Research units A-Z

Article

• Wijermans, N., Scholz, G., Chappin, E., Heppenstall, A. , Filatova, T., Polhill, J. G., Semeniuk, C. and Stöppler, F. (2023) Agent decision-making: the elephant in the room: enabling the justification of decision model fit in social-environmental models. Environmental Modelling and Software, 170, 105850.(doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105850)

• Antosz, P. et al. (2023) What do you want theory for? A pragmatic analysis of the roles of “theory” in agent-based modelling.  Environmental Modelling and Software, (doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105802) (Early Online Publication)

• Hassannezhad, M., Gogarty, M., Hill OConnor, C. , Cox, J., Meier, P. S.  and Purshouse, R. C. (2023) A cybernetic participatory approach for policy system of systems mapping: Case study of Inclusive Economies. Futures, 152, 103200. (doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2023.103200)

• Such, E. (2023) Framing the wider determinants of health: Reflections and learning from a knowledge mobilisation exercise with an English local authority Public Health in Practice  (doi.org/10.1016/j.puhip.2023.100410)

• Such, E. (2023) Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England Evidence & Policy, (doi:10.1332/174426421X16848470383584)

• Höhn, A. et al. (2023) Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220435)

• Brown A. (2023) Economic policy makers need to take health seriously BMJ Editorial 381 :p1164  (doi:10.1136/bmj.p1164)

• Breeze,P. R. et al. (2023) Guidance on the use of complex systems models for economic evaluations of public health interventions. Health Economics, (doi: 10.1002/hec.4681)

• Franklin, R. S. et al. (2023) Making space in geographical analysis. Geographical Analysis, 55(2), pp. 325-341. (doi: 10.1111/gean.12325)

• Meier, P., Katikireddi, SV., Smith, K. (2023) Bold action is needed to strengthen primary prevention British Medical Journal,  (doi: 10.1136/bmj.p595)

• Hill O’Connor, C. , Smith, K., Hughes, C., Meier, P.  and Purshouse, R. (2023) Operationalising inclusive growth: can malleable ideas survive metricised governance? Public Administration (doi: 10.1111/padm.12916)  

• Kelly-Irving, M., Ball, W. P., Bambra, C., Delpierre, C., Dundas, R. , Lynch, J., McCartney, G.  and Smith, K. (2023) Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research. Critical Public Health, (doi: 10.1080/09581596.2022.2036701)

• Hill O'Connor, C., Smith, K. and Stewart, E. (2023) Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations. Policy and Politics, (doi:10.1332/030557321X16698031794569)

Conference Proceeding - Output

• Johnson, V., Duro, J.A. , Kadirkamanathan, V and Purshouse, R.C. (2023) A distributed multi-disciplinary design optimization benchmark test suite with constraints and multiple conflicting objectives, GECCO ’23 Companion: Proceedings of the Companion Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation,  Lisbon, Portugal Jul 2023 (doi.org/10.1145/3583133.3596414)

• Johnson, V., Duro, J.A. , Kadirkamanathan, V and Purshouse, R.C. (2023) A scalable test suite for bi-objective multidisciplinary optimization, Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization Conference (EMO) Leiden, The Netherlands, March 2023, (doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27250-9_23)

Article

• Ralston R, Smith K, Hill O’Connor C, Brown A. (2022) Levelling up the UK: is the government serious about reducing regional inequalities in health? BMJ doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-070589 

• Brand-Correa, L., Brook, A., Büchs, M., Meier, P. , Naik, Y. and O’Neill, D. W. (2022) Economics for people and planet – moving beyond the neoclassical paradigm. Lancet Planetary Health, (doi: 10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00063-8) 

• Such, E., Smith, K., Woods, H. and Meier, P.  (2022) Governance of intersectoral collaborations for population health and to reduce health inequalities in high-income countries: a complexity-informed systematic review. International Journal of Health Policy and Management, (doi: 10.34172/IJHPM.2022.6550)

• Wu, G., Heppenstall, A. , Meier, P. , Purshouse, R. and Lomax, N. (2022) A synthetic population dataset for estimating small area health and socio-economic outcomes in Great Britain. Scientific Data, (doi: 10.1038/s41597-022-01124-9)

Book Chapter

• Hill O'Connor, C. , Gavens, L., Chedgzoy, D. and Gogarty, M. (2022) Co-producing policy relevant research In: Vorley, T., Rahman, S. A., Tuckerman, L. and Wallace, P. (eds.) How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research: The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 73-82. ISBN 9781800378957 (doi: 10.4337/9781800378964.00013)

Conference Proceeding - Output 

• Johnson, V., Duro, J.A. , Kadirkamanathan, V and Purshouse, R.C.  Toward scalable benchmark problems for multi-objective multidisciplinary optimization, 2022 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI), Singapore, Dec 2022, pp. 133-140, (doi:10.1109/SSCI51031.2022.10022207)

Article

• Naik, Y., Brook, A., Perraton, J. and Meier, P.  (2021) Fiscal and monetary policies: the cutting edge of advocacy and research on population health and climate change. Perspectives in Public Health, (doi: 10.1177/17579139211059983)

• Aburto, JM., Kashyap, R., Scholey, J., Angus, C., Ermisch, J., Mills, MC., Beam Dowd, J. (2021) Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, (doi: 10.1136/jech-2020-215505)

• Brook, A., Hearty, W., McCartney, G., Naik, Y., Meier, P., Thompson, H., Donaghy, G. (2021) Systematic review of studies examining the causal relationship between national aggregate economic activity and population health outcomes, including health inequalities. PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021227686.

• Hassannezhad, M., Gogarty, M., Hill O’Connor, C., Cox, J., Meier, PS., Purshouse, R. (2021) A Cybernetic Participatory Approach for Whole-Systems Modelling and Analysis, with Application to Inclusive Economies. Research Report TechRxiv. January 27, 2021 DOI: 10.36227/techrxiv.13635059.v1

• McGill, E. et al. (2021) Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: a research methods review. Social Science and Medicine (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.113697)

Book

• Bambra, C., Lynch, J., Smith, KE. (2021) The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities. Bristol, UK: Policy Press. 120 p. (doi.org/10.51952/9781447361251)

Article

• Angus C. (2020) Visualising the spread of COVID-19 across England. People, Place and Policy, 14(3): 294-296. (doi: 10.3351/ppp.2020.4894678366)

• Bambra C, Riordan R, Ford J, Matthews F. (2020) The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74:964-968. (doi.org/10.1136/jech-2020-214401)

• Barton, C. M. et al. (2020) Call for transparency of COVID-19 models. Science, 368(6490), pp. 482-483. (doi: 10.1126/science.abb8637) 

• Collyer T, Smith K. (2020) An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: “How is this all getting done in silos, and why?” Social Science & Medicine, 264, (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113330.)

Article

• Meier, P. et al. (2019) The SIPHER Consortium: introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research. Wellcome Open Research, (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15534.1)