About the webinar

About Gerald: 

Gerald Midgley is Professor of Systems Thinking and Co-Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, University of Hull, UK. He also holds Adjunct Professorships at Linnaeus University, Sweden; the University of Queensland, Australia; the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Mälardalen University, Sweden; and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He has held research leadership roles in both academia and government, having spent eleven years as Director of the Centre for Systems Studies at Hull, and seven years as a Senior Science Leader in the Institute for Environmental Science and Research (ESR), New Zealand. 

Gerald has written over 300 papers for academics and practitioners on systems thinking and community operational research, and has been involved in a wide variety of public sector, community development, health service, technology foresight and resource management projects. He was the 2013/14 President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, and has written or edited twelve books. These include: "Systemic Intervention: Philosophy, Methodology, and Practice" (Kluwer, 2000); "Operational Research and Environmental Management: A New Agenda" (OR Society, 2001); "Systems Thinking", Volumes I-IV (Sage, 2003); "Community Operational Research: OR and Systems Thinking for Community Development" (Kluwer, 2004); "Forensic DNA Evidence on Trial: Science and Uncertainty in the Courtroom" (Emergent, 2011); and the "Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking" (Routledge, 2022, forthcoming).