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Policy Modeling in Practice Workshop


Call for Participation: Policy Modelling Workshop

POLICY MODELLING IN PRACTICE

Monday 8th December 2014 @ Prince Philip House, The Royal Academy of Engineering, London, UK

The Centre for Research in Social Simulation (CRESS) at the University of Surrey invites presentations for a one day workshop on the topic of Policy Modelling.

Motivation

The use of social simulation to address policy questions has strong intuitive appeal to researchers and policy makers, but also faces considerable challenges and misconceptions. This workshop will aim to explore the approaches, experiences and outcomes of the use of social simulation in policy making contexts. The objective is to reflect on the realities of engaging with policy makers, rather than to describe model specifications in detail. Participation by both researchers and practitioners is encouraged.

Suggested topics for presentations could include, but are not limited to:

  • Participating in the policy process
  • Gaining access, trust and time with policy makers
  • Dealing with data availability
  • Being timely - contributing when policy makers are receptive
  • Dealing with expectations - communicating model interpretations, limitations and appropriate use to
    policy makers
  • Formulating modelling research questions with policy makers
  • Matching types of models to policy problems

Submission and Important dates

Abstracts (no more than 300 words) of presentations should be sent to peter.johnson@surrey.ac.uk. Accepted speakers will be given approx 20 minutes presentation time.

Submission deadline: 31st October 2014
Notification of acceptance: 14th November 2014
Workshop: 8th December 2014

PC Members

Prof. Nigel Gilbert
Prof. Petra Ahrweiler
Peter George Johnson
Dr Jennifer Badham
Dr Tina Balke
Dr Corinna Elsenbroich

Sponsors

This workshop is sponsored by the ePolicy EU FP7 project - http://www.epolicy-project.eu – and associated with the TELLME - http://www.tellmeproject.eu - and GLODERS - http://www.gloders.eu – EU FP7 projects.

Contact

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact Peter Johnson, peter.johnson@surrey.ac.uk.

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