The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity

SCID’s annual review of work

scidproject — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 10:54:19 +0000

SCID’s annual review of work is coming up!

Please find all relevant information here.

SCID at the ESRC Research Methods Festival 2012

nickshryane — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:29:39 +0000

The first week in July saw St. Catharine’s college Oxford hosting a panoply of methods for social science. The SCID project was involved in the “Complexity Science Meets Social Science” session, highlighting the issues faced in studying social trust, one of the themes of SCID, and how the tools and techniques of complexity science may be brought to bear in addressing them.

For more information, see the festival website here:
http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/RMF2012/programme.php?id=A5

Assessing election-day motivations to vote

scidproject — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:35:50 +0000

The SCID team will be collecting data from voters at the forthcoming local elections on Thursday 3rd May.

With this research, we are hoping to clarify why people show up to the polls on Election Day and who they go with. The main aim of this research is to inform a model of voting and will be used to produce research papers related to election-day voting behaviour and the social act of voting.

Click here for access to the project’s documentation.

SCID Seminar Series

scidproject — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:03:14 +0000

The monthly SCID Seminar Series started in January 2012.

They will be held on the last Friday of the month. We have an exciting line-up of speakers from all complexity-related areas.

Look at the Seminars section for more details.

First SCID Review of Work – Presentations

lsquaredp — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:20:46 +0000

Thank you to everyone who took part in our first review of work!
Your comments and feedback were really useful.

As discussed on Friday, we are making the presentations available on this website so feel free to take another look at them.

Day 1:
Introduction: Project Overview
Sesssion 1: The General Modelling Approach
Session 2: The Voter Model
Session 2: Demonstration & Example Outputs

Day 2:
Session 1: A Unified Framework for Schelling’s Model of Segregation
Session 2: The Employment Model
Session 3: Trust

And remember, if you have any further questions and/or comments, please contact us.

Thanks again!
The SCID team

SCID Project First Year Review

scidproject — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 10:44:43 +0000

For attendees of the SCID first year review (27-28th October, 2011), please find here relevant documents for this workshop, including the programme.

Additional documentation may be added before/after the meeting, including presentations so watch this space!

Programme:
Workshop Programme [SCID Project Review 27-28 Oct 2011]
Modelling approach:
The Modelling Approach [SCID Project Review 27-28 Oct 2011]
Voter model:
The Voter Model paper [SCID Project Review 27-28 Oct 2011]
Employment model:
The Employment Model paper [SCID Project Review 27-28 Oct 2011]
Trust model:
The Trust Model paper [SCID Project Review 27-28 Oct 2011]

SCID Presentation at ECCS 2001, Vienna

bruceedmonds — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:29:08 +0000

The slides from the presentation of the voter model at the European Conference on Complex Systems 2011 in Vienna in September.

http://www.slideshare.net/BruceEdmonds/using-a-dataintegration-model-to-stage-abstraction-in-voter-turnout

Welcome to SCID!

scidproject — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:01:28 +0000

Welcome to the website for SCID – The Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity. SCID is a new project from The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University, supported by the EPSRC.

SCID is a five-year research programme that will develop and apply novel tools and techniques from complexity science to model and understand the social processes relating to ethnic diversity and immigration.

Project news and updates will be posted here. Please browse the site to find out more about the project and who’s involved. We’d also appreciated your feedback, both about the SCID project and the site.