🚀✨ 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_

The power of SD models lies in combining the tangible with the intangible, but it comes with the painful process of checking once, twice and seven more times (or so it feels!) AH 😆🧐😎🙌 @SQRuralhealth @UQHealth

Curious to see what I'm talking about? Here's a snippet of the model area. This little equation tweak made a HUGE difference in my outputs! 📸 #DataScience #Modeling #SystemsThinking

@SQRuralhealth members from @UQHealth (@gregrmont) at the #17nrhc Perth presenting on various topics in regional, rural & remote health e.g., interprofessional practice, rural placement data, editorial board meets, session chairs, networking... what a top time kudos team AH

Example: Transform a simple graphical curve (below) into a EXPBOUND function with just a few parameters--y-from, y-to, x-start, x-finish, and exponent. No more guesswork! #Modeling #STELLA

e.g., below, simple archetypal behaviours that are found in the many systems around us. Now try integrating the three models/six loops and anticipate the behaviour(s) over time... near impossible...

It was a great experience presenting to the global Systems Evaluation Network on an Introduction to System Dynamics Modelling all the way from @SQRuralhealth at @UQHealth! Thanks to James and Alex for invite - below is a short 🧵; take-home messages touched on in presentation.

🚨New study @UQHealth -> our @SQRuralhealth community is benefitting from the dedication of our allied health team at SQRH, big kudos your way; and thx for collab UniSQ & Rural Clinical School (Med) at UQ - an interdisciplinary effort! 👏🙏 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Never be discouraged & try not to compare yourself with others. Your race, your pace 🥳

I thoroughly enjoyed presenting at the HaBS Faculty-wide Webinar yesterday on an 'Introduction to Postdoctoral research Fellowships'. I probably should have emphasised more the iceberg (see below reply 👇) Thx to @gregrmont & HaBS RO invite & organising @UQHealth @SQRuralhealth