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This page lists and links to resources, reports and publications relating to change. There are also developing short reviews and annotated bibliographies of my reading.  
Links to
Short reviews
​Annotated bibliographies

Web resources


How Change Happens - Duncan Green

​Global Challenges Foundation

​Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Time

Books


Burns, D. (2007) Systemic Action Research: A strategy for whole system change. Bristol: Policy Press

Byrne, D. (2011) Applying Social Science: The role of social research in politics, policy and practice. Bristol: The Policy Press.

Byrne, D. & Callaghan, G. (2014) Complexity Theory and the Social Sciences: The state of the art. Abingdon: Routledge.

​Castellani, B. & Hafferty, F. (2009) Sociology and Complexity Science. Berlin: Springer.

​Cilliers, P. (1998) Complexity and Postmodernism: understanding complex systems. London: Routledge.

Green, D. (2016) How Change Happens. ​Oxford: Oxford University Press.

​Major, C.H. & Savin-Baden, M. (2010) An Introduction to Qualitative Research Synthesis: ​Managing the Information Explosion in Social Science Research. Abingdon: Routledge.

Mitchell, S. D. (2009) ​Unsimple Truths: Science, Complexity and Policy. ​Chicago: Chicago Univeristy Press.   

​Morin, E. (2008) On Complexity. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

Noblit, G. & Hare, R.D. (1988) Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies. London: Sage. 

Pope, C.; Mays, N & Popay, J. (2007) Synthesizing Qualitative and Quantitative Health Evidence: A Guide to Methods. Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Rescher, N. (2000) Process Philosophy: A Survey of Basic Issues. ​Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Rosa, H. (2014) ​Alienation and Acceleration: Towards a Critical Theory of Late-Modern Temporality. Copenhagen: NSU Press & Nordskt Sommaruniversitet. 

Townsend, A, 2013. Action research: the challenges of understanding and changing practice Maidenhead: Open University Press.

Watzlawick, P.; Weakland, J. & Fisch, R. (1974) ​Chnage: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution. ​New York: W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

Papers, Chapters & Reports


Cilliers, P. (2010) ‘Acknowledging Complexity: A Forward.’ In D. Osberg & G. Biesta (eds) Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers. vii-viii.

Richardson, K.A.; Cilliers, P. & Lissack, M. (2007) ‘Complexity Science: A ‘Gray’ Science for the ‘Stuff in Between’ in Thinking Complexity: Complexity and Philosophy volume 1, Cilliers, P. (ed.). Mansfield, USA: ISCE Publishing, 25-35.

​Deacon, T.W. (2007) ‘Three Levels of Emergent Phenomena.’ In N. Murphy & W.R. Stoeger (eds) Evolution and Emergence: Systems, Organisms, Persons. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 88-110.

​Hilbert, M. (2016) 'Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges.' Development Policy Review, 34:1, 135-174.

​Krznaric, R. (2007) 'How Chnage Happens: Interdisciplinary perspectives for human development.' Oxfam Research Reports


​Lubbe, H. (2009) 'The Contraction of the Present' in H. Rosa & W. Scheuerman (eds.) High-Speed Society. Social Acceleration, Power and Modernity. ​Pennsylvania: ​Pennsylvania State University. 159-178.

Cilliers, P. & Richardson, K. A. (2001) 'What is complexity science? A view from different directions.' Emergence, 3:1, 5–22.

Videos and Slides From Past Presentations

Working with the shadows from Philwood
Engagement heuristics schema & bounded rationality from Philwood
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