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Cheng, X, Hu, Y, Varga, L (2022) 5G network deployment and the associated energy consumption in the UK: A complex systems’ exploration, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, 180, 121672. Link to article.

Barbrook-Johnson P, Castellani B, Hills D, Penn A, Gilbert N. Policy evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus. Evaluation. 2021;27(1):4-17. doi:10.1177/1356389020976491. Link to article.

Bicket M, Hills D, Wilkinson H, Penn A. Don’t panic: Bringing complexity thinking to UK Government evaluation guidance. Evaluation. 2021;27(1):18-31. doi:10.1177/1356389020980479. Link to article.

Cox J, Barbrook-Johnson P. How does the commissioning process hinder the uptake of complexity-appropriate evaluation? Evaluation. 2021;27(1):32-56. doi:10.1177/1356389020976157. Link to article.

Barbrook-Johnson P, Penn A. Participatory systems mapping for complex energy policy evaluation. Evaluation. 2021;27(1):57-79. doi:10.1177/1356389020976153. Link to article

Wilkinson H, Hills D, Penn A, Barbrook-Johnson P. Building a system-based Theory of Change using Participatory Systems Mapping. Evaluation. 2021;27(1):80-101. doi:10.1177/1356389020980493. Link to article.

Befani B, Elsenbroich C, Badham J. Diagnostic evaluation with simulated probabilities. Evaluation. 2021;27(1):102-115. doi:10.1177/1356389020980476. Link to article.

Schimpf C, Barbrook-Johnson P, Castellani B. Cased-based modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation. Evaluation. 2021;27(1):116-137. doi:10.1177/1356389020978490. Link to article.

Badham, Jennifer, Barbrook-Johnson, Pete, Caiado, Camila and Castellani, Brian (2021) ‘Justified Stories with Agent-Based Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning’ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 24 (1) 8. Link to article.

Barbrook-Johnson, P., Proctor, A., Giorgi, S., Phillipson, J., (2020), How do policy evaluators understand complexity?,Evaluation, Vol. 26(3) 315–332, Sage. DOI: 10.1177/1356389020930053. Link to article.

Kirsop-Taylor, N.A., Hejnowicz, A.P., (2020), Designing public agencies for 21st century water–energy–food nexus complexity: The case of Natural Resources Wales, Public Policy and Administration, 0(0) 1–21, Sage. DOI: 10.1177/0952076720921444. Link to article.

Nick Kirsop-Taylor, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Karen Scott. 2020. Four cultural narratives for managing social-ecological complexity in Public Natural Resource Management. Environmental Management 66, 419–434. Link to article.

Schimpf, C. and Castellani, B., 2020. COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and Scenario Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry. Journal of Open Research Software, 8(1), p.25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298. Link to article.

Befani, B., (2020), Quality of quality: A diagnostic approach to qualitative evaluation, Evaluation, Vol. 26(3) 333–349, Sage. DOI: 10.1177/1356389019898223. Link to article.

Castellani. B. (2020) Making the global complexity turn in population health. In Apostolopoulos, Hassmiller Lich, and Lemke’s Complex Systems and Population Health: A Primer. Oxford University Press. [Book]. Link to book.

Dister, C., R. Rajaram and B. Castellani. “Modeling Social Complexity in Infrastructures: A Case-based Approach to Improving Reliability and Resiliency.” In E. Mitleton-Kelly, A. Paraskevas, and C. Day’s (Eds) Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science: Theory & Application. Edward Elgar Publishing. [Book]

Bryce D. Stewart, Charlotte Burns, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Viviane Gravey, Bethan C. O’Leary, Kevin Hicks, Fay M. Farstad, Sue E. Hartley, (2019), Making Brexit work for the environment and livelihoods: Delivering a stakeholder informed vision for agriculture and fisheries, People and Nature, 10.1002/pan3.10054. Link to article.

Barbrook-Johnson, P., Schimpf, C., Castellani, B. (2019). Reflections On the Use of Complexity-Appropriate Computational Modeling for Public Policy Evaluation in the UK. Journal on Policy and Complex Systems, 5(1), 55-70. Link to article.

Castellani, B., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Schimpf, C. (2019). Case-based methods and agent-based modelling: bridging the divide to leverage their combined strengths. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 22(4), 403-416. Link to article.

Giabbanelli, P. J., Voinov, A. A., Castellani, B., Törnberg, P. (2019, April). Ideal, best, and emerging practices in creating artificial societies. In Proceedings of the Annual Simulation Symposium (p. 2). Society for Computer Simulation International. Link to article.

Christie, I., Gunton, R. M., Hejnowicz, A. P., (2019). Sustainability and the Common Good: Catholic social teaching and ‘Integral Ecology’ as contributions to a framework of social values for sustainability transitions, Sustainability Science,  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00691-y. Link to article.

Valerie Pattyn, Astrid Molenveld and Barbara Befani (2019), Qualitative Comparative Analysis as an Evaluation Tool: Lessons From an Application in Development Cooperation, American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 40(1) 55-74 DOI: 10.1177/1098214017710502. Link to article.

Enric Senabre Hidalgo, (2019). Adapting the scrum framework for agile project management in science: case study of a distributed research initiative. Heliyon 5 e01447. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019. e01447. Link to article.

Lippe M., Bithell M., Gotts N., Natalini D., Barbrook-Johnson P., Giupponi C., Hallier  M., Hofstede G.J., Le Page C., Matthews R.B, Schlüter. M., Smith P., Teglio A., Thellmann K., (2019). Using Agent-based modelling to simulate Social-Ecological Systems across scales, Geoinformatica (2019) 23: 269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10707-018-00337-8. Link to article.

Muffy Calder, Claire Craig, Dave Culley, Richard de Cani, Christl A. Donnelly, Rowan Douglas, Bruce Edmonds, Jonathon Gascoigne, Nigel Gilbert, Caroline Hargrove, Derwen Hinds, David C. Lane, Dervilla Mitchell, Giles Pavey, David Robertson, Bridget Rosewell, Spencer Sherwin, Mark Walport, Alan Wilson, Computational modelling for decision-making: where, why, what, who and how, Roy Soc Open Sci, Published 20 June 2018. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172096. Link to article.

A.C. Skeldon, F. Schiller, A. Yang, T. Balke-Visser, A. Penn, N. Gilbert, Agent-based modelling to predict policy outcomes: A food waste recycling example, Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 87, September 2018, Pages 85-91; < https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.05.011>. Link to article.

Penn, A.S., Moving from Overwhelming to Actionable Complexity in Population Health Policy: Can ALife help? (2018) Artificial Life 24(3) 218-219. Link to article.

Gilbert, Nigel, Ahrweiler, Petra, Barbrook-Johnson, Pete, Narasimhan, Kavin Preethi and Wilkinson, Helen (2018) ‘Computational Modelling of Public Policy: Reflections on Practice’ Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 21 (1) 14 <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/21/1/14.html>. doi: 10.18564/jasss.3669. Link to article.

RS MacKay, RJ Low, R Kenna, S Parker, Calibration with confidence: A principled method for panel assessment, Roy Soc Open Sci 4 (2017) 160760. Link to article.

Hejnowicz, A.P., Rudd, M.A. The Value Landscape in Ecosystem Services: Value, value wherefore art thou value?, Sustainability 2017, 9(5), 850; doi:10.3390/su9050850. Link to article.

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