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Gerald Midgley is affiliated with the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on decision sciences, with significant work in management science and operations research. Their expertise extends to related subfields including sociology and political science, management of technology and innovation, artificial intelligence, and general health professions.

The research topics covered by Midgley include:

  • Complex Systems and Decision Making
  • Cognitive Science and Mapping
  • Information Systems Theories and Implementation
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
  • Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Facility Location and Emergency Management
  • Community Health and Development

Midgley has published extensively, with a frequent presence in the following venues:

  • Systems Research and Behavioral Science
  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Journal of Systems Thinking
  • Palgrave Communications
  • Journal of the Operational Research Society

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Midgley include:

  • "A systems perspective on systemic innovation," 2021, Systems Research and Behavioral Science
  • "Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened?" 2020, Palgrave Communications
  • "Operational Research: methods and applications," 2023, Journal of the Operational Research Society
  • "Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding," 2020, European Journal of Operational Research
  • "The Four Waves of Systems Thinking," 2023, Journal of Systems Thinking

Frequent collaborators in Gerald Midgley's work include Erik Lindhult, Amanda Gregory, Gabriele Bammer, Michael O'Rourke, and Deborah O'Connell. These coauthors have contributed to multiple publications with Midgley, reflecting a collaborative and interdisciplinary research approach.

Best Publications

  • Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice

    Gerald Midgley

  • Ten essentials for action-oriented and second order energy transitions, transformations and climate change research

    Ioan Fazey;Niko Schäpke;Guido Caniglia;James Patterson

  • The theory and practice of boundary critique: developing housing services for older people

    Gerald Midgley;Isaac Munlo;Mandy Brown

  • Systemic Intervention for Public Health

    Gerald Midgley

  • The sacred and profane in critical systems thinking

    Gerald Midgley

  • Science as Systemic Intervention: Some Implications of Systems Thinking and Complexity for the Philosophy of Science

    Gerald Midgley

  • Towards a new framework for evaluating systemic problem structuring methods

    Gerald Midgley;Robert Y. Cavana;John Brocklesby;Jeff L. Foote

  • Pluralism and the legitimation of systems science

    Gerald Midgley

  • Expertise in research integration and implementation for tackling complex problems: when is it needed, where can it be found and how can it be strengthened?

    Gabriele Bammer;Gabriele Bammer;Michael O’Rourke;Deborah O’Connell;Linda Neuhauser

  • Systems thinking for evaluation

    Gerald Midgley

  • What Is This Thing Called CST

    Gerald Midgley

  • Dealing with coercion: Critical Systems Heuristics and beyond

    Gerald Midgley

  • Theoretical Pluralism in Systemic Action Research

    Gerald Midgley

  • What is Community Operational Research

    Gerald Midgley;Michael P. Johnson;George Chichirau

  • Community operational research : OR and systems thinking for community development

    Gerald Midgley;Alejandro Ochoa-Arias

  • Stakeholder identification and engagement in problem structuring interventions

    Amanda J. Gregory;Jonathan P. Atkins;Gerald Midgley;Anthony M. Hodgson

  • Developing the methodology of TSI: From the oblique use of methods to creative design

    Gerald Midgley

  • Systemic evaluation: a participative, multi-method approach

    Alan Boyd;Ted Geerling;Wendy J. Gregory;Carolyn Kagan

  • A systems perspective on systemic innovation

    Gerald Midgley;Erik Lindhult

  • Broadening the boundaries: an application of critical systems thinking to IS planning in Colombia

    José-Rodrigo Córdoba;Gerald Midgley

  • Systems Thinking: Volume I General Systems Theory, Cybernetics and Complexity

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  • Community Operational Research

    Gerald Midgley

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael P. Johnson
Michael P. Johnson Pennsylvania State University
Gabriele Bammer
Gabriele Bammer Australian National University
Petra Tschakert
Petra Tschakert Curtin University
Ioan Fazey
Ioan Fazey University of York
Karen O'Brien
Karen O'Brien University of Oslo
Mark Reed
Mark Reed Scotland's Rural College
Mark Howden
Mark Howden Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
George P. Richardson
George P. Richardson State University of New York
John Ingram
John Ingram University of Oxford

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