CURRICULUM VITAE
Brian Castellani, PhD, FAcSS
Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, Durham Research Methods
Centre, Durham University, UK
Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute
for Health and Wellbeing Durham University, UK
Visiting Professor, Nelson Mandela University, ZA
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, US
Phone: +44 (0) 191 33 42232
E-mail: brian.c.castellani@durham.ac.uk
RESEARCH PROFILE: Social complexity; case-based complexity; interdisciplinary methods; visual
complexity;
visual arts in research; computational modelling; environmental health;
healthcare workforce;
air quality and brain health; collective behaviour; self and mind; policy
evaluation.
Education
1997 Ph.D. Health
Sociology, Kent State University
1992 M.A. Clinical
Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
1988 B.A. Psychology,
Kent State University
Current Appointments
2018 to present Professor of Health Sociology, Durham University, UK
2005 to present Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeast Ohio Medical University, US
2024 to present Visiting Professor, Nelson Mandela University, ZA
Previous
Appointments
2013 to 2017 Professor of Sociology, Department of
Sociology, Kent State University
2006 to 2012 Associate Professor, Department of
Sociology, Kent State University
2002 to 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of
Sociology, Kent State University
1997 to 2002 Assistant Professor, Behavioral
Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Fellowships and Visiting Appointments
2019 to present Fellow,
Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
2019 to 2022 Research
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam.
2016 (June) Systems Science Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Academy Health
2012 (Michaelmas) Leonard Slater Fellowship, University College, Durham University
2012 (Autumn) Visiting Research Scholar, University of Southern California
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
·
Director, InSPIRE consortium for mitigating the impact that air pollution
and the exposome have on brain health (including cognitive function, mental
health, and dementia)
·
Director, Durham Research Methods Centre, including our Durham Biostatistics Unit
·
Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
·
Executive
Committee, Centre for
the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
Monographs
|
Year |
Monograph |
|
2024 |
Castellani, B
and L Gerrits. The
Atlas of Social Complexity. Edward Elgar publishing. |
|
2022 |
Castellani, B and R. Rajaram Big Data Mining and Complexity. Sage – Volume 11 of the SAGE Quantitative Research
Kit. |
|
2018 |
Castellani, B. The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social
Psychology. Routledge –
part of the Complexity in Social Science Series. |
|
2015 |
Castellani, B. et al. Place and Health as Complex Systems: A Case-Based Study and Empirical
Test.
Springer Briefs in Public Health. |
|
2009 |
Castellani, B.
and F. Hafferty. Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Area of Inquiry.
Springer. |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B. Pathological
Gambling: The Making of a Medical Problem. New York: State University of New York Press. |
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book
Chapters
|
Year |
Article |
|
2024 |
Rajaram, R.,
Ritchey, N., & Castellani, B. Mathematical diversity of parts for a
continuous distribution. Journal
of Physics Communications. |
|
2024 |
Ziyachi, M., & Castellani, B. A ‘Cultural Models’ Approach to Psychotherapy for
Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Case Study from the UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,
21(5), 650. |
|
2024 |
Rajaram, R.,
Ritchey, N., & Castellani, B. On the mathematical quantification of
inequality in probability distributions. Journal of Physics
Communications, 8(8), 085002. |
|
2024 |
Russo, F., Broadbent, A., Castellani, B., Fustolo-Gunnink,
S., Rod, N. H., Rod, M. H., ... & Uleman, J. (2024). A Pluralistic
(Mosaic) Approach to Causality in Health Complexity. In The Routledge
Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods (pp. 241-253). Routledge. |
|
2023 |
Hodgson, J. R.,
Benkowitz, C., Castellani, B. C., Ellison, A., Yassaie, R., Twohig, H., ... & Fowler-Davis, S. A scoping review of the effects of ambient air quality on cognitive
frailty. Environments,
11(1), 4. |
|
2023 |
Rajaram, R., Ritchey, N., & Castellani, B. On the comparison of diversity of parts
of a distribution. Journal of Physics Communications,
7(7), 075006. |
|
2022 |
Castellani, B.,
Bartington, S., Wistow, J., Heckels, N., Ellison, A., Van Tongeren, M., ...
& Reis, S. Mitigating the impact of air pollution
on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda. Environmental Research,
114362. |
|
2022 |
Schimpf, C., & Castellani, B. Approachable modeling
and smart methods: a new methods field of study. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 1-15. |
|
2022 |
Castellani,
B. SMART
METHODS FOR COMPLEX POLICY EVALUATION. Systems
Science Seminar Series. Portland University, USA. |
|
2021 |
Badham, J., Barbrook-Johnson, P., Caiado, C., &
Castellani, B. (2021). Justified Stories with Agent-Based
Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning. Journal of Artificial Societies and
Social Simulation, 24(1), 1-8. |
|
2021 |
Giabbanelli,
P. J., Badham, J., Castellani, B., Kavak, H., Mago, V., Negahban,
A., & Swarup, S. (2021, July). Opportunities and challenges in
developing covid-19 simulation models: Lessons from six funded projects. In 2021 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) (pp.
