Sociology and Complexity Science Blog
What Are Complex Systems? Ontology, Epistemology and the Social Turn at IXXI’s 20th Anniversary Conference
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry on Adult Social Care: Residents, Families, Staff and the Costs of Not Listening
What can a South African orange teach us about the entanglement of just transitions?
'Displaced Memory' at Return 02: Group Art Exhibition in Glasgow and Japan About Memory, Place and Entanglement
From Entanglement to Environmental Health: Proceedings and a First Look at a Forthcoming Book on Complexity
Which AI, for whom, and under what conditions? My Keynote at the Cynefin Exploratory: 'Balancing human & AI reasoning in a complex world' Dublin, 1-2 July, 2026
Bringing a Complex Systems Approach to WHO Europe Health Workforce Planning (A Two-Day WHO Collaborative)
Unravelling the Complexities of PolicyFrom Models to Actionable Decision-Making -- A Keynote for Polder and IAS, University of Amsterdam
How can scholars harness visual arts, media, and methods? A DRMC Visual Methods and Media Panel
Manners are the new punk!
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Keynote for the Capital City Complex Systems Symposium, February 2026 New Zealand
Walking, and the Moral Logic of British Public Life
AI Doesn't Prove God Exists — But It Does Break Some Arguments Against the Possibility
Using Chomsky's Writings to Read His Disappointing Engagement with Epstein
Are Our Global Commitments Collapsing Because of Social Psychological Strain? Yes—and America Is Just One Example
Working for Health 2030 2025 – 2026 WHO and NHS Seminar Series: Embracing Complexity: Systems Thinking for Health Workforce Strengthening
Mapping inequality in power law and exponential distributions
Using Complexity Science to (Re)think Resilience in Public Administration: Keynote at Vaasa University Public Admin Conference 2025
An Invitation to Re-Imaging Public Administration and Policy from a Social Complexity Framework
From Assemblages to Tangles - A Public Lecture at Nelson Mandela University
Social Complexity Retreat at Nelson Mandela University
Improving the resilience of health and public health systems to the impact of climate change: learning from Japan and the UK
Entangled. An art project developed for the ISCIA Seminar Series - Horizon 2055, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 32: The Unfinished Space
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 31: Getting Philosophically Real . . . a case for complex realism.
Royal College of Physicians’ report, 'A breath of fresh air: responding to the health challenges of modern air pollution'
Social Complexity Retreat based on The Atlas of Social Complexity
Peter Erdi's Two-Part Interview on The Atlas of Social Complexity
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 30: Mapping the new methodological terrain
Q&A on the impact of air pollution on mental health and brain health, from early-life to later-life
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 29: Revisiting Complex Causality
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 28: Make Love, Not Models
WHO symposium on modelling and optimizing the health and care workforce: Complexity Thinking for Equitable and Resilient Healthcare Workforces
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 27: Theme 5, Methods
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 26: Resilience and all that Jazz
Advancing a social complexity imagination to disrupt place-based health complexities -- IRSPM Conference Presentation
Air Pollution, Brain Health and Dementia. Presentation at the Scottish Air Quality Annual Seminar 2025
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 25: Economics in an unstable world
The role of a social complexity imagination in the sciences, arts and humanities
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 24: The Challenges of Applying Complexity
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 23: Governance, Politics and Technocracy
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 21: The Local and the Global: The Complexities of Place
The Atlas of Social Complexity. Chapter 22: Socio-technological life
COMPLEX-IT for health policy. The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, January 2025 Northumbria University, Newcastle.