I am the founding co-chair of the Health and Care IMPACT (Information, Modelling, Prediction and Evaluation to inform ACTion) Network. The purpose of the network is to strengthen relationships between academics, health and social care managers and practitioners, clinicians, information analysts and service users within the health and care system in South West of England, in order to improve the process of problem-solving, decision making and solution implementation. The aim is to build a culture of use of data and information, analytical tools and techniques, and system evaluation to improve quality, safety and cost of care. 

A major academic and impact-related output of the Network has been the development of a real-time solution informing attendance choices for urgent care - the NHS Quicker platform. The work led to a REF 2021 impact study (UOA17 Business and Management Studies) on "Designing and implementing a digital platform to reduce A&E peak time demand across the South West", which was awarded the UK Operational Research Society's Lyn Thomas Impact Medal award for 2022. Find out more about the Impact Medal here. 

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My current research interests are in Hybrid Systems Modelling (application of simulation with wider Operational Research techniques like Problem Structuring Methods, Game Theory and Forecasting), Multi-Methodology/Hybrid Simulation (application of two or more simulation techniques) and Serious Games. I use techniques like Discrete-Event, Agent-Based and Spreadsheet/Monte Carlo simulation, and have applied them in the context of healthcare operations management and supply chain pedagogy. My healthcare research involves working with stakeholders from the UK National Health Service (NHS). I have a background in Distributed Systems and have applied Desktop Grid Computing to execute large and complex simulations in healthcare, banking and the auto industry.  Some of this work has involved inter-operability and the reuse of simulation models through Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS) principles, standards (IEEE 1516 High Level Architecture) and software (Run-Time Infrastructure).  I have research interests in Bibliometric and Meta-data Analysis of Research Domains. 

Editor-in-Chief

• Joint Editor-in-Chief (2021-):  Journal of Simulation 

Associate Editor

• Simulation: The Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International (2014 - )

• Health Systems (2019-)

• Journal of Simulation (2013 - )

• ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) on Simulation and Modeling (SIM) M&S Knowledge Repository. (2013 - 2019)

Special Issue Guest Editor

• Modelling and Simulation in the Cloud Computing Era (Journal of Simulation, 16(6), 2022). 

• The Advances in the State of the Art of Modeling and Simulation - Part 1: Discrete Event System Specification Simulation: The Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 94(3), 2018).

• The Advances in the State of the Art of Modeling and Simulation - Part 2: Hybrid Systems Modelling (Simulation: The Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 94(4), 2018).

• Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 27(2), 2017). 

• Modelling and Simulation in the Era of Big Data and Cloud Computing: Theory, Framework and Tools (Simulation: The Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 93(4), 2017). 

• Simulation for Sustainable Healthcare (Journal of Simulation, 9(2), 2015).

• The Internet-of-Things: Shaping the new Internet Space (Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(8), 2015).

• Advancing Simulation Theory and Practice with Distributed Computing - Part 1: High-performance Simulation and Simulation Methodologies (Simulation: The Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 89(11), 2013).

• Advancing Simulation Theory and Practice with Distributed Computing - Part 2: Application and Support for High-performance Simulation (Simulation: The Transactions of the Society for Modeling & Simulation International, 89(10), 2013). 

• Healthcare simulation (Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 26(1) and 26(2), 2013).

Conference Leadership

• Business Chair - 2021 Winter Simulation Conference (Phoenix, Arizona)

• Lead Proceedings Editor - 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (National Harbor, Maryland)

• Proceedings Co-Editor – 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (Gothenburg, Sweden)

• Proceedings Co-Editor – 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (Las Vegas, NV)

• Awards Chair - 2017 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (Virginia Beach, VA)

• General Chair - 2016 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (Pasedena, CA)

• Vice-General Chair - 2015 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (Alexandria, VA)

• Program Co-Chair & Proceedings Co-Editor for the 2015 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (London)

• Program Chair - 2014 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (Tampa, FL)

• Publicity Chair - 2014 ACM SIGSIM-PADS (Denver, Colorado)

• Program Co-Chair - UK OR Society’s 2013 annual conference OR55 (Exeter, UK)

Track/Stream Organiser

• Hybrid Simulation Track - Winter Simulation Conference (2014-2018)

  • • 2018 - Gothenburg, Sweden

    • 2017 - Las Vegas, NV

    • 2016 - Arlington, VA

    • 2015 - Huntington Beach, CA

    • 2014 - Savannah, GA

• Simulation stream - OR60 Annual Conference,  11– 3 September 2018, Lancaster University, UK

• Health and Social Care stream - OR59 Annual Conference, 2-14 September 2017, Loughborough University, UK

• Health and Social Care Modelling stream - OR58 Annual Conference, 6-8 September 2016, University of Portsmouth, UK

• Health and Social Care stream - OR56 Annual Conference, 9-11 September 2014, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

• Simulation stream - OR55 Annual Conference, 3-5 September 2013, University of Exeter, UK