1-12). IEEE. |
|
2021 |
Schimpf, C., Barbrook-Johnson, P., & Castellani,
B. (2021). Cased-based
modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation. Evaluation, 27(1),
116-137. |
|
2021 |
Barbrook-Johnson,
P., Castellani, B., Hills, D., Penn, A., & Gilbert, N. Policy
evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus. Evaluation,
(2021): 4-17. |
|
2020 |
Castellani. B. Making
the global complexity turn in population health. In Apostolopoulos, Hassmiller
Lich, and Lemke’s Complex
Systems and Population Health: A Primer. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190880743 |
|
2020 |
Schimpf,
C., & Castellani, B. COMPLEX-IT: A Case-Based Modelling and Scenario
Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry. Journal of Open Research Software,
8(1), 25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298 |
|
2020 |
Lieff, S. J., Baker, L., Poost-Foroosh,
L., Castellani, B., Hafferty, F. W., & Ng, S. L. Exploring
the Networking of Academic Health Science Leaders: How and Why Do They Do It? Academic Medicine. |
|
2020 |
Rajaram,
R., & Castellani, B. Diversity
in complex systems: Measuring parts of the distribution to the whole. Journal of
Physics Communication. https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ab8488 |
|
2019 |
Barbrook-Johnson, P., Schimpf, C., & Castellani,
B. Reflections
on the Use of Complexity-Appropriate Computational Modeling
for Public Policy Evaluation in the UK. Journal on Policy and Complex Systems, 5(1),
55-70. |
|
2019 |
Giabbanelli, P. J., Voinov, A. A.,
Castellani, B., & Törnberg, P. (2019, April). Ideal,
best, and emerging practices in creating artificial societies. In 2019
Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim) (p.
1-12). IEEE |
|
2019 |
Castellani,
B., P. Barbrook-Johnson & C. Schimpf. Case-based
methods and agent-based modelling: Bridging the divide to leverage their
combined strengths. International Journal of Social Research
Methodology |
|
2018 |
Dister, C., R. Rajaram and B. Castellani. “Modeling
Social Complexity in Infrastructures: A Case-based Approach to Improving
Reliability and Resiliency.” In E. Mitleton-Kelly,
A. Paraskevas, and C. Day’s (Eds) Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science:
Theory & Application. Edward Elgar Publishing |
|
2018 |
Castellani, B., F. Griffiths, R. Rajaram, & J.
Gunn. Exploring
Comorbid Depression and Physical Health Trajectories: A Case-Based
Computational Modeling Approach. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
24(6) 1293-1309. |
|
2018 |
Kingsbury,
D. M., Bhatta, M. P., Castellani, B., Khanal, A., Jefferis, E., & Hallam,
J. S. Factors
Associated with the Presence of Strong Social Supports in Bhutanese Refugee
Women During Pregnancy. Journal of immigrant and minority health,
1-7. |
|
2018 |
M Kingsbury, D., P Bhatta, M., Castellani, B.,
Khanal, A., Jefferis, E., & S Hallam, J. The
Personal Social Networks of Resettled Bhutanese Refugees During Pregnancy in
the United States: A Social Network Analysis. Journal of community health, 1-9. |
|
2017 |
Rajaram, R., B.
Castellani and A. Wilson. “Advancing
Shannon Entropy for Measuring Diversity in Systems" Complexity. |
|
2016 |
Castellani, B., and R. Rajaram. “Past
the Power Law: Complex Systems and the Limiting Law of Restricted Diversity.” Complexity. |
|
2016 |
Buckwalter, G.,
B. Castellani, B. John, B. McEwen, A. Rizzo, K. O’Donnell and T. Seeman. “Allostatic
Load as a Complex Clinical Construct: A Case-Based Computational Approach.” Complexity. |
|
2016 |
Rajaram, R., and B. Castellani. “An
Entropy Based Measure for Comparing Distributions of Complexity.” Physica
A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Application. |
|
2015 |
Castellani, B., R. Rajaram, J. Gunn, and F Griffiths. “Cases, Clusters,
Densities: Modeling the Nonlinear Dynamics of
Complex Health Trajectories.” Complexity. |
|
2014 |
Rajaram, R, and B.
Castellani. “The Utility of Non-equilibrium Statistical
Mechanics, Specifically Transport Theory, for Modeling
Cohort Data.” Complexity. |
|
2014 |
Castellani, B. Map
of Complexity Science. In “9th Iteration (2013):
Science Maps Showing Trends and Dynamics,” Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by
Katy Börner and Todd N. Theriault. |
|
2013 |
Castellani,
B., C. Schimpf and F. Hafferty. “Medical
Sociology and Case-Based Complexity
Science: A User’s Guide.” In Martin and Sturmburg
(Eds) Handbook Of Systems and Complexity in
Health. Springer. pp. 521-535. |
|
2013 |
Hafferty, F.,
B. Castellani, P. Hafferty, and P. Wojciech. "Anatomy
and histology as socially networked learning environments: Some preliminary
findings" Academic Medicine, Sept 88(9): 1315-1323. |
|
2012 |
Hafferty,
F. and B. Castellani. “Theories of Social Relations.” In Olle Sahler and John
Carr’s (Editors.) The Behavioral Sciences
and Health Care, 3rd Edition, Cambridge MA: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. |
|
2012 |
Rajaram, R and
B. Castellani. “Modeling Complex Systems Macroscopically:
Case/Agent-Based Modeling, Synergetics and the
Continuity Equation.” Complexity, 18(2): 8-17. |
|
2012 |
Castellani, B and R. Rajaram. “Case-Based
Modeling and the SACS Toolkit: A Mathematical
Outline.” Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, 18(2):
153-174 |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F.
and B. Castellani. “The
Increasing Complexities of Professionalism.” Academic Medicine, 85(2): 288-301 |
|
2010 |
Castellani, B., Hafferty, F. and Ball, M. “E-Social
Science from a Systems Perspective: Applying the SACS Toolkit.” Journal of Sociocybernetics, 7(2): 89-106. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F.W.
and Castellani, B. “The
Two Cultures of Professionalism: Sociology and Medicine.” In The Handbook of Health, Illness and Healing: Blueprint for the 21stCentury, Bernice Pescosolido, etc (ed.).
