2023 Annual Conference
THEME: Health and Social Care
VENUE: The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton
DATE: Thursday, March 30th – Friday, March 31st
Conference Programme
VENUE: The National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton
DATE: Thursday, March 30th – Friday, March 31st
Presentation Summaries and Abstracts
Thursday, March 30th (am):
Getting started with System Dynamics – Concepts and applications.
Kim Warren (Strategy Dynamics)
Presentation
Thursday, March 30th (pm):
System Dynamics in healthcare: a new approach to generic modelling
Prof. Sally Brailsford and co-authors (University of Southampton)
Managers and clinicians trust models that they were actively involved in developing, but do not necessarily trust models developed for other settings. This talk presents a new approach to tackling the ‘not invented here’ problem with healthcare models.
Presentation
Understanding Demand and Capacity of Hospital Care Using System Dynamics
Dr Hugo Herrera (NHS) and Haeshiya Sivakumaran (DAS)
Presentation
COVID-19 post-pandemic tourism recovery in small islands
Yunfei Gu and co-authors (University of Southampton)
Under the impact of COVID-19, small islands have suffered strongly in terms of tourism. Possible recovery strategies are tested using a behavioural simulation.
Presentation
Blood collection in England: understanding and optimising donor flow
Emily Baldwin PhD, Senior Insight Analyst, Planning, Insight & Transformation, NHS Blood and Transplant
Presentation
Student/New to SD presentations and Prize Award
Rethinking the Food Waste Hierarchy: Lessons from Modelling the Food-Energy-Water-Carbon Nexus in Urban Circular Economies (Case of Bristol, UK)
Ali Parsa, Coventry University
Presentation
Friday, March 31st:
Thinking about Learning to Think?
Douglas McKelvie, Modelling and Simulation, Symmetric Scenarios
Presentation
Round table: SD within Healthcare and the NHS
Embedding SD from within the NHS
Practitioner’s Lessons on SD in the Health and Care Sector
Networking