Making sense of complexity - Dr. Duncan Holtom, Head of Research
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Presentation to staff, Board and partners concerning the complexity of understanding the relationships between cause and effect in human well-being, especially as it relates to education and employment. Specific notes to follow.
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Making sense of complexity - Dr. Duncan Holtom, Head of Research
- 1. Applied knowledge Making sense of “Complexity”
- 2. Simple / Complex system Cause Outcome B A Outcome C
- 3. “Complex” questions • How effective are interventions to raise educational achievement? • What is the link between poverty, place and ethnicity? • Can we change community cultures?
- 4. Evaluation: How effective are interventions to raise educational attainment? Plan Identify Assess Review (incl. provision)
- 5. Research: What is the link between poverty, place and ethnicity?
- 7. Assets Context Attitudes, thinking and behaviour Pathways and coping strategies Outcomes and experiences
- 8. Action research: Can we change community cultures…..? Place Culture networks
Editor's Notes
- Complexity – part of a system – difficult to understand individual parts of that system in isolation. Another way of putting it, it’s about understanding things in context
- People – JRFProvision – eveluation
- e.g. ASD, RAISE, BTFT, Pre-venet, ALN e.g. are we identifying the right childtrenandyoungpeople?Are we assesing their needs?Are we planning for and meeting their needs?Are we reviewing how effectively we are? What impact did the intervention have upon each of these? What else had an impact?
- Understanding and measuring ‘tipping points’Relationships individuals and interventions