Copenhagen Health Complexity Center: Developing systems-informed methods for use in public health policy and practice

Please join us for a seminar by Dr James Nobles from Leeds Beckett University, who will present his research on “Developing systems-informed methods for use in public health policy and practice”.

Much of the systems literature, including some of our own, is hard to access for people working in policy and practice. Over several years, we have developed and adapted tools to help people understand complex problems, decide where to act and evaluate what happens. These tools include the Action Scales Model, the Qualitative Systems Exploration Model and Ripple Effects Mapping, and each are now used in the UK and internationally, including in Denmark. Getting them there owed something to luck and something to design, but mostly to understanding how the people we hoped would use them think and work.

This talk looks at what has helped and what has not. Examples include building the Action Scales Model into national guidance, setting up the Systems Evaluation Network, and a realist review whose findings proved hard to translate into practice. I will close with the Systems Collective, which reflects our current thinking and the next stage of this work.

Attendance is limited to 60 seats so please write to COMPLEX@sund.ku.dk if you plan to join us – first come, first served. We look forward to seeing you at the Copenhagen Health Complexity Center!