New York: Springer. |
|
2009 |
Hafferty,
F.W. and Castellani, B. “The Hidden Curriculum: A Theory of Medical Education”
In Handbook
of the Sociology of Medical Education, Caragh Brosnan and Brian S. Turner (eds.). London: Routledge. |
|
2009 |
Hafferty, F.W.
and B. Castellani “A
Sociological Framing of Medicine’s Modern-Day Professionalism Movement.” Medical
Education, 43(9):
826-828. |
|
2006 |
Castellani, B. and F. Hafferty. “The
Complexities of Professionalism: A Preliminary Investigation.”
In Delese Wear and Julie Aultman’s
(Editors)) Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives. Kluwer Academic Publishers. |
|
2006 |
Hafferty, F and
B. Castellani. “Medical Sociology.” In
Clifton Bryant and Dennis Peck’s
(Editors) Handbook of 21st Century Sociology. California: Sage. |
|
2004 |
Castellani,
J. and B. Castellani. “Data Mining Process and Analysis Strategies for Special
Education Technology Decision-Making.”
In D. Edyburn, K. Higgins, & R.
Boone (Editors), Handbook of Special Education Technology.
Milwaukee, WI: Knowledge by Design, Inc. |
|
2003 |
Castellani, B.
J. Castellani, and S. Spray. “Grounded Neural Networking: Modeling Complex Quantitative Data.” Symbolic Interaction, 26(4): 577-589 |
|
2003 |
Castellani, B. and J.
Castellani. “Data Mining: Qualitative Analysis with Health
Informatics Data.” Qualitative
Health Research, 13(7): 1005-1018.
|
|
2002 |
Castellani, B.,
R. Wedgeworth, J. Buckwalter, B. Taber, G. Bartlett, D. and D. Wear. “Do
Clinical Faculty Endorse Preparation for Today’s Changing Healthcare System?”
Journal of Managed Care Medicine, 6(2):28-31. |
|
2002 |
Wear D. and B. Castellani. “Motherhood and Medicine: The Experience of
Double Consciousness.” Annals of Behavioral
Science and Medical Education,
8(2): 92-96. |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B.
and D. Wear. “Physician
Views on Practicing Professionalism in the Corporate Age.” Qualitative
Health Research, 10(4):
490-506. |
|
2000 |
Wear, D. and B. Castellani. “Development
of Professionalism: Curriculum Matters.” Academic Medicine 75(6): 602-611. |
|
2000 |
Wear, D. and B.
Castellani. (Re)
considering Context in Patient-Doctor Relationships. Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education 7(1):
13. |
|
1999 |
Wear, D. and B. Castellani. “Conflicting Plots and Narrative
Dysfunction in Health Care.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 42(4):
544-558. |
|
1999 |
Castellani, B. “Michel
Foucault and Symbolic Interactionism: The Making of a New Theory of
Interaction.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 22:108-137. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B., R. Wedgeworth, E. Wootton, and L. Rugle. “A
Bi-Directional Theory of Addiction: Examining Coping and the Factors Related
to Substance Relapse.” Addictive Behaviors, 22(1):
139-144. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B.,
E. Wootton, L. Rugle, R. Wedgeworth, K. Prabucki, and R. Olson. “Homelessness,
Negative Affect, and Coping Amongst Veterans with Gambling Problems who
Misused Substances.” Psychiatric
Services,
47(3):298-299. |
|
1995 |
Castellani, B., and L. Rugle. “A
Comparison of Pathological Gamblers to Alcoholics and Cocaine Misusers on
Impulsivity, Sensation Seeking, and Craving.” Substance Use and Misuse, 30(3),
275-289. |
Invited Commentaries
|
Year |
Article or Book Chapter |
|
2020 |
Caiado, C.,
Castellani, B., Heckels, N. Applying
research to the COVID response: how Durham University modelling is helping
local planning. Universities Policy Engagement Network. |
|
2020 |
Castellani, B and Caiado, C. Coronavirus:
why we need local models to successfully exit lockdown. The Conversation. May 18, 2020 10.18am BST. |
|
2014 |
Castellani. B. “Complexity and the Failure of Quantitative
Social Science.” Discover
Society. |
|
2014 |
Castellani, B. “Fifteen Years a Complexity Scientist.” Theory, Culture & Society. |
|
2010 |
Castellani,
B. “Complexity Art: An Introduction to
the work of Damon Soule.” In Mars-1, Edonna, Vernon, Matsuyama, Soule, Choong Lee and
Hardgrave’s Further. New York. |
|
2001 |
Castellani, B. “Is Pathological Gambling Really a Problem?–You Bet!” Psychiatric Times, 28(20):64-66. |
|
1995 |
Rugle, L., and B.
