News and Events

News from Members

New Complexity Masters Degree Programme

The University of Glamorgan is to offer a postgraduate programme of courses on Complexity and Leadership starting this autumn. The programme has developed a highly innovative practice based learning model whereby students will learn about the application of complexity in their business sector from university lecturers, from managers who have successfully introduced complexity principles into their organisations and from their own experiences. Students may select from the following options:

• MSc in Complexity and Leadership;
• MSC in Complexity and Leadership in Manufacturing;
• MSc in Complexity and Leadership in Public Services;
• MSc in Complexity and Leadership in Retail and Services.

Book Publications

"Complexity, Management and the Dynamics of Change: Challenges for Practice",
Author: Elizabeth McMillan.
Published by: Routledge, March 2008.
For more details: http://www.elizabethmcmillan.co.uk/page_1.html.

Forthcoming Events

• There are currently no forthcoming events.

For more complexity events: http://complexevents.blogspot.com

Previous Events 

• ESRC Research Seminar Series, Seminar 3
  Complexity: a Framework for Policy and Decision Support:
  Research, Adaptation and Learning in Social Systems,
  Cranfield Management Research Institute, Cranfield University, UK.
  09:30-17:00, 10th June 2009.
  More information available.
   
• Conflict Research Society (UK), Conference on Conflict and Complexity,
  University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
  2nd - 3rd September 2008.
  More information available.
   
• "Is complexity the new framework for management and public policy in the 21st century?"
  Complexity Society Workshop,
  Manchester Institute of Innovation Research,
  Manchester Business School, Manchester, UK.
  26th June 2008 10am - 3pm.
  Followed by AGM. Click here for more details on the event and paper downloads.
   
• Managing Complexity and Change,
  Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  12th May 2008.
  More information available.
   
• Complexity, Management and Change Workshop,
  Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
  30th April 2008.
  More information available.
   
• The Quest for Organisational Health: A Complexity Science
  Approach to Healthy Social Systems,
  Oxford Brookes University, UK.
  13th November 2007.
  More information available.
   
• ECCS’07 European Conference on Complex Systems,
  Dresden,
  Germany.
  1-5th October 2007.
  For more information visit: http://www.trafficforum.org/dresden
   
• Summer School in Complexity Science organised by Imperial College, London,
  Wye College, Kent, UK.
  8–17th July 2007.
  More information available.
   
• Becon 2007 Conference, The second International Conference on Built Environment Complexity, “Embracing complexity thinking in built environment”. In conjunction with CIB World Congress, Cape Town, South Africa.
  21-25th May 2007.
  For full details, including submission of abstracts and conference themes: http://www.liv.ac.uk/~halim/becon.htm
   
• EURAM Conference 2007,
  Call for Papers Track: Towards a complexity science-based
  theory of geographical clusters,
  Paris, France.
  16-19th May 2007.
  For more information visit: www.euram2007.org
   
• Meeting of the Complexity Society,
  “Complexity and Creative Destruction”,
  Cranfield University Campus,
  24th April 2007.
  More information available.
   
• EPSRC Taught course for Researchers,
  on Complex Social Systems,
  London School of Economics and Political Science.
  20-28th March 2007.
  More information available.
   
• International Conference on Design and Public Policy; Markets for Congestion and Carbon Trading,
  University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK.
  11–12th January 2007.
  For more information visit: http://www.essex.ac.uk/eccc/
   
• Plexus Institute: Conference,
  Creating Interdisciplinary Cultures: Insights from
  Complexity Science & Relationship Centered Care,
  Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
  18-19th November 2006.
  For more information visit: www.plexusinstitute.org
   
• Embracing Complexity in Science & Society,
  A taught course for researchers in the built environment,
  University of Liverpool.
  6-10th November 2006.
  More information available.
   
• Complexity Science for Beginners (Short Course),
  Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, UK.
  4–8th September 2006 and 25–29th September 2006.
  For more information visit http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sims/mem/short_courses/
  complexity_science.htm
   
• FREE Complexity Workshops at the Open University,
  Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK.
  26th and 28th September 2006.
  More information available.
   
• European Conference on Complex Systems 2006 (ECCS 06),
  Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK.
  25-29th September 2006.
  For more information visit: http://complexsystems.lri.fr/
   
• Joint National Conference - The Application of Complexity Science to Human Affairs, hosted by The Complexity Society and The Open University Innovation, Knowledge and Development Research Centre at the Open University Campus, Milton Keynes.
  28th February 2006
   
• Organisations, Innovation and Complexity: New Perspectives on the Knowledge Economy, organised at the University of Manchester jointly by the ESRC NEXSUS Network and by the ESRC Centre for Research in Innovation and Competition (CRIC).
  9-10th September 2004