ERCIM News No. 144 Special theme: "Advancing Open Science"

 

Dear ERCIM News reader,

ERCIM News 144 is now online [in PDF also]! This issue is dedicated to Advancing Open Science. Open Science is becoming an essential part of the European research landscape, shaping how knowledge, data, software, infrastructures and results are shared, reused and sustained.

The contributions collected in this special theme offer a cross-section insight into the current European effort to make research more open, transparent, collaborative and reusable.

This special theme was coordinated by our guest editors Leonardo Candela (CNR-ISTI) and Roberto Di Cosmo (Inria and University Paris Cité).

Includes: [PJ]

Rethinking Researcher Profiles in the Research Assessment Transition Era: The OpenAIRE Approach. pp.9-10.

P. Manghi, et al., “OpenAIRE Graph Dataset (10.6.0) [Data set]”, OpenAIRE.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17725827

BibTexViz: Visualizing Research Productivity with Open Science Data. pp.10-12.

D. Hicks, et al., “The Leiden Manifesto for research metrics”, Nature 520, 429-431, 2015.
https://doi.org/10.1038/520429a
T. Munzner, “Visualization Analysis and Design”, CRC Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1201/b17511
M. Zaumanis, “Research Data Visualization and Scientific Graphics: For Papers, Presentations and Proposals”, Peer Recognized, 2021.

MOEBA-BIO: An Open and Extensible Framework for Evolutionary Biclustering in Biomedicine. pp.17-19.

Co-Creation as Infrastructure for Open Science Data Spaces. pp.24-25.

A Osterheider, et al., “Conceptualization of the Understanding of Participation and Co-Creation in Interdisciplinary Research Groups developing Digital Health Technology: An Exploratory Study: Conceptualization of the Understanding of Participation and Co-Creation”, Mensch und Computer 2023, 534–538, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3608572

LICORICE: Deploying Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Europe’s Digital Sovereignty. pp.30-31.

D4Science: An Enabling Infrastructure for Open Science. pp.38-39.

D. Schaap, M. Assante, et al., “Blue-Cloud: Exploring and demonstrating the potential of Open Science for ocean sustainability,” in Proc. 6th Int. Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea), IEEE, 2022, pp. 198–202, doi:10.1109/MetroSea55331.2022.9950819.

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On Wednesday in Waterstones, Deansgate, Manchester, I spotted this book. Opening it randomly - I kid you not - it fell to pp.204-205, and Florence Nightingale's contribution.

The Mathematicians' Library The Books That Unlocked The Power Of Numbers

'At that time, the idea of visualizing data in order to make its messages clearer to non-mathematicians (including politicians) in order to change minds and inform opinions had started to gain traction in Europe but was not common in England. Nightingale continued to use statistical diagrams to communicate stories hidden in data, and while this clearly contributed to improvements in health and mortality in British military encampments at home and abroad (and by extension in the population in general), it is also undoubtedly the case that she helped to popularize the use of appropriate data visualization methods to expand the reach of statistical information beyond specialist audiences. A testament to the influence of her work is that the Royal Statistical Society had the honour of accepting Florence Nightingale as their first female member in 1859.' p.204.

 

Thomas K. Briggs. (2025) The Mathematicians' Library The books that unlocked the power of numbers Hardback. Part of the Libri Historici series. Ivy Press.

 

Previously: 'Nightingale' : 'math' 

My source: Waterstone, Deansgate, Manchester and email Florence Nightingale Foundation.

Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering - CDVE2026 Call for Papers

The 23rd International conference on Cooperative Design Visualization and Engineering (CDVE2026) will be held at the Leuphana University, Lunenburg, Germany on September 21-23, 2026 in their amazing architecture landmark main building. Please check the Youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YrWvqdu6_E.

Important dates:

Long paper (10 pages): April 10, 2026
Short papers (6 pages): April 20, 2026

Topics: The conference focus is "cooperative". Papers about cooperative design, cooperative visualization, cooperative engineering and all other cooperative applications are welcome. Papers about multiple users, locations, sensors, multimodal applications and integration are all within our focus. Topics also cover social networks, IoT, sensor networks, e-health care, e-education etc. Check our web page

www.cdve.org for more information.

