Upcoming Events
 

 
"Complexity & Collaboration"
 
A 5-day training course @ Schumacher College
 
Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly
 
11-15 June, 2012
 
Further details
 
 
 
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Complexity Group Research Activities
 

   ESRC Complexity Research Seminar Series
   
 

LSE Complexity Group is leading the seminar series with King’s College London, Lancaster, Cranfield, the Open University and Oxford Brookes. The seminar series aims to bring together UK and EU policy makers and international leading researchers, across disciplines, to explore the application of complexity theory to public and business policy. More...

     
 
 
SOCIONICAL Project  
   

This is a socio-technical project focusing on Ambient Intelligence- based smart environments in transportation and  emergency or disaster. LSE Complexity Group is one of the main partners in this EU project. The project is funded by FET (Future Emerging Technologies). More...

 
 
 
 
SOCIONICAL App, Policy Briefs and Newsletter
   
Visualisation of the Lord Mayor's Show procession on 12 November 2012, using data from the  Socionical app (S-app). The app and visualisation were developed by Passau University and ETH Zurich and all arrangements for the trial of the S-app were made by LSE working with the Pageant Master, who organises the Show, and all the relevant emergency services. Further information will be provided shortly. Link to Socionical App, Policy Briefs and Newsletter
 
 
 
ESRC Report on Corporate Governance
Complexity Group Projects 1997 - 2008
 
 
Seminar Series for 2009-2010 Academic Year
 
 
 
New Books and Articles
 
>> "A New Synthesis of Public Administration Serving in the 21st Century" by Jocelyne Bourgon
 
Visit the New Synthesis World website:
 
 
>> "Moving forward with Complexity"
 
 
Includes Paper by Prof. E. Mitleton-Kelly: 2. IDENTIFYING THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM-SPACE AND CO-CREATING AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT
 
Table of contents
 
>> "The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management"
 
The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management is the first substantive scholarly work at the intersection of complexity science and management studies. Edited and written by internationally respected scholars, the Handbook will be the definitive reference source for understanding the implications of complexity science for management research and practice.

Published in March 2011.

 

 
>> "Corporate Governance & Complexity Theory"
     
 
 
>> "Complex Systems and Evolutionary Perspectives of Organisations: The Application of Complexity Theory to Organisations" Ed. by E. Mitleton-Kelly, appears at #4 in the rankings of most referenced books in E:CO after Stuart Kauffman (Nos 1 & 3) and John Holland
 
>> "A Complexity Theory Approach to Sustainability: A Longitudinal Study in Two London NHS Hospitals" by Eve Mitleton-Kelly, in the Learning Organization: An International Journal, Jan 2011
 
>> "Science's First Mistake" by Prof. Ian Angell and Dionysios Demetis
 
 
 
Other news and activities
 
>> Public Evening Talk, Philip Ball - ‘2011 and all that: the case for treating society as a complex system’
 
Herschel Room, Institute of Physics, 76 Portland Place, London, W1B 1NT
    
28th May 2012 at 6pm
 
>> European Conference on Complex Systems (ECCS ‘12)
     Brussels, 3-7 September 2012
 
 
 
Complexity Community Activities
 
 
 
Video links to ESRC seminars:
 
   
  Recent Events
 

  >> Public lecture on synthesis of public administration, Mme Jocelyne Bourgon
   
  >> Modelling seminar, Ugur Bilge
   
  >> Seminar on leadership and complexity, Sue Richards and Lynne Sedgmore
   
  >> Introduction to Complexity Theory, Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly @ Suffolk County Council
   
  >> Other presentations by Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar 6
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar 5
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar 4
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar 3
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar 2
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar 1
   
  >> ESRC Complexity Seminar Outputs