Joint National Conference
The Application of Complexity Science
to Human Affairs
Michael Young Building, Open University
Campus,
Milton Keynes,
Tuesday 28th February 2006
Co-hosted by:
The Complexity Society, UK
and
The Open University Innovation, Knowledge and Development
Research Centre.
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Conference Speakers include:
Dr Katrina Wyatt
is a founder member of the Health Complexity Group and a research
fellow in the Institute for Health and Social Care, Peninsula
Medical School. Recent research projects include a prospective
2 year longitudinal study and an 18 month retrospective study
to gain an understanding of the enablers and barriers to regeneration
projects in West Cornwall. The Health Complexity Group are currently
working on a series of research projects to gain an understanding
of what the necessary conditions for transformational change in
health and social care communities are. She also holds the grant
for a research programme called ‘Folk.us’. This programme
is funded by the Department of Health and is aimed at securing
meaningful service user, patient and carer involvement in research
and development.
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Dr Robin Durie
gained MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh,
UK. He was Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Staffordshire University,
UK, for 10 years, before becoming a founder member of the Health
Complexity Group in 2002. In 2005, he also joined the Department
of Politics at Exeter University as a Lecturer.
His work in philosophy focused on the areas of time,
change and difference, on which topics he has published a number
of articles. He is a world-renowned expert on the philosophy of
Henri Bergson, having edited and translated Bergson’s book
on Einstein, Duration and Simultaneity. He is committed
to interdisciplinary research, collaborating with theoretical
physicists for the collection Time and the Instant, and
with theoretical biologists for the forthcoming collection On
Life: Essays in Philosophy and Biology. He inaugurated the
first UK PhD programme in Fine Art, Design and Philosophy, at
Staffordshire University, leading to the publication of the monograph
Face to Face: Directions in Contemporary Women’s Portraiture,
and he continues to collaborate with artists, designers and architects
on ongoing research projects.
On the basis of his collaborations with physicists
and biologists, Robin developed a research interest in the principles
of complexity theory, leading to his work with the Health Complexity
Group. He has worked on a series of research projects for the
HCG, including a major evaluation of the National Health Service
Modernisation Agency’s ‘Pursuing Perfection’
programme. He has also collaborated with colleagues on social
regeneration research in Cornwall.
Books
Face to Face: Directions in Contemporary Women’s Portraiture
(London: Scarlet Press, 1998).
Henri Bergson, Duration and Simultaneity (Editor, Co-translator,
and Introduction) (Manchester: Clinamen Press, 1999).
Time and the Instant (Editor and Introduction) (Manchester:
Clinamen Press, 2001).
Towards an Immanent Dualism: The Philosophy of Bergson
(forthcoming, 2006).
On Life: Essays in Philosophy and Biology (co-editor;
forthcoming 2007).
Articles in Refereed Journals
‘Speaking of Time: Husserl and Levinas on the Saying of
Time’, in the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
(1999), Vol. 30.
‘Splitting Time: Bergson’s Philosophical Legacy’,
in Philosophy Today, (2000) Vol. 40.
‘Does Phenomenology have a Future?’, in Radical
Philosophy (2002) No 113.
‘Immanence and Difference: Toward a Relational Ontology’,
in The Southern Journal of Philosophy (2002), Vol. LX.
‘Creativity and Life’ Review of Metaphysics
56 (December, 2002).
‘The Mathematical Basis of Bergson’s Philosophy’,
in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology,
special number on Bergson (January, 2004), Vol. 35.
‘Nature from the Perspective of Immanence’, in Pli:
The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (2004), Vol. 15.
Chapters in Edited Collections
‘Die Spur und der Rhythmus’, in Die Wiederentdeckung
der Zeit, eds. A. Gimmler., M. Sandbothe & W. Zimmerli
(Darmstadt: Primus Verlag, 1997).
‘Indication and the Awakening of Subjectivity’, in
Ethics and the Subject, ed. K. Simms (Amsterdam: Rodopi,
1997).
‘Problems in the Relation between Philosophy & Maths’,
in Virtual Mathematics, ed. S. Duffy (Manchester: Clinamen
Press, 2005).
‘Community Regeneration and Complexity’, in Complexity
and Healthcare Organization, ed. D. Kernick (Oxford: Radcliff
Medical Press, 2004).
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David Byrne
is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy in the School of Applied
Social Sciences at Durham University. He has worked as an academic
and in community development. His books include: Complexity
Theory and the Social Sciences - Routledge 1998; Social
Exclusion - Second Edition Open University Press 2005; Interpreting
Quantitative Data - Sage 2002; Understanding the Urban
- Palgrave - 2001.
Paul Stevens
is Vice President of information technology at GSK UK Pharmaceuticals.
He assumed this role in January 2001 with the merger of Glaxo
Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham.