Castellani. “Understanding and Treating Pathological Gambling.” Treatment
Today, 7(3), 7-9. |
Visual Complexity Research – Group and Solo
Exhibitions
|
Year |
Shows, Installations, Events |
|
2012 |
ArtCares, Museum of Contemporary
Art and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland, |
|
2012 |
Pedalling Art: A Celebration of Bicycle Art and Culture, Wall Eye
Gallery, Cleveland, 2012 |
|
2012 |
Cosmologies, Compositions and
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Archival project included in the Agency
for Unrealized Projects (AUP). AUP is a project by e-flux and the
Serpentine Gallery London devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones,
Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle. Exhibition at daad galerie,
Berlin Germany. 10 September to 20 October 2012. |
|
2011 |
Cleveland’s Skyline, Past and Wintertime Cleveland
Hopkins International Airport, Temporary Art Exhibition Program, 2010-2011. |
|
2009 |
Festivus Show, Wall Eye
Gallery, Cleveland, 2009. |
|
1995 |
Beyond the Surfaces of Perception, Fawick Art Gallery, Kleist Center
for Art & Drama, Baldwin- Wallace College—two person show with Ohio
artist, Deborah Pinter. |
|
1995 |
The Work of Brian Castellani, Zepher Café,
Kent, Ohio |
|
1994 |
Postmodernism & Beyond, Kent State
University Student Center, Kent State, Public Works
|
Book Reviews
|
Year |
Article |
|
2013 |
Castellani, B. “The Transformation of Contemporary
Healthcare: The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum by Tiago Moreira.” April 2013, Sociology of Health and Illness. |
|
2012 |
Castellani, B. “Social Understanding: On
Hermeneutics, Geometrical Models and Artificial Intelligence (Theory and
Decision Library A:).”
Journal of Artificial Societies
and Social Simulation |
|
2010 |
Castellani, B.
“A Review of Mind and Society: Special Issue on
Social Simulation, Volume 8, Number 2, 2009.” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B. Adolescent
Gambling, Is It a Problem? A Review of a Recent Book by Griffiths. Addiction, 91(10): 1556-1557. |
Educational
Websites, Software Apps and Blogs
|
Map of the Complexity Sciences (Website) |
|
COMPLEX-IT, a freeware R-Studio App (Website) |
RECENT GRANT ACTIVITY
|
Year |
Grant |
Award |
|
2019/ 2024 |
Co-I. NIHR Applied Research Collaboration - North East
and North Cumbria, RF900062 |
£263,609. |
|
2023 |
PI. Bridging the Gap - Research Training. Consultancy, Services or
CPD/Training (RC) - Consultancy (CPD). County Durham and Darlington NHS
Foundation Trust |
£34,107 |
|
2023 |
Co-I. EPSRC Digital
Health Hub grant https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/digital-health-hub-pilot-scheme/ |
£4.1
mil |
|
2022 |
PI.
InSPIRE: A policy and research consortium to mitigate the impact that places
have on air quality and brain health, particularly dementia, across the life
course. ESRC IAA |
£15,000 |
|
2022 |
Co-I. Durham@ATI Network in AI
and Data Science. Alan Turing Grant, EPSRC, RF090107, RF200217 |
£24,644 |
|
2021 |
PI. InSPIRE: developing
a policy consortium to address the social determinants of clean air and brain
health. ESRC IAA / |
£6,570 |
|
2020 |
PI.
Agent-based modelling of COVID-19 in support of NHS Trusts and Councils in
the North East of England, ESRC, £16,133 |
£16,133 |
|
2020 |
Co-I. Grant to support the Durham COVID-19 Community Health and Social Care
Modelling Team, IBM. |
£15,000. |
|
2020 |
Co-I. Early Warning Scores:
Modelling Care in Response to the Covid 19 Pandemic, MRC |
£34,719 |
|
2020 |
PI. UKPRP proposal: MR/T045221/1 - InSPIRE: Innovating UK clean air policies to prevent
cognitive disorders across the lifespan, particularly for vulnerable urban
populations |
£41,000 |
|
2020 |
PI. Exploring the Complex
Policy Landscape Around Air Pollution and Public Health: A 2-Day Workshop
2019-20 QR Strategic Priorities Fund, Durham University |
£15,000 |
|
2020 |
PI. Durham University Visiting Scholar grant through
International Office |
£2,000 |
|
2019 |
£1.3 mil |
|
|
2019 |
£3.8
mil |
|
|
2018 |
PI. Durham
COMPLEX-IT: a
web-based computational modelling and visualisation platform and learning
environment for evaluating public policy and services. ESRC Impact
Acceleration Fund, Durham University |
£9,400 |
|
2018 |
PI. The Ed and Carol Murray Social Justice Seminar:
Understanding Regional Complexity |
$9,200 |
|
2017 |
PI. CECAN Fellowship: The COMPLEX-IT App: linking
agent-based and case-based modeling for ex-post
evaluations and counterfactual analysis. (Fellowship grant) |
£10,000 |
|
2014 |
Co-I. Exploring the use social network analysis to
understand faculty development impacts. AMEE Research Grant, 2014-2015, (PI) Lieff S, Department of Psychiatry,
University of Toronto Medical School (Research grant) |
$15,295 |
|
2013 |
Co-I. Complexity and Method in the
Social Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Research
Seminars Competition 2012-2013. Economic and Social Research Council, Centre
for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University. |
£29,603 |
|
2013 |
Co-I. Controlling Community
Health across Time: Cases, Regions and Densities versus Nodes, Sub-graphs and
Networks) Strategic
Award, the Warwick Research Development Fund, Warwick University, (PI) Emma Uprichard,
Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University. (Research
grant) |
£9,709 |
|
2010 |
PI. Field
Experience to Establish a Center for Complexity in
Health. Professional Development Award, Regional Campuses, Kent State
University. |
$10,000 |
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
|
Year |
Presentation |
|
2024 |
COMPLEX-IT: Enabling
Non-Experts to Leverage Advanced Computational Modelling for Policy
Evaluation and Decision Making, Midlands Analyst Network Huddle as part of the NHS Strategy Unit.
