Centre for Policy Modelling

• The Centre for Policy Modelling is now independent of the MMU · 19 August 2026
• Discussion paper: Some questions and alternative hypotheses about the direction of thought from belief to action choice or vice versa · 16 May 2019
• In press: Using agent-based simulation to inform policy – what could possibly go wrong? · 9 May 2019
• Hot off the press... Shaheen's Thesis: "Topic Discovery from Textual Data" · 18 February 2019
• Introduction to Special issue on "Simulation Models of Ethnocentrism and Diversity" published · 13 February 2019

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• OR Society Simulation SIG workshop on: "Don't Ignore the Qualitative, Stupid! Why Qualitative Data Matters in Simulations", 27th May 2020, Southampton · 4 March 2020
• Workshop@iEMS2020 on "New Tools or New Research Culture? Towards an Integration First approach to modelling social-environmental systems" · 17 February 2020
• CfA - BIGSSS Computational Social Science Summer School on Social Cohesion, July 6-17, 2020 · 16 January 2020
• 3rd Workshop Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence using Social Simulation, 28-29 May 2020, Southampton, UK · 13 January 2020

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• A Simulation of Arab Spring Protests Informed by Qualitative Evidence - first version

  Joint work with Stephanie Dornschneider to learn about how to bridge between a qualitative analysis of narrative data and a simulation design.

• Lamest Model

  The Labour Markets and Ethnic Segmentation (LaMESt) Model is a model of a simplified labour market, where only jobs of the lowest skill level are considered. Immigrants of two different ethnicities (“Latino”, “Asian”) compete with a majority (“White”) and minority (“Black”) native population for these jobs. This model has been developed within the research project Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity

• DiDIY Factory Model

  The DiDIY Factory Model extends the Model of Making to an application in work and organisation. It models an abstract factory with supervisors, workers, machines and incoming jobs, requesting (sequences of) tasks to be performed. The purpose of this model is to investigate the impact Digital Do-It-Yourself (DiDIY) could have on the domain of work and organisation.

• A Model of Social and Cognitive Coherence

  A model which combines changing social network and beliefs within a Coherency framework..

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19 August 2026

OR Society Simulation SIG workshop on: "Don't Ignore the Qualitative, Stupid! Why Qualitative Data Matters in Simulations", 27th May 2020, Southampton

4 March 2020

Workshop@iEMS2020 on "New Tools or New Research Culture? Towards an Integration First approach to modelling social-environmental systems"

17 February 2020

3rd Workshop Integrating Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence using Social Simulation, 28-29 May 2020, Southampton, UK

13 January 2020