Outputs (5)

Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, A., & Midgley, G. (online). Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension. Systems research and behavioral science, 42(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3096

A dilemma in critical systems thinking is how to balance a desire for critique to inspire far-reaching transformations in society with the requirement for people to reach accommodations to enable on-the-ground change. Both critique and accommodation... Read More about Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension.

Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems (2022)
Thesis
Sydelko, P. J. Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4321188

Conventional approaches to government are confounded by issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. These open-ended and highly interdependent issues are often characterized in the literature as ‘wicked problem... Read More about Collaborative learning and coordination across agency boundaries to tackle wicked problems.

Towards "a good enough justice" : Gillian Rose, interpretive systemology, and the mandatory introduction of British values in schools (2022)
Thesis
Smith, A. Towards "a good enough justice" : Gillian Rose, interpretive systemology, and the mandatory introduction of British values in schools. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4224402

Interpretive systemology is a systems approach asking researchers to explore different interpretations of a given social phenomenon or policy problem. While most systems approaches seek to support systemic intervention for social change, interpretive... Read More about Towards "a good enough justice" : Gillian Rose, interpretive systemology, and the mandatory introduction of British values in schools.

Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding (2020)
Journal Article
Sydelko, P., Midgley, G., & Espinosa, A. (2021). Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding. European journal of operational research, 24(1), 250-263. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.11.045

Wicked problems are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, and geopolitical boundaries. In response, there has been advocacy for interagency working. However, this confounds conventional approaches to... Read More about Designing interagency responses to wicked problems: Creating a common, cross-agency understanding.

A systemic integration approach to designing interagency responses to wicked problems (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sydelko, P., Midgley, G., & Espinosa, A. (2017, July). A systemic integration approach to designing interagency responses to wicked problems. Presented at 61st Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, ISSS 2017: From Science to Systemic Solutions - Systems Thinking for Everyone, Vienna

Wicked problems are open-ended, highly interdependent issues that cross agency, stakeholder, jurisdictional, political and geopolitical boundaries. This confounds governments because policies and budgets tend to be aligned within these boundaries an... Read More about A systemic integration approach to designing interagency responses to wicked problems.