Seminar 1: What are you working on?
Seminar 1. What are you working on? The state-of-the-art of complexity method
Date: Friday 21 February 2014
The goal of the first three seminars is to survey the field of complexity methods and to address the issue of quantification and the value of qualitative methods and metaphorical approaches to complexity research. In this first seminar, we review key methodological approaches people are working on and the problems and opportunities raised by those approaches. Full AGENDA here.
Speakers
Part 1: Introductions
Prof. David Byrne (School of Social Science, Durham)
Prof. Brian Castellani (Sociology, Kent State, US)
Dr. Emma Uprichard (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick)
Part 2: Interdisciplinary Social Complexity
Perspectives from Engineering/Health
Dr. Robin Purshouse (Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, Sheffield)
Daniel Moyo (Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering, Sheffield)
Prof. Alan Brennan (School of Health & Related Research, University of Sheffield)
Perspectives from Computing/Biology
Prof. Susan Stepney (Computing, York)
Dr. Leo Caves (Biology, York)
Perspectives from Sociology
Prof. Sylivia Walby OBE (Sociology, Lancaster)