Proceedings publication: by Springer Nature in their LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

All accepted papers will be indexed individually by Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI), part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM, Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, Zentralblatt MATH etc. 

Selected papers will be considered in a couple SCI journal special issues.

In addition, according to the publisher, the CDVE conference proceedings books have very high number of access among the LNCS proceedings books which can definitely raise the impact of your paper.

The submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdve2026

Contact of the conference: cdve2026 AT easychair.org

You are welcome to forward this call.
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The 23rd International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering
Sept. 21-23, 2026, Lüneburg, Germany
www.cdve.org

Diagrams, Visualizations, Intuition and Critical Thinking QED

"The atom of Niels Bohr, a miniature solar system, had become a embarrassingly false image. ... Bohr himself had set the tone. In accepting the Nobel Prize for his atomic model, he said it was time to give up the hope of explanation in terms of analogies with everyday experience. 'We are therefore obliged to be modest in our demands and content ourselves with concepts that are formal in the sense that they do not provide a visual picture of the sort one is accustomed to require. . . .' This progress had not been altogether free of tension. 'The more I reflect on the physical portion of Schrödinger's theory, the more disgusting I find it,' was Heisenberg's 1926 comment to Pauli. 'Just imagine the rotating electron who charge is distributed over the entire space with axes in 4 or 5 dimensions. What Schrödinger writes on the visualizability of his theory . . . I consider trash.' As much as physicists valued the conceptualizing skill they called intuition, as much as they spoke of a difference between physical understanding and formal understanding, they had nevertheless learned to mistrust any picture of subatomic reality that resembled everyday experience. No more baseballs, artillery shells, or planetoids for the quantum theorists; no more idle wheels or wavy lines. Feynman's father had asked him, in the story he told many times: 'I understand that when an atom makes a transition from one state to another, it emits a particle of light called a photon. . . . Is the photon in the atom ahead of time? . . . Well, where does it come from, then? How does it come out?' No one had a mental image for this, the radiation of light, the interaction of matter with the electromagnetic field: the defining event of quantum electrodynamics." p.242.

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Gleick, J., (1992) GENIUS - Richard Feynman and modern physics, London: Little Brown and Company, p.242.

Where is NURSING THEORY: integrated, holistic, and person-centered care ... ?

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"Be the difference!"	Nightingale
"Be the difference ... to All others."	What is 'different' here? Locally Nationally Internationally Biosphere

#HealthTheory

Previously on W2tQ: 'Nightingale'

My source/prompt: c/o @Jasonforrestftw
https://twitter.com/Jasonforrestftw/status/1621224549848170499?s=20&t=KHJSqwCsE6r3Ch8lRoDioQ

Medical sociology ... "food for thought" c/o POHG

I replied to the message copied below by Alex Scott-Samuel on the Politics of Health Group Mail List. Following up with respondents, I have copied Alex's reply and others:

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From: Alex Scott-Samuel <alexscottsamuel AT gmail.com>

To: "pohg AT jiscmail.ac.uk" <pohg AT jiscmail.ac.uk>

Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2022 at 13:05:25 GMT

Subject: [POHG] Illich

Just came across this from 19 years ago: still offers food for thought

 

[The graphic file downloaded should be legible. PJ]
 

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On 26 Nov 2022, at 17:46, peter jones <h2cmng AT yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Thanks Alex,

This is very useful - short but very sweet and as you say food for thought - especially in our (ongoing) consumptogenic age.

You've prompted a draft blog-post I will add an acknowledgement and link to POHG.

I've no evidence, that is reading, so what follows are thoughts ... musings ... but I keep wondering: what has happened to 'medical sociology'?

Is medical (health) sociology - history as a discipline?

Is there ongoing development - has the discipline morphed into others?

Is there a case to stress not only public health, but public MENTAL health? As I often do. Am I over-reacting?

In information technology there is talk of functionality being placed in wrappers. Has sociology been subsumed - it's there - but underneath - policy rhetoric (integrated, person-centred, holistic care)?

Who are the leading current figures - and recent equivalents of -

"Aaron Antonovsky (19 December 1923 – 7 July 1994) was an Israeli American sociologist and academic whose work concerned the relationship between stress, health and well-being (salutogenesis)."