|
|
2024 |
COMPLEX-IT for health
policy. The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, January 2025
Northumbria University, Newcastle.
|
|
2024 |
Improving the
resilience of health and public health systems to the impact of climate
change: learning between Japan and the UK. The UK Academy of Medical
Sciences (AMS) International Policy Arm and the Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science (JSPS) London
|
|
2024 |
Controversies,
Pitfalls and Promises of AI in Health Care in South Africa -- Public Lecture Nelson Mandela University
|
|
2024 |
COMPLEX-IT workshop, Nelson Mandela University,
South Africa
|
|
2024 |
Why is it so hard to think about the impact
of climate change and environmental exposure on brain health? For the series, What Were We Thinking? Run by Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. |
|
2024 |
Invited talk on the
Atlas of Social Complexity at the FRCCS 2024 (French Regional
Conference on Complex Systems) in Montpellier, France.
|
|
2024 |
Digital Health
Literacy for healthy ageing in Japan and UK - RENKEI HEALTH WORKSHOP 18-20 MARCH 2024 Southampton,
UK
|
|
2023 |
COMPLEX-IT: A User-friendly
platform for Combining QCA and Case-based Computational Modelling. 11th International QCA workshops, 12-14 Dec 2023
|
|
2023 |
Air Pollution and the
Exposome: A Complexity Perspective.
Health and the Environment Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study, University
of Amsterdam.
|
|
2023 |
Mitigating the impact
of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda
(University of Suffolk, Together for Transformation Conference)
|
|
2023 |
The Atlas of Social
Complexity: Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent Possible (Workshop at Nelson
Mandela University)
|
|
2023 |
Early Life Brain
Development, Air Pollution and the Exposome: A Complexity Perspective
(Lecture at Nelson Mandela University)
|
|
2022 |
COMPLEX-IT: A
software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA
|
|
2022 |
Health CASCADE
Workshop: Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health
|
|
|
Mapping Complexity’s
Adjacent Possible: Where Are We (Not) Headed? For the the Radboud Interfaculty
Complexity Hub.
|
|
2022 |
The emergence of
SMART methods -- non-expert platforms for social science and health research for the MethodsCon team and the National Centre for
Research Methods
|
|
2022 |
COMPLEX-IT for
rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research (MethodsCon University of Manchester) for the MethodsCon team and the National Centre for
Research Methods
|
|
2022 |
Case-based methods and agent-based
modelling: Bridging the divide to leverage their combined strengths. Faculti Media Limited. |
|
2022 |
How healthy places mitigate air pollution’s impact on dementia and its progression. Dementia Friendly Environments Webinar, Healthy Happy Places, Academic Health
Science Network, North East and North Cumbria |
|
2022 |
Understanding and Tracking
Health Inequalities and Vulnerabilities Around Air Pollution. 2.5.22 Clean Air Research Futures Group: What
research is needed to understand and track inequalities. |
|
2022 |
Invited participant in workshop on complexity, methods and public health. Institute for Advanced Study, University of
Amsterdam. |
|
2022 |
Case-based methods and agent-based
modelling: Bridging the divide to leverage their combined strengths. Complex Dynamic Interactions: Synergies
between ABM and QCA, Lorentz Centre, University of Leiden |
|
2022 |
Smart Methods for Complex Policy
Evaluation
Portland State University Noon
systems science and complexity seminar |
|
2022 |
Castellani,
B., and D. Byrne Health Policy Evaluation: A complex systems perspective . Presentation for the third Systems Evaluation Network |
|
2021 |
Castellani, B., and Fowler, T. ‘Western Civilization and Its Global Discontents in Pandemic.’ Disease, Community and Communication from Antiquity to Today
Conference, 19th June 2021, Durham Univ. |
|
2021 |
‘On Complexity in the Collective Human Consciousness.’ The Building as Being
Symposium part 2: The Mind. Waag, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
|
2021 |
‘Psychology and Complexity.’ ISCIA
Seminar Series: Grappling with Complexity, 2021, Nelson Mandela University,
South Africa. 21st May 2021. |
|
2021 |
‘Exploring trajectories of comorbid depression and physical health’ -- Centre for Urban
Mental Health and IAS Lecture University of Amsterdam University of
Amsterdam, 26th May 2021. |
|
2020 |
Castellani, B., and Gerrits, L. Complexity's Futurescapes, a fellowship
lecture for the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam. 22 September 2020. |
|
2020 |
Castellani,
B., and Gerrits, L. Complexity's Futurescapes, a
fellowship lecture for the Institute of Advanced Study, University of
Amsterdam. 22 September 2020. |
|
2020 |
Castellani, B., Schimpf, C., Barbrook-Johnson, P. COMPLEX-IT: User-friendly computational modelling software for
exploring complex policy data. 18 June
2020. CECAN Webinar |
|
2019 |
Is Public Health ready for
complexity? FUSE workshop on complexity in public health. |
|
2018 |
|
|
2017 |
Presentation at
CECAN (Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus) July 7th,
University of Surry. Title: COMPLEX-IT and the SACS TOOLKIT: A Case-Based Computational Modeling Platform for Data Mining Complex Issues in
Policy and Evaluation |
|
2017 |
Presentation
at CECAN (Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus) July 7th,
London. Title: Addressing Complexity in Nexus Issues: A
