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Particularly interested in social learning systems and communities of practice. Currently teaching and doing research. At the OU I chair Masters level courses on systems thinking in practice and environmental decision making. Also working on CADWAGO project...climate adaptation and... Read More →

PhD (Graduate) Course Leader: Systems Thinking in Research Practice, 7 – 14 July My research focus is on management and decision making on family farms.Although I appreciate the value of the various tools of neoclassical economics for informing farm management on the short-term and for commercial farms, I find they are limited in their ability to capture the... Read More →

ISSS Past President (2014-2015), International Society for the Systems SciencesProfessor of Systems, The Open University UK (OU).  He is internationally recognised for his Systems scholarship that draws on second-order cybernetics and the biology of cognition and for developing... Read More →