Canguilhem

Virchow ...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_sociology

Should I take heart by the arrival of the SDGs, and the recognition of not only the social determinants of health, but political and commercial too and others..?

I keep writing regarding the potential and utility of Hodges' model:

https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/search?q=sociology

Thanks again,

Peter
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From: Alex Scott-Samuel <alexscottsamuel AT gmail.com>

Cc: "pohg AT jiscmail.ac.uk" <pohg AT jiscmail.ac.uk>

Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2022 at 18:41:10 GMT

Subject: Re: [POHG] Illich - wither et al. ?

Interesting questions Peter. I sense that the answers are out there but not necessarily concentrated in this list. Although I retired from academic public health almost 7 years ago, I have no reason to think that what is now called the sociology of health and illness is not as strong as ever. The kind of places I would look are on the one hand journals such as Sociology of Health and Illness, Social Science & Medicine and Critical Public Health and on the other, popular outlets such as Laurie Taylor's Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed. 

As far as I know the Medical Sociology Group of the British Sociological Association still exists and holds regular conferences. There has for many years been a Journal of Public Mental Health though it's a while since I've looked at it

Antonovsky's ideas were popular in the health promotion field as well as in academic social science. I remember that a number of people in the WHO Healthy Cities movement were interested in salutogenesis. I've not thought about it for many years but I was on a research group with Antonovsky in the mid 80s when he was developing his Sense of Coherence construct. I  I have to say that despite the attractiveness of problematising health rather than sickness, I never thought the sense of coherence was adequately or well theorised. I do recall seeing quite a few papers from people who rushed out to measure the coherence of people in various situations using the tool which Antonovsky produced. I don't know whether this kind of work continues nor whether it developed

All the best, Alex

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From: Alderson, Priscilla <p.alderson AT ucl.ac.uk>

Sent: Saturday, 26 November 2022 at 18:55:08 GMT

Subject: Re: [POHG] Illich - wither et al. ?

Dear Peter,

My book Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research: A Practical Introduction (Policy Press 2021) reviews the main traditions in medical sociology and critically updates sociology research that is relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The medical sociologists are the largest subgroup among all UK sociologists.

best wishes

Priscilla

Priscilla Alderson PhD,  Professor Emerita,  

Social Research Institute, University College London,
18 Woburn Square, London WC1H ONR p.alderson AT ucl.ac.uk     

http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=DPALD60  

   

Alderson P. 2021 Critical Realism for Health and Illness Research. Policy Press. 

Winner of the IACR Cheryl Frank award 2022.

Children’s consent to heart surgery research website:  

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/departments-and-centres/centres/social-science-research-unit/consent-and-shared-decision-making-healthcare/heart-surgery

Alderson, P. and Morgan, J. 2022 Realist by inclination, childhood studies, dialectic and bodily concerns: an interview. Journal of Critical Realism, 10.1080/14767430.2022.2068261
Alderson P, Morrow V. 2020 The Ethics of Research with Children and Young People: A Practical Handbook. SAGE.

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----- Forwarded message -----

From: Eileen O'Keefe <e.okeefe57 AT gmail.com>

To: Alex Scott-samuel <alexscottsamuel AT gmail.com>;

Cc: Professor Lesley Doyal <l.doyal AT bristol.ac.uk>

Sent: Sunday, 27 November 2022 at 19:52:16 GMT

Subject: Lesley Doyal

Dear Peter and Alex

 

Lesley Doyal set the agenda simultaneously with Illich with her Political Economy of Health. She continues to lead the pack re socially produced global inequities in health, eg her Living with HIV and Dying with AID: diversity, inequality and human rights in the global pandemic. Routledge Global Health Series. 2013.

Cheers

Eileen O’Keefe

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By way of background:

I've always been impressed (in awe of) and reassured by 'medical sociology', the pioneers (as above), as a discipline, and in terms of sociology's explanatory potential.