Case-Based Approach to Evaluation Research
|
|
2016 |
Presentation at
the Academy Health Conference, Boston MA, June. Title: You Can Improve Health by Modeling It As
Complex. |
|
2014 |
Keynote Speech “Modeling Complexity: A Case-Based Density Approach.” Simplifying Assumptions in Models of
Complex Systems, University of Birmingham, 7 May 2014. |
|
2014 |
Keynote Speech 10th Annual Alberta Gambling Research
Institute's Conference. Banff, Alberta, April 4 and 5, 2014. |
|
2013 |
Castellani, B and R. Rajaram
2013. “Modeling
Big Data Longitudinally: The Importance of Cases, Densities, Trajectories,
and Complexity.” Invited presentation
at the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Methodologies, Warwick University. November 2013 |
|
2013 |
Castellani, B
and R. Rajaram 2013. “Managing the
Dynamical Complexities of Community, Place and Health: Control Theory,
Network Science, Case-Based Modelling and Complexity Theory.” Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University. August 2013. |
|
2012 |
Master Class on Complexity run
with David Byrne, School of Applied
Social Sciences Seminar Series 2012-2013, Durham University. |
|
2011 |
Invited to be
the guest speaker and complexity methods expert for the National Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation’s Roundtable on
Professionalism in Practice, USA. |
|
2011 |
Invited in summer 2011 to co-chair
a pre-conference session in Vienna on complexity science and medical
education at the 2011 Association for
Medical Education in Europe Conference. |
|
2011 |
Invited, spring
2011, to present on the SACS Toolkit at the Eighth International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the
New England Complex Systems Institute
(NESI), Boston, MA. |
|
2001 |
Development of Professionalism: Curriculum
Matters. Joint Meeting of the Association for Surgical Education
and the Association of Program
Directors in Surgery. Nashville, Kentucky, USA (Spring 2001). |
Conference Workshops Run and Conference Presentations
|
Year |
EVENT |
|
2024 |
Ran the Second Workshop on Computational
Diplomacy and Policy (CodiP) at 24th International
Conference on Computational Science), Malaga Spain, Mike Lees, Roland Bouffanais.
|
|
2019 |
Peter
Barbrook-Johnson, Corey Schimpf, and Brian Castellani. Be bold, be
participative, be practical: Reflections on the use of complexity-appropriate
computational modelling for public policy evaluation in the UK.” Conference on Complexity And
Policy Studies Research and Practice for Social Good in a Complex World,
Washington D.C. |
|
2018 |
Castellani,
Brian. “Linking agent-based and case-based modeling
for ex-post evaluations and counterfactual analysis.” CECAN Intra-project
Meeting and Workshop. March |
|
2018 |
Castellani, Brian. “Advancing
case-based methods and QCA for modeling dynamics.” CECAN Policy Evaluation for a
Complex World,
July. |
|
2018 |
Castellani,
Brian. “The complexity perspective and why dynamic patterns are
important.” 8th |
|
2017 |
Castellani,
Brian. “The COMPLEX-IT App for modeling social
complexity.” CECAN International Symposium on Complexity Approaches to Evaluate
Global Nexus Policy Challenges, November.
|
|
2016 |
Castellani,
Brian. “Complexity,
Cases and Health.”
7th ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath, July. |
|
2014 |
Castellani, Brian 2014. “Modeling Complex Systems: A Case-Based Complexity
Approach.” |
|
2013 |
Byrne, David,
B. Castellani and E. Uprichard 2013. “Understanding Complex Social Systems: The Use of Multiple Methods to Provide
Multiple Perspectives.” 7th
Annual European Consortium Political Research, Bordeaux France. |
|
2012 |
Hafferty, F and B. Castellani
2012. “Medical School Mission Statements: An Analysis of Behavioral Science Themes.” Association
for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education, 42nd Annual
Meeting, San Antonio, TX, October 4-6, 2012. |
|
2011 |
Castellani, et
al 2011. “Complexity, Professionalism and the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education.” Pre-Conference
Workshop, at the International Association for Medical Education Conference, Vienna,
Austria. |
|
2011 |
Castellani, B and R. Rajaram
2011. “Case-Based Modeling
and the SACS Toolkit: A Mathematical Outline.” Eighth
International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems
Institute (NESI), Boston, MA, June 6th. |
|
2010 |
Castellani, B.
and J. Castellani 2010. “The SACS Toolkit for Modeling
Complex Systems. International Sociological
Association Meetings, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty,
F and B. Castellani 2010 “Professionalism and Mayo: An Opportunity to
Redefine the Future of Medicine,” Department of Medicine Grand
Rounds and The S. Brenndan Moore Annual Lecture, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN,
January 25, 2010. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F.,
Castellani B., and Antiel 2010 “New
Tools for Mapping Medicine’s Modern Day Professionalism Movement,” Faculty of
Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada,
February 4, 2010. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F., and B. Castellani 2010. “Decoding the Learning Environment of Medical
Education: A Hidden Curriculum Perspective on Faculty
Development as a Process of Tacit Learning.” Background paper for a
conference on A 2020 Vision of Faculty Education
Development Across the Medical Education Continuum, Baylor College of
Medicine, TX, 2010. |
|
2009 |
Hafferty, F. and B.
