🚀 FULLY FUNDED PhD OPPORTUNITY – HEALTH SCIENCES & SYSTEMS THINKING 🚀 👉 Are you ready to dive into a HIGH-IMPACT PhD with a stipend $$ and a FLEXIBLE WORKING ARRANGEMENT? 👈 📢 We are looking for a passionate PhD candidate to join a high-performing team at the University of Queensland (UQ), St Lucia. 💡 If you're interested in systems thinking methods, health sciences, and real-world research impact, this is an opportunity of a lifetime! 🔥 What’s on offer? ✅ FULLY FUNDED PhD scholarship 💰 DOMESTIC only. ✅ Living stipend of $36,400 per annum (tax-free, indexed annually) ✅ Tuition fees completely covered 🎓 ✅ Single overseas student health cover (OSHC) 🌍 ✅ Research aligned with a nationally significant project 🔬 ✅ Work with renowned researchers & industry partners 🤝 ✅ Flexible working arrangements for work-life balance 💼 📍 Location: The University of Queensland (UQ) – St Lucia 📚 Research Area: Health Sciences | Systems Thinking | Workforce Dynamics 💡 Why this PhD? This is a unique chance to contribute to groundbreaking research that will help to shape the future of health workforce planning and/or health systems and/or systems innovation. Emphasis is placed on emerging challenges that could affect healthcare effectiveness, including climate change and the evolving role of AI! ⏳ DON’T MISS OUT! 📩 Interested? Drop a comment below, DM me, or apply directly here: study.uq.edu.au/study-option…

🚀✨ I am delighted to share that new systems model building and analysis software is now available! The Qualitative Systems Exploration Model (QSEM) software enhances our ability to derive actionable insights from systems models, Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs), Group Model Building, and participatory activities! 🚀✨ After years mapping, applying, and testing complex systems models in health, sport, safety, transport, and beyond, I noticed an opportunity to enhance qualitative methods. We can create CLDs and other systems models that lead to valuable conversations with researchers and stakeholders, but turning those insights into actionable strategies that shift the system? That’s where things can get tricky...! To bridge that gap, I built QSEM. It keeps the openness and collaboration of systems thinking, co-design, and modelling while introducing: ✅ Novel metrics ✅ Real-time progress updates ✅ Flexible weighting systems ✅ Exciting interactive visuals ✅ Thematic classification and coding ✅ Subsystem frames ✅ Key loops of interest ✅ 3D exploratory views ✅ The ability to collaborate on the same model with easy file sharing The new user-friendly software is designed to give teams more confidence in their decisions by: ✅ Applying quantitative approaches to non-simulated systems models (such as CLDs) to extract deeper, more actionable insights ✅ Taking a novel approach to quantifying factors and relationships using impact and control values; it's easy to use, you can build a CLD in situ with stakeholders and explore model elements in real time ✅ Finding and scoring key factors and feedback loops for strength, speed, and relative independence ✅ Combining control and influence to focus on what’s both important and within governance reach If you want to explore systems within sleek software and gain new insights using a novel method, see what QSEM can do for you! *note*: yes please do "request access" to QSEM at login after "launch" 😊 loads of new requests & interest wow (!!) thank you to this great enthusiastic community, & please share with others if useful, best, AH 🙏 👉 systemssciencelab.com #SystemDynamics #SytemsThinking #CommunityEngagement #ParticipatoryModeling #PolicyModeling #ComplexSystems

📢 Thrilled to share that I’ll be presenting a new framework called the Qualitative Systems Exploration Model (QSEM) at the International System Dynamics Conference this year (#ISDC2025)! 🌍 This 3-phase approach integrates with Group Model Building (GMB) protocols and helps bridge the gap between research and practice using semi-quantitative methods in hashtag #systemsthinking. Are you interested in 👉 ✅ Enhancing decision-making in complex systems? ✅ Identifying potentially effective novel policies? ✅ Getting the most from complex models? ✅ Improving performance and safety in various systems? Then this might be for you. 👇 What is QSEM? Many complex models, like Causal Loop Diagrams (CLDs), often stop at the point of being “interesting pictures”, and researchers and practitioners want more from their models - insights, leverage, action, policy-change. This is really hard & a big ask under a qualitative paradigm without doing fully-fledged SD simulations 🧠. We've tried to help here with the 3-phases: 🔹Phase 1: System Factor Classification (SFC) Uses expert weightings and/or data to identify key factor types in the system and maps them on a dynamic 4-quadrant influence diagram that updates in real time. 🔹Phase 2: Loops of interest (LOI) Feedback Loops are prioritised based on strength, independence, and the inclusion of key factor types from Phase 1. A novel Dynamic Loop Register (DLR) helps participants modify parameters, refresh results, and explore a complex model interactively. 🔹Phase 3: Archetype identification & analysis Participants work through a System Archetypes Ladder to identify and analyse feedback patterns, moving from theory to real-world application. Why it matters? In complex policy spaces, transport, health, climate, food systems – QSEM attempts to turn collective wisdom into a traceable reasoning. Stakeholders can map complexity, debate it, adjust it, and hopefully own it! Please contact me for more information, and I'll happily share more details of the presentation nearer the time, plus resources🙂 QSEM comes with a Technical Guide to help its application. Duncan Radley Andrew Brown Jefferson Rajah Birgit Kopainsky Loes Crielaard Harriet Koorts James Nobles / @leedsbeckett / @Deakin / @UiB / @amsterdamumc / @UQHealth SQRH @systemdynamics_

Out of all system wisdoms this has always taken top spot!

🚨 Hot off the press 🚨: Evaluating the use of Systems Thinking Methods in healthcare practice. Thanks to Brandon King, Gemma Read, and Paul Salmon alongside QLD Health for a great project! @UniSC @UQHealth 👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

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Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉!!! Kudos AH

A great collaboration... paradigm shifting work in sports science with more to come from the RUNSAFE group --> injuries occur more suddenly than the “gradual” approach described in textbooks top effort, Jesper, Nina, Julie, and Rasmus @AarhusUni_int @UQHealth kudos AH 🙌

🚨🙌 seeking interest for a funded PhD opportunity at UQ (St Lucia Brisbane) in the area(s) of systems science, healthcare, health systems with great people, please e-mail Dr Adam Hulme | UQ Experts contact details online 🙌🚨

Fantastic read and totally resonate... May I add... Your compadre should be curious and ask deep scientific, methodological and analytic questions, how, why, what... Challenging questions about mechanics not simply end-goals.