Dr Stevens joined Glaxo as a research scientist
in 1974 and worked in Microbial Biochemistry where he helped to
develop early techniques of high-throughput screening of samples
for potential new medicines. In 1986, Dr Stevens moved into the
IT department of the commercial arm of Glaxo. Since that time
he has been involved in many aspects of IT within Manufacturing,
HR and Corporate at both a local and global level.
Dr Stevens holds a PhD in biochemistry from Brunel
University, an MSc in Biochemistry from London University and
a BSc in Pharmacology from Bradford University.
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Robert Geyer
is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics and Communications
at the University of Liverpool, Co-Director of the Centre for
Complexity Research (CCR) and a Director on the UK Complexity
Society Management Council. As CCR Co-Director, he organised the
11-14 September 2005 Complexity, Science and Society Conference
at the University of Liverpool (400 participants from 18 different
disciplines) and maintains the CCR Complexity Network (640 members
from 42 different countries). His forthcoming and recent books
include: (co-edited with Jan Bogg) Complexity, Science and
Society, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing 2007. (co-authored
with Helen Cooper and Geoff Gillian) Riding the Diabetes Rollercoaster:
A Patient and Carers Guide, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing
2007. (co-authored with Andrew MacIntosh) Integrating UK and
European Social Policy: The Complexity of Europeanisation,
Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2005. Exploring European Social
Policy. Oxford: Polity Press, 2000. (co-edited with Christine
Ingebritsen and Jonathon Moses) Globalization, Europeanization,
and the End of Scandinavian Social Democracy? London: Macmillan
2000.
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Damian Allen
is the Director of Children’s Services for Knowsley Council.
He led the Council’s successful bid for Beacon status in
Transforming Secondary Education 2003/04 and the Council was also
awarded Beacon status for Integrating Children’s Services
in 2005. He was also responsible for devising and implementing
the LEA’s successful Key Stage 4 raising attainment strategy,
the ‘Plus One Challenge’ which has contributed to
a 20% increase in GCSE results in the past 5 years.
Damian was a member of Knowsley LEA’s successful
Education Leadership Team who were awarded Public Servants of
the Year by the Public Finance magazine, in the category of ‘Education
Team of the Year 2004’.
Knowsley Council is one of the ten LEAs nationally
to be in the first wave of the DfES’ ‘Building Schools
of the Future’ which will contribute up to £150m to
rebuild and transform the borough’s secondary education
system. This is a radical transformation which will see the replacement
of the borough’s 11 current secondary schools with a local
system comprising eight new state of the art Learning Centres.
This approach was recently endorsed by the Government, which cited
it as a case study in their Education White Paper: ‘Higher
Standards, better Schools for All’.
Academically, Damian is interested in the application
of complexity theory to local government change agendas, organisational
development and ecology and in particular the notion of social
embeddedness and collaboration as a means to building intellectual
and social capital in society.
Prior to becoming a Local Authority Officer, he
was an Assistant Principal in a Sixth Form College and before
that a secondary school science teacher.
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Eve Mitleton-Kelly
is founder and Director of the Complexity Research Programme at
the London School of Economics; visiting Professor at the Open
University; Coordinator of Links with Business, Industry and Government
of the European Complex Systems Network of Excellence, Exystence;
Executive Co-ordinator of SOL-UK (London) (Society for Organisational
Learning); Member of the ONCE-CS European network; and Advisor
to European and USA organisations. EMK’s recent work has
concentrated on the implications of the theories of complexity
for organisations and specifically on strategy, IT legacy systems,
organisational learning, the emergence of new organisational forms,
the ‘design’ of organisations, post merger integration,
and the development of enabling environments. She has developed
a theory of complex social systems and an integrated methodology
using both qualitative and quantitative tools and methods. Her
first career between 1967-83, was with the British Civil Service
in the Department of Trade and Industry, where she was involved
in the formulation of policy and the negotiation of EU Directives.
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Dr Elizabeth McMillan
is a Senior Research Fellow at the Open University. A member of
IKD, a co-founder and a Director of the Open University Complexity
Science Research Centre and a co-founder and a Director of the
newly created UK Complexity Society.
Her book Complexity, Organizations and Change
(ISBN. 0-415-31447-X) published in 2004 is due out in paperback
in 2006. This is about transforming the way people think about
organizations, about their design, the way they operate and, most
importantly, the people who co-create them. Other publications
are listed on her web site: http://dpp.open.ac.uk/profiles/mcmillan-e.htm
A speaker at conferences and seminars in Europe,
Australia and the USA. She has spoken on local radio and was interviewed
on the Today programme on her research.
Elizabeth also works as a consultant and advises
businesses on how to introduce effective organisational change
using the latest ideas from complexity science. As an experienced
manager and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and
Development she is readily able to combine theory with application.
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Dr Ysanne Carlisle’s
research interests include: management of knowledge and innovation,
strategy, ethics and complexity. A member of IKD she has published
extensively and presented at conferences in the UK and Australia.
As a member of the Open Business School she has taught widely
on a range of business and management topics.
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