Another - not so much an 'explanation' but an avenue to explore, has long been the continuum of care (yes, just one initially?). This spans the need for compassion, empathy, rapport, allied with the importance of hands - in nursing, medicine, surgery ... their being steady, vision true with rapid, safe, reliable, effective judgement and decision-making. In short, the need for humanistic and mechanistic synergy. Finding, and taking up Hodges' model perhaps this can account for the idea of holistic bandwidth(?).

It is an exaggeration surely, but it feels like I made two simultaneous connections in first reading psychology and philosophy. These are mind - body, and the way that many in society are 'remote' from science (knowledge), for a variety of reasons. Sociology can help account for those reasons.

Seeing (literally) the potential of visualization (as posted on W2tQ and in papers) in the 1970s, in 1990s research programs were dedicated to facilitate the development and application of visualization in the humanities. Visualization should not just be the preserve of high energy physics, bio-science and proteomics ... (although the attraction to what is 'quantifiable' is understandable). This is the question that drives this effort (I think!).

So the 'humanities' still have a requirement in information systems, informatics and literacy terms, and Hodges' model can, I believe, offer a way forward.

The replies above are much appreciated and I will follow them up.

Agile Visualization with Pharo: Normalizers

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shapes? normalization	shapes?

Agile Visualization
with Pharo

"Normalizers: Shapes may be shaped and colored in a meaningful way to represent attributes and properties of the objects represented by the shapes." p.49.

Bergel, A. (2022). Overview of Roassal. In: Agile Visualization with Pharo. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7161-2_5

NHS Independent Report: "Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis"

"Professor Ben Goldacre’s review into how the efficient and safe use of health data for research and analysis can benefit patients and the healthcare sector."

 

 

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"Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis"	"Raw data - such as NHS patients’ electronic health records - is prepared, analysed, and visualised by writing code that issues instructions to computers. Data preparation and analysis are hugely complex technical tasks."
PUBLIC: Safety Privacy Accountability [inc. Value for Money] Benefits Trust Literacy Awareness / Understanding of Science(s) Self-care, Care of family and Social Care (Inoculation: Fake news, Dis-, Mis-, Malinformation)? 'Broader' (a further post ...?)	“Nobody wants to work in an NHS trust on NHS data, it’s a nightmare and we can't pay people appropriately.” - Interviewee

Department of Health & Social Care, Independent report. "Better, broader, safer: using health data for research and analysis". Published 7 April 2022.

 

My source: 

Trevor Peacock, Head of Governance, Risk & Compliance, Information Security Group, Information Services Division University College London 

c/o NHS-HE-FORUM

 

'Faulty thinking' or 'Thinking faulty'?

By Mikenorton - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4050363

Mikenorton, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Call for Papers: Diagrams 2021

The organization of Diagrams 2021 is making rapid progress. Five outstanding Keynote speakers have now been announced. Also, the free, online conference has adopted a novel approach to the program structure that is expected to provide fair access to the conference across multiple time zones.

 Find more details in the 2^nd call for papers attached below or on the webpage www.diagrams-conference.org/2021 - and do pass on the information if you know researchers or students for whom it may be relevant.

Best,

Mikkel Willum Johansen 

Publicity Chair

Diagrams 2021

 

*** Call for Papers: Diagrams 2021 ***

12^th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams

September 28 – 30, 2021

Virtual Event

www.diagrams-conference.org/2021

 

*** Highlights ***

 

- FREE REGISTRATION

- Proceedings published by Springer

- Three Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education.

- Graduate Symposium

- Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards

- Submission dates in April 2021.

 

***************** Keynote Speakers Announced *******************

Shaaron Ainsworth, University of Nottingham

Daniel Rosenberg, University of Oregon

Katarina Scheiter, University of Tubingen

Atsushi Shimojima, Doshisha University

Frederik Stjernfelt, Aalborg University of Copenhagen

 

Francesco Bellucci, University of Bologna, is the Inspirational ECR Speaker for Diagrams 2021

******************* Novel Program Schedule *********************

Diagrams 2021 will adopt a novel approach to scheduling talks, to accommodate different time zones across the globe. See

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/program/

for more details.

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Diagrams is the only conference series that provides a united forum for all areas that are concerned with the study of diagrams and has a multidisciplinary emphasis.