Castellani 2009 “The Complexities of Professionalism: A Research Agenda,” Presentation in
preparation for a special Flexner Centennial Issue of Academic Medicine, Association of
American Medical Colleges, Washington, D.C., April 20, 2009 |
|
2009 |
Castellani, B. Hafferty, F and Ball, M. “The SACS
Toolkit: E-Social Science from a Systems Perspective.” Sociocybernetics
Conference, Urbino Italy, June 2009. |
|
2008 |
Castellani, B. “Pareto, Schelling and Social Mobility: Addressing the
U.S. Housing/Financial Crisis.” ICAM
Conference, Center for the Study of Complex Systems,
Department of Physics, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, November 2008. |
|
2008 |
Hafferty, FW and Castellani, B. “Using Social
Network Analysis to Study Medical Education.” Pritzker
School of Medicine,
October 24, 2008. |
|
2008 |
Hafferty, FW and Castellani, B. "Professionalism as a
Social Movement.” American
College of Physicians:
Internal Medicine 2008, Washington, D.C., May 15, 2008. |
|
2007 |
Castellani, B. “The Sociology and Complexity
Website: An E-learning Tool for Social Scientists.” ICAM Conference, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI,
November 2007. |
|
2007 |
Hafferty, FW and Castellani, B. “Professionalism and the Hidden
Curriculum.” Brody School of Medicine, Greenville,
NC, January 15, 2007. |
|
2007 |
Hafferty, FW and Castellani, B. "The
Hidden Curriculum: A Faculty Development Workshop. Mayo
Medical School, Rochester MN, April 17, 2007. |
|
2007 |
Hafferty, F. and B. Castellani. 2007.
"Exploring Professionalism: A Workshop for Fourth Year Medical
Students." Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, Ohio. |
|
2005 |
Castellani, B. 2005 Greed and the American Dream of
Success. Seven Deadly Sins Series. Kent State University, Ashtabula Campus, Ashtabula, Ohio,
USA. (Spring 2005). |
|
2005 |
Castellani, B.
2005. “The Sociology of Complexity: Tools for 21st Century
Sociology.” Society for the
Study of Symbolic Interactionism Conference. Philadelphia, PA. |
|
2003 |
Castellani, B. 2003. “Teaching
Culture to Medical Students.” The Felix Padilla Conference on Teaching Diversity in Higher
Education, KSU, Ashtabula. |
|
2002 |
Castellani, B.,
and F. Hafferty 2002. “The New Professionalism in Medicine: What Medical Sociology Has
to Offer.” The Annual American Sociology Association Meetings. |
|
2001 |
Hafferty, F., Eckenfelds,
E., Castellani, B., and Calderon, J. 2001. The Perils of Becoming an Altruistic Physician: The “Me” Generation Enters
Medical School.” The 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for
the Behavioral Science and Medical Education. Cape Cod |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B.
and D. Deckert 2000. What Does Culture
have to do with Mental Health? The 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Behavioral Science and Medical Education. Santa Fe, New
Mexico. |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B. J. Varley, and D.
Deckert 2000. Isn’t Cultural Sensitivity Just Competent Psychiatry?: Teaching Culture to Psychiatry Residents. The 29th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric
Residency Training.
Puerto Rico |
|
1999 |
Castellani, B.
and S. Lee Spray 1999. Decentralization and the Professional Practice of Medicine. The Annual American
Sociology Association Meetings.
Chicago: Illinois. |
|
1999 |
Calderon, Jose, Fred Hafferty,
Brian Castellani, Kenneth Wolf, Nancy Chin, and Alicia Monroe 1999. AIME: Development of a Template for Auditing
the Preparedness of Medical Schools to Conduct Programs in Cultural Diversity. 28th
Annual Meeting of the Association for the Behavioral
Science and Medical Education. Savannah, Georgia. |
|
1999 |
Castellani, B.
and B. Minogue 1999. “Managed Care and Foregoing Treatment.” Annual Bioethics
Network of Ohio (BENO) Conference. Cleveland, Ohio. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B and P. Hartung
1998. Preparing Medical Students for
Careers in the Changing Health Care Context.
27th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Behavioral
Science and Medical Education.
Jackson Hole, Wyoming. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B.
1998. Pathological Gambling: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge. The Annual American
Sociological Association Meetings.
San Francisco: California. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B. 1998 Pathological
Gambling in Historical Context. The 12th National Conference on Problem Gambling. Las Vegas:
Nevada. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B.
1998. Pathological Gambling, the Making of a Medical Problem. The 5th Annual Florida
Conference on Compulsive Gambling. Orlando, Florida. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B. 1997. Pathological
Gambling, the Birth of a New Medical Object of Investigation. The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Association for
Humanistic Sociology. Pittsburgh, PA. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B.
1997. Discursive Negotiations: A New Theory of Knowledge. Society for the Study of
Symbolic Interactionism Conference. Toronto, Canada. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B. 1997. “Constructing
the Classroom as a Postmodern, Student-Run Government.”’ The Annual American Sociological Association
Meetings.
Toronto, Canada. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B.
1996. “Humanistic Teaching Methods.” The 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for
Humanistic Sociology.
Hartford, Connecticut. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B. 1996. “Symbolic
Interaction and the Postmodern Terrain.” Discussant for four papers by Stanford Lyman, Douglas Kellner,
Jonathan Epstein, and Simon Gottschalk. Society for the Study of Symbolic
Interactionism Conference. New
York. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B.
