Thursday, January 17, 2019

Richard Sandbrook's place

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My colleague Chris Blackmore sent me news of this website today. We were not aware of its existence but can see it does a good job of honori...
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Why universities are failing 6. New assessments

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Aditya Chakrabortty has produced a compelling article: ' Mis-sold, expensive and overhyped: why our universities are a con'.  He ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

Peter Checkland's last keynote address

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Peter tells me that his Keynote at the 60th Anniversary Conference of the OR Society (UK) will be his last ever.  At 87 I guess that is fai...

What do our pets contribute to the Anthropocene?

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Listen to this discussion and find out some of the systemic implications of keeping pets.  Population control enthusiasts may want to bring...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Myopic understandings of leadership and its functioning are pervasive

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Commentaries and reactions to the recent failed internal 'coup' within the ruling coalition government in Australia makes it all too...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Action on air pollution with EU support not fast enough - what will it be like post-Brexit?

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A new study shows very strong correlations between changes in the heart structure and air pollution: "Air pollution is linked to cha...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

A systemic language/languaging to talk about and respond to climate change

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We already do a lot of talking and languaging more generally about climate change.  We will do a lot more. That is why we have to move to a...

The rise of gluten sensitivity - an emergent, systemic problem

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As someone who has gluten sensitivity I experience the phenomenon as real - but it is complex to manage and deal with socially, as this exce...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

On bullied universities speaking truth to power

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Jonathan Wolff in his Guardian article yesterday " Britain’s bullied universities should be speaking truth to power" raises some...

Systemic perspectives on the Murray-Darling Basin

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This part photo-essay prepared by the Guardian Australia   is worth exploring.  The invitation by the authors is to:   "Follow our 30...

Enhancing Systems Thinking in Practice at the Workplace

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Findings from research made available . "The eSTEeM project was an 18-month systemic inquiry beginning January 2014 initiated by a c...
Monday, April 09, 2018

Teething problems with apprenticeships?

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According to an article today on Wonkhe - marking the first year of apprenticeships - some systemic issues are emerging: "Appy birt...
Friday, April 06, 2018

The gathering systemic failure of the nation state

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You know something's amiss when authors on both sides of the globe write about the same set of phenomena only days apart.  The first to ...
Wednesday, April 04, 2018

The systemic implications of algorithms

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Virginia Eubanks , a professor of political science at the University at Albany in upstate New York is the author of several books that se...
Thursday, March 08, 2018

Taking Steven Pinker to task

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Good on George Monbiot for deflating the celebrity bubble that has grown around Steven Pinker's work. 'Rather than using primary ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018

More on the systemic failings of universities/H.E.

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From a despondent Peter Scott in an article today called:   ' Don’t let this university wrecking government masquerade as reformers...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Duality, Dualism, Duelling and Brexit

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Ed Straw and I have had an essay published on Open Democracy which explores the systemic implications of the current 'Brexit Mess' ...

Paul Mason provides a systemic account of 'fake news'

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British commentator and radio personality Paul Mason uses a form of modified system dynamics modelling to analyse and explain  the systemi...
Monday, February 19, 2018

New on-line taster course on systems thinking

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Colleagues at the Institute for Sustainable Futures (university of Technology, Sydney) have advised:   "that the first module of t...

Systemic Design

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Ben Sweeting gave a plenary presentation at the Relating Systems Thinking and Design conference in Oslo, in October 2017, on Cybernetics,...