For 2021, *MAIN TRACK* conference topics include, but are not limited to:

– applications of diagrams,
– computational models of reasoning with, and interpretation of, diagrams,
– design of diagrammatic notations,
– diagram understanding by humans or machines,
– diagram aesthetics and layout,– evaluation of diagrammatic notations,
– graphical communication and literacy,
– heterogeneous notations involving diagrams,
– history of diagrammatic notations,
– information visualization using diagrams,
– nature of diagrams and diagramming,
– novel technologies for diagram use,
– reasoning with diagrams,
– semiotics of diagrams,
– software to support the use of diagrams, and
– usability and human-computer interaction issues concerning diagrams.

In addition to the main track, Diagrams 2021 will have two further tracks: Philosophy, and Psychology and Education; for their topics of interest, see

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/main-track/

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/philosophy/

http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/index.php/calls/psychology-of-diagrams/.

 

If the main research contribution of your submission is considered to fit either of the other tracks then you are strongly encouraged to submit to the respective special track, each of which has a dedicated program committee.

Authors of accepted submissions will be expected to be in attendance at the virtual conference to present their research and respond to questions presented by delegates. All presenters must accept that it is not within the power of the organisers to prevent delegates from recording  talks. However, when registering, delegates will be asked to confirm that they will not record any part of the conference.

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Submission Categories

The conference will include presentations of refereed Papers, Abstracts, and Posters, alongside a graduate symposium.

We invite submissions for peer review that focus on any aspect of diagrams research, as follows:

- Long Papers (16 pages),

- Abstracts (3 pages),

- Short Papers (8 pages),

- Posters (4 pages – this is both a maximum and minimum requirement).

More details and all important dates can be found on at www.diagrams-conference.org/2021.

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Mikkel Willum Johansen

Associate professor

Department of Science Education

University of Copenhagen

5th Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities

We are happy to announce that the 5th edition of VIS4DH — the Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities — will take place on Sunday, October 25, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah, as part of the IEEE VIS2020 conference.

For 4 years now, the VIS4DH workshop has brought together researchers and practitioners from the fields of visualization and the humanities to discuss new research directions at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities research. The general aim is to foster productive collaborations that mutually advances all fields involved. Papers and invited talks from previous years can be found here.

Re-Thinking
Re-Defining
Re-Imagining Data

This year, we invite a dialogue on the topic and terminology around “data”, a contested term within and between a range of disciplines. There are varying perspectives on the meaning and use of data that impact how we engage and debate it. “Data” seems core to visualization! Or is it? We invite both theoretical and applied works at the intersection of visualization and (digital) humanities around these and other questions related to the workshop theme.

You can contribute and showcase your work through our paper track (just like in previous years) and/or through our provocations track (new for VIS4DH 2020!) – the official calls for papers and provocations can be found on the Call for Submissions page.

Check back here or follow us on Twitter for the latest updates.

Here is the News: another "Brilliant Map"

Or, to be more precise -

"Brilliant Maps"

An Atlas for Curious Minds – 100 New Ways to See the World

A new book released 5 November 2019:

Brilliant Maps - Book

"Which nations have North Korean embassies? How many countries have bigger economies than California? Who drives on the “wrong” side of the road? And where can you find lions in the wild?

In Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds, you’ll learn all this and much more. One hundred visually arresting maps strike a balance between sobering analysis (number of executions by state) and whimsical insight (the countries of the world where there aren’t any McDonald’s).

Thought-provoking and flat-out fun, this one-of-a-kind atlas—compiled by the editor of the popular Brilliant Maps website—makes surprising connections that illuminate the contours of culture, history, and politics. Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds will change the way you see the world—and your place in it".

See also:

https://www.infographic.ly/


My source:
Wright, I. The World as you've Never Seen It, The Sunday Times Magazine, 27 October 2019, pp.26-31.
 

Eye tracking - the silver bullet..?

Eye tracking: 
the silver bullet of competency assessment 
in medical image interpretation?

Kok, E.M. (2019) Eye tracking: the silver bullet of competency assessment in medical image interpretation? Perspectives on Medical Education. 8:63–64.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-019-0506-5

^*Jones, P. (2019) Eye tracking: the silver bullet of competency in achieving integrated, holistic and person-centred care through reflection and critical thinking? 2020 Vision in Care.1:1-25.

