
Mathematical Modelling and
Complexity Theory can be
applied to and informed by
social challenges
How is this being employed to
understand the social
challenges of ‘Community
Trust’ and the ‘London Riots’?
What do these case
studies have in common?