1996. “Are the Rules of Engagement Between Philosophy and the Social Sciences
Hostile or Friendly: Comments from a Sociologist of Knowledge.” The 3rd Annual Kent
State University May 4th Philosophy Graduate Student Conference. |
|
1995 |
Castellani, B. 1995 “Interpretive
Archaeology: Knowledge, Power, and Social Practice.” The Association for Humanistic Sociology Conference. Columbus, Ohio. |
|
1994 |
Castellani, B.
and F. Falk 1994. “Smoothing Polynomials Using Partial Least Squares Estimates.” The
Midwest Sociological Association Conference. St. Louis, Missouri. |
|
1994 |
Castellani, B. and C. Ritter 1994.
“Interaction Terms: Using Partial Least Squares Estimates.” The Midwest
Sociological Association Conference.
St. Louis, Missouri. |
TEACHING
|
The following is a list of all courses, modules, seminars
I have taught at Durham University (UK), Kent State University (USA) or
Northeast Ohio Medical University (USA) |
|
Introductory
Courses · Introduction to
Sociology (Kent State University) |
|
Health/Medical Sociology Courses · Sociology of Health and Health Care (Kent State
University) · Sociology of Health and Medicine (Durham University) · Culture and Psychiatry (Psychiatry Residency Program,
Northeast Ohio Medical University) · Sociology of Mental Health (Durham University and
Kent State University) · Drugs in Society (Kent State University) · Community Health Science Practicum (Northeast Ohio
Medical University) |
|
Methods and
Methodology Courses · Quantitative
Research Methods (Durham University) ·
Computational Social Science (Durham University) ·
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives and Practices across Social Research (Durham University) ·
Special Topics: Complexity Science and Method (Kent State
University) · Statistics/Data
Analysis (Kent State University) · Epidemiology
and Biostatistics (Northeast Ohio Medical University) · Advanced Data
Analysis (Kent State University) · Sociological
Analysis (Kent State University) · Researching
Society (Kent State University) |
|
Theory Courses · Sociological Theories (Kent State University) |
|
Social
Psychology Courses · Individual and
Society (Kent State University) |
|
Global Social Problems (Kent State University) |
Recent Post-Graduate Students
(Dissertations and Theses)
|
Tengpeng Zhang |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology Department |
Durham University |
2024 |
|
Anton Botha |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology Department |
Durham University |
2024 |
|
Mark Gurney |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology Department |
Durham University |
2022 |
|
Lasse Gerrits |
Doctoral Candidate |
Public Administration |
Erasmus University |
2018 |
|
Salem Othman |
Doctoral Candidate |
Computer Science |
Kent State University |
2018 |
|
Diana Kingsbury |
Doctoral Candidate |
Public Health |
Kent State University |
2017 |
|
Corey Schimpf |
Doctoral Candidate |
Systems Engineering |
Purdue University |
2015 |
|
Scot Tribuzi |
Doctoral Candidate |
Hospitality Management |
Kent State University |
2015 |
|
Victor Lee |
Doctoral Candidate |
Computer Science |
Kent State University |
2012 |
|
David Skubby |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology |
University of Akron |
2011 |
|
Corey Schimpf |
Masters Candidate |
Sociology |
Purdue University |
2010 |
CURRENT SERVICE ACTIVITIES
|
Year |
Project |
|
2017 – present |
Routledge, Complexity in Social Science
Series · Editor |
|
2016- present |
International Journal for Social
Research Methods ·
Editorial
board (2021 – present) ·
Former
Editor (2018-2021) |
|
2021 - present |
Clean Air Future Group, Clean Air
Programme, UK · Group member |
|
2012- present |
Horizon Europe: The EU Framework
Programme for Research and Innovation ·
External
reviewer |
|
2018 - present |
FUSE The Centre for Translational Research in Public
Health · Durham
University representative and member |
|
2018 – present |
Grant Reviewer Ad hoc for Austria, Netherlands, UK, South Africa. |
|
2022 – present |
NIHR School of Public Health Research · FUSE
representative and member |
|
2022 - present |
Research
Design Service, North East and North Cumbria ·
As director of DRMC I help to oversee Durham’s part in these
activities, including staff management and grant assistance. |
|
2019 - present |
SIPHER Consortium, Systems
Science in Public Health and Health Economics Research · Advisory board
member |
|
2011-2013 |
Stress Resilience in Virtual Environments: The
STRIVE Project. Principal Investigator: J. Galen
Buckwalter. The Telemedicine and Advanced Technology
Research Center (TATRC), U.S. Army
Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC). ·
Consultant |
|
2022 - present |
DURHAM UNIVERSITY · Administrative o Director, Durham Research Methods Centre o Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health
and Wellbeing |
|
2019 - present |
DURHAM
UNIVERSITY ·
University
Committees o Member, Health@Durham Strategy Steering group (2020
– present) o Member, Health@Durham Health Education group (2020 –
present) o Member, Search Team for Assistant/Associate Professor,
Social Data Science (2021) o Member, Curriculum committee, MA in Data Science
(2020 – present) o Member, Curriculum reform committee, MARM (2020 –
present) o Member, Durham Research Methods
Centre committee (2019 – present) o Member, PGT Directors
Committee (2019 – present) o Fellow, Durham Research
Methods Centre (2019 – present) |
|
2018 - present |
DURHAM UNIVERSITY · Department
Committees ·
Director, MA in Social Research Methods (2019 –
present) ·
Member, Promotion and reappointment committee (2018
– present) ·
Member, Education committee (2018 – present) ·
Member, Search and Hiring committee for
Assistant/Associate Professor (2019 – 2020) ·
Lead, Health and Social Theory Research group (2018
– present) |