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In my mind's eye I can picture care: Frame by Frame

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Aphantasia - unable to visualise mental images Ed	Animation Frame by Frame Aphantasia - 2.5% of people may have it Requires memory plus areas in the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital lobes to work together.
Catmull ... has "blind mind's eye"	... a former Pixar President

Additional links:

Can’t count sheep? You could have aphantasia

Aphantasia: Losing the mind’s eye 

Low, V. Picture this: the top animators who can't draw mental images, The Times, Wednesday, April 10, 2019, p.24.

Art & Science: The need 4 Care Notation

McQueen - 'Picnic'

If you can make the core notation 

balanced,

fit for purpose 

(assess, plan, intervention, evaluation)

then annotations can be added 

according to the context 

(illness, strengths, recovery, end of life)

for a unique performance

(person centredness, integrated, holistic care)

My source: Battle, L. (2013) Scores unsettled, FT Arts, Sept 28-29, p.13.

Image: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/graphic-scores-art-music-pictures/mcqueen-picnic/

8. McQueen - Picnic

Graphic scores serve a dual purpose: as well as looking beautiful, they explain abstract ideas about how the music should be played. In this piece, written in 2006, each line represents a different instrument, with the colours and shapes informing how the music might sound.

Book Review: [ii] Health System Redesign - How to Make Health Care Person-Centered, Equitable, and Sustainable

Part 1 gets straight to the matter of "challenging the orthodoxy" with a two page introduction to complexity and health. Part 1 covers:

• systems sciences
• visualization of complex systems (Capra's vortex metaphor)
• understanding the co-existence of different degrees of complexity and their dynamics within complex adaptive organisations based on Kurtz and Snowden's Cynefin model.
• health as a "complex adaptive experiential state"

All four points here are very pertinent to where we are in health and healthcare (the book rightly stresses this differentiation) and current and ongoing 21st century issues. The use of Capra helps to distinguish scale and the levels inevitably existent, experienced, and described in health and healthcare systems.

If you are familiar with Hodges' model and the Cynefin model, then the answer is yes - seeing the Cynefin model did make me hoot. (I remember Dave Snowden's work from Plaxo and a presentation he did in Lancaster back in 2007). More importantly, part 1 introduces where the focus needs to be to facilitate change; on the core driver of the system, the system's long-term direction, a specific system view and the need for a solid grounding in theoretical and applied approaches. This is were the visual tools and producing a view - perspective are so important. Chapter 2 contrasts the simple scientific world view and the complex scientific. The reader is asked to consider numerous background points, from the colloquial meaning of complex/complexity to the scientific. How do the words 'complex' and 'complicated' differ? At small scale the result is greater certainty BUT loss of context, while at the large scale we find greater uncertainty AND loss of detail.

Figure 2.3 shows the key features of complex systems (also indicating the dynamics - '+' '-'):

• System boundaries
• Interconnectedness
• Feedback
• Impact of starting (initial) condition

Some of the figures point to their means of creation "The essence of systems thinking" (Figure 2.4) produced through Insightmaker. Sturmberg's seeks to ground the discussion too by reference to the everyday. Table 2.1 runs through how systems can be related to the experience of a 'Long day at work'. Addenda are put to immediate effect with a reference to a map of the history of complexity science; the philosophy of complex adaptive systems; and the complexity and difficult questions.

As already suggested Chapter 3 on the visualisation of complex adaptive systems had my attention. The vortex metaphor (Capra) seems trite on first encounter, but it works.* The four different ways to map a system:

1. Systems map
2. Influence map
3. Multiple case diagram
4. Sign graph diagram

are quite important as if you can take the explanations onboard you really will be on the way to fully understanding and utilising theoretical and applied approaches. The learning here is allied with understanding common system dynamic behaviours which are also illustrated and explained. Figure 3.4 shows the Cynefin framework, which is still in my head. The Cynefin model deals with the continua of:

• uncertain - certain
• non-linear - linear

• Contrasts - Learning and Teaching
• and four quadrants that combine what is complex, knowable or complicated, chaos, and known or obvious (simple). The three references here span 1996-2003.

