Podcasts featuring the SIPHER Team
Listen to members of the SIPHER Team as they share insights into our work.
South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub podcast - July 2025
Prof Robin Purshouse, Lead on our Decision Support (Workstrand 7), shares how SIPHER's cutting-edge computational models are supporting government efforts to reduce health inequalities in this special edition of the South Yorkshire Digital Health Hub podcast, recorded live at the Insigneo Showcase 2025.
Catch the podcast interview (17:57–32:00)
- Listen on Spotify https://lnkd.in/dDYzytDw
- Listen on YouTube https://lnkd.in/ddmsiByE
The Experts' Expert' podcast - September 2024
Prof Nik Lomax Co-Lead on Data & System Monitoring (WS3) and Policy Microsimulation (WS5) spoke with the UK Data Service's 'The Experts' Expert' podcast to highlight our new SIPHER Synthetic Population dataset and how to get started using it in your work.
First podcast in the series about these datasets and the SIPHER Consortium.
Second podcast in the series about the new dynamic synthetic datasets recently released into the UK Data Service's collection by the SIPHER Consortium.
Systems Science in Public Health Podcast
The Systems Science in Public Health Podcast, hosted by Professor Petra Meier, is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow.
Our guest is Professor Magda Cerdá, Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Magda's research focuses on the effects that state and national drug and health policies have on substance abuse trends, and on the ways the urban context shapes violence.
Our guest is a Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change at the University of Oxford, Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson. Pete is a social scientist, economist, and complexity scientist. He uses research methods such as agent-based modelling, systems mapping, and network analysis in my applied environmental, energy, and public health research and policy analysis.
Our guest is a Professor in system dynamics at the University of Bergen, Birgit Kopainsky. Birgit is a systems thinker and modeler with a passion for learning in and about food and other social-ecological systems.
Our guest is one of the founders of modern computational sociology, Nigel Gilbert. Nigel has a Distinguished Chair in Computational Social Science at the University of Surrey. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN), and Director of the University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.
Our guest is Patricia L. Mabry, an interdisciplinary scientist who applies cutting edge methodologies (modelling and simulation, data science, network science, Artificial Intelligence) to research questions in healthcare, science of science, tobacco control, and health disparities.
Our guest is 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 the Lead for SIPHER’s Economic Evaluation & Decision Support Workstrand 7 and was at the time of recording Co-Director of the SIPHER Consortium.
Our guest is Brian Castellani, 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 questions.
Our first podcast guest is Professor Jo-An Occhipinti, Head of the Systems Modelling, Simulation and Data Science at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Australia. She is also the Managing Director of C-SART (Computer Simulation & Advanced Research Technologies) - an international alliance of centres of excellence in systems modelling to inform health and social policy.