Please join us for the eight episode of Systems Science in Public Health Podcast. The series, hosted by Professor Petra Meier, is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Our guest for episode eight is Professor Magda Cerdá - a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and …

Please join us for the seventh episode of Systems Science in Public Health Podcast. The series, hosted by Professor Petra Meier, is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Our guest for episode 7 is a Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change at the University o…

Please join us for the sixth episode of Systems Science in Public Health Podcast. The series, hosted by Professor Petra Meier, is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Our guest for episode 6 is a Professor in system dynamics at the University of Bergen, Birgit Kopainsky. Birgit a systems …

Professor Petra Meier appeared on Episode 29 of the UofG Spotlight podcast to discuss her work on economic inequalities and health outcomes and the need for a system-wide view at tackling challenges of poverty, health and sustainability. Thank you to the UofG Spotlight podcast team for allowing us to share her interview here! Listen to the UofG Spo…

Please join us for the fifth episode of Systems Science in Public Health Podcast. The series, hosted by Professor Petra Meier, is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. Our guest for episode 5 is one of the founders of modern computational sociology, Nigel Gilbert. Nigel has a Distinguished…

In this episode, Petra Meier speaks to Patricia L. Mabry - an interdisciplinary scientist who applies cutting edge methodologies (modeling and simulation, data science, network science, Artificial Intelligence) to research questions in healthcare, science of science, tobacco control, and health disparities. Read more about Patricia's work. Visit th…

In this episode, Petra Meier speaks to Robin Purshouse, who is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include modelling, analysis and optimisation for supporting decision-making. Robin is a Co-Director of the SIPHER Consortium. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow …

In this episode, Petra Meier speaks to Brian Castellani who is a Professor of Sociology at Durham University. Brian is also a co-investigator of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN). His research focuses on advancing the tools of social complexity theory and computational social science for the study of public health…

Please join us for the first episode of Systems Science in Public Health Podcast. The series, hosted by Professor Petra Meier, is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit. In our first episode, Petra is catching up with Professor Jo-An Occhipinti who is Head of the Systems Modelling, Simulatio…

Chances are that your favourite university has a nice webpage boasting how competitive the university is in the international market. Indeed, education and research are markets. But what has changed when academia became more and more commodified, when universities commercialised and financialised? In this lecture, Hans Radder tells you all about it…

Science largely rests on the integrity of scientists and that is not always a secure foundation. For some, fraud and plagiarism are an irresitable tempation on your way to fame. In this lecture, Ruud Abma analyses the infamous case of the former psychologist Diederik Stapel and methodological problems in psychology more generally.…

If science is about facts, then scientist should be clear on their definition of what ‘facts’ are. This is what historian of science Trudy Dehue argues in this lecture.Oleh Bas Cornelissen

Frank Miedema is one of the initiators of Science in Transition. This movement believes that the scientific system is in need of fundamental reform. So what is wrong with this system called 'science'? How to diagnose its symptoms and what is the cure?Oleh Bas Cornelissen

How can you make complex scientific ideas understandable for the wider public — and for scientists themselves? In this first podcast, we turn to Bas Haring, a professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Leiden University. The crux, it seems, lies in finding the good metaphors.Oleh Bas Cornelissen