At chapter 4 - I was worried - 'Defining Health' (now there's a task) but this is also interesting, rewarding and well placed. Core notions of health are tabled (4.1) from 1911 to 2007. Health is distinguished from dis-ease. I must follow up the footnote on p.59 Marja Jylhä and her framework of self-perception of health. 

The illustrations on pp.60-61 are frustrating.

Very!

Not because they shouldn't be there, but because they are a gift that remain (as far as I am aware) unrealised in respect of those of us working in the humanities. We still lack the visualisation tools that we need.

If I mention Figure 4.1 "The somato-psycho-socio-semiotic model of health" you will get the drift and overlap with Hodges' model. There is more with 4.2 on Attractors in Health and Illness and the system dynamics of health. The political attractor is missing (and its 'gravitational' impact) in this rendering, but the barriers to progress are also raised at the book's end. Given the topic of health, the text is not science light, with the physiology of health and disease also used to explain points, so we have, gene networks, the autonomic nervous system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and bioenergetics in the mitochondrion. While not in-depth the potential application across external factors-personal experiences and internal mechanisms are demonstrated. The role of the patient, public and carers are central today and realised to various degree in theory, practice, management and policy. Self-rated health is briefly mentioned and with community health and health services utilisation this closes part 1.

More to follow...

Sturmberg JP. Health System Redesign. How to Make Health Care Person-Centered, Equitable, and Sustainable. Cham, Switzerland: Springer; 2018.

See also first part...

Gagné nine events in E-learning

In checking through more books, I revisited Khan and Ally's International Handbook of E-Learning. Chapter 10 by Florence Martin includes several models for instructional design. My in-situ pencil notes from 2015 reminded me of Figure 10.1 "Adaptation of Gagné's nine events" (Gagné and Driscoll, 1988).

I found a version on Pinterest:

Gagné's nine events

Martin and others refer to "Present Stimulus" as "Present the Content" and this is what stands out. If Hodges' model was realised within an online reflective workbench then the student would be engaged in creating the content. The student becomes the stimulus, generating the content.

Pinterest provides another version which sums up quite nicely the potential of Hodges' model. It was brainstorming and developments in mind-mapping that prompted my interest. Structure can gain attention. Structure might also invite interaction. Hodges' model presents a space in which the contents might be manipulated? The initial blank space might also indicate an objective. A series of care or knowledge domains may also invite reflection on a practical experience, a patient or carer encounter.

Gagné's nine events

What follows from Present the content in Gagné's nine events remains a challenge, but if you understand what Hodges' model is and its application then you may also see its potential.


Martin, F. (2015) E-learning Design-From Instructional Events to Elements, Chapter 10. In Badrul H. Khan, & Mohamed Ally (Eds) International Handbook of E-Learning. Volume 1, Oxford: Routledge. pp. 153-170.

With regards to putting a pile of books together for a trip to Hay-on-Wye these handbooks Vols 1 & 2 are keepers.

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Fallding: 'model'

"The ideal type, as a case of the heuristic, resembles what is now called a model. ... He [Nagel] makes model refer simply to the mental imagery with which we clothe our theoretical entities in order to have some pictorial grasp of them : ... essentially analogies, yet they do more than help us visualize; they help our thinking to unfold by taking it in new directions. 

[Model] is taken to mean a system of concepts that is useful in mapping the variables in a field under investigation. It may be a corner of a field or the whole field of the subject: a model may be of bureaucracy, for instance, or of society in general. ... in scientific work we do not start out with an empty mind, nor even with isolated hypotheses. We start with a guess about the whole structure of our universe of discourse. The coherence that goes into this system of concepts, a coherence whereby each concept is defined by the relationship in which it stands to the others, is analogous to explanation but is not explanation in fact. For it is not an account of reality as it has been experienced" (p. 510).

Harold Fallding. Explanatory Theory, Analytical Theory and the Ideal Type. In. Thompson, K. and Tunstall, J. (eds.): Sociological Perspectives, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1971.

Excerpt from Harold Fallding. (1968) The sociological task. Prentice-Hall.

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