CURRICULUM VITAE
Brian Castellani, PhD, FAcSS
Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, Durham Research Methods
Centre
Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute
for Health and Wellbeing
Durham University, UK
Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry
Northeastern Ohio Medical University, USA
Phone: +44 (0) 191 33 42232
E-mail: brian.c.castellani@durham.ac.uk
RESEARCH PROFILE: Environmental and public
health; brain health (including cognitive function, mental health and dementia);
the complexities of place and health;
interdisciplinary methods and computational modelling
for decision-making; complexity theory; public policy
evaluation.
Education
1997 Ph.D. Sociology,
Kent State University
1992 M.A. Clinical
Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology
1988 B.A. Psychology,
Kent State University
Current Appointments
2018 to present Professor of Sociology, Durham
University, UK
2005 to present Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry,
Northeast Ohio Medical University, USA
Previous
Appointments
2013 to 2017 Professor of Sociology, Department of
Sociology, Kent State University
2006 to 2012 Associate Professor, Department of
Sociology, Kent State University
2002 to 2006 Assistant Professor, Department of
Sociology, Kent State University
1997 to 2002 Assistant Professor, Behavioral
Sciences, Northeast Ohio Medical University
Fellowships and Visiting Appointments
2019 to present Fellow,
Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)
2019 to 2022 Research
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam.
2016 (June) Systems Science Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Academy Health
2012 (Michaelmas) Leonard Slater Fellowship, University College, Durham University
2012 (Autumn) Visiting Research Scholar, University of Southern California
RESEARCH LEADERSHIP
· Director, InSPIRE consortium for mitigating
the impact that air pollution and the exposome have on brain health (including
cognitive function, mental health, and dementia)
· Director,
Durham
Research Methods Centre, including
our Durham
Biostatistics Unit
· Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
· Co-Investigator and member of management team, Centre for
the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN)
Monographs
|
Year |
Monograph |
|
2024 |
Castellani, B
and L Gerrits. The
Atlas of Social Complexity. Edward Elgar publishing. Forthcoming June |
|
2022 |
Castellani, B and R. Rajaram Big Data Mining and Complexity. Sage – Volume 11 of the SAGE Quantitative Research
Kit. |
|
2018 |
Castellani, B. The Defiance of Global Commitment: A Complex Social
Psychology. Routledge –
part of the Complexity in Social Science Series. |
|
2015 |
Castellani, B. et al. Place and Health as Complex Systems: A Case-Based Study and Empirical
Test.
Springer Briefs in Public Health. |
|
2009 |
Castellani, B.
and F. Hafferty. Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Area of Inquiry.
Springer. |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B. Pathological
Gambling: The Making of a Medical Problem. New York: State University of New York Press. |
Peer Reviewed Articles
|
Year |
Article |
|
2024 |
Rajaram, R., Ritchey, N.,
& Castellani, B. Mathematical diversity of parts for a continuous distribution. Journal of Physics Communications. |
|
2023 |
Hodgson, J.
R., Benkowitz, C., Castellani, B. C., Ellison, A., Yassaie, R., Twohig, H., ... & Fowler-Davis, S. A scoping
review of the effects of ambient air quality on cognitive frailty. Environments,
11(1), 4. |
|
2023 |
Rajaram, R., Ritchey, N.,
& Castellani, B. On the comparison of diversity of parts of a distribution. Journal of Physics Communications, 7(7),
075006. |
|
2022 |
Castellani, B., Bartington, S., Wistow, J., Heckels,
N., Ellison, A., Van Tongeren, M., ... & Reis, S. Mitigating the impact of air pollution
on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda. Environmental Research, 114362. |
|
2022 |
Schimpf, C.,
& Castellani, B. Approachable modeling
and smart methods: a new methods field of study. International Journal
of Social Research Methodology, 1-15. |
|
2021 |
Badham, J., Barbrook-Johnson,
P., Caiado, C., & Castellani, B. (2021). Justified Stories with Agent-Based
Modelling for Local COVID-19 Planning. Journal of Artificial Societies and
Social Simulation, 24(1), 1-8. |
|
2021 |
Giabbanelli,
P. J., Badham, J., Castellani, B., Kavak, H., Mago,
V., Negahban, A., & Swarup, S. (2021, July). Opportunities and challenges in
developing covid-19 simulation models: Lessons from six funded projects. In 2021 Annual Modeling and Simulation Conference (ANNSIM) (pp.
1-12). IEEE. |
|
2021 |
Schimpf, C., Barbrook-Johnson,
P., & Castellani, B. (2021). Cased-based
modelling and scenario simulation for ex-post evaluation. Evaluation, 27(1),
116-137. |
|
2021 |
Barbrook-Johnson,
P., Castellani, B., Hills, D., Penn, A., & Gilbert, N. Policy
evaluation for a complex world: Practical methods and reflections from the UK
Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity across the Nexus. Evaluation,
(2021): 4-17. |
|
2020 |
Schimpf, C., & Castellani, B. COMPLEX-IT: A
Case-Based Modelling and Scenario Simulation Platform for Social Inquiry. Journal
of Open Research Software, 8(1), 25. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/jors.298 |
|
2020 |
Lieff,
S. J., Baker, L., Poost-Foroosh, L., Castellani,
B., Hafferty, F. W., & Ng, S. L. Exploring
the Networking of Academic Health Science Leaders: How and Why Do They Do It? Academic Medicine. |
|
2020 |
Rajaram, R., & Castellani, B. Diversity
in complex systems: Measuring parts of the distribution to the whole. Journal of Physics Communication. https://doi.org/10.1088/2399-6528/ab8488 |
|
2019 |
Barbrook-Johnson,
P., Schimpf, C., & Castellani, B. Reflections
on the Use of Complexity-Appropriate Computational Modeling
for Public Policy Evaluation in the UK. Journal on Policy and Complex Systems, 5(1), 55-70. |
|
2019 |
Giabbanelli, P. J.,
Voinov, A. A., Castellani, B., & Törnberg, P. (2019, April). Ideal, best,
and emerging practices in creating artificial societies. In 2019 Spring Simulation Conference (SpringSim) (pp. 1-12). IEEE. |
|
2019 |
Castellani, B., P. Barbrook-Johnson
& C. Schimpf. Case-based
methods and agent-based modelling: Bridging the divide to leverage their
combined strengths. International
Journal of Social Research Methodology |
|
2018 |
Castellani, B., F. Griffiths, R. Rajaram, & J.
Gunn. Exploring
Comorbid Depression and Physical Health Trajectories: A Case-Based
Computational Modeling Approach. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
24(6) 1293-1309. |
|
2018 |
Kingsbury,
D. M., Bhatta, M. P., Castellani, B., Khanal, A., Jefferis, E., & Hallam, J. S. Factors
Associated with the Presence of Strong Social Supports in Bhutanese Refugee
Women During Pregnancy. Journal of immigrant and minority health,
1-7. |
|
2018 |
M Kingsbury, D., P Bhatta, M., Castellani, B., Khanal, A., Jefferis, E., &
S Hallam, J. The Personal
Social Networks of Resettled Bhutanese Refugees During Pregnancy in the
United States: A Social Network Analysis. Journal of community health, 1-9. |
|
2017 |
Rajaram, R., B.
Castellani and A. Wilson. “Advancing
Shannon Entropy for Measuring Diversity in Systems" Complexity. |
|
2016 |
Castellani, B., and R. Rajaram. “Past
the Power Law: Complex Systems and the Limiting Law of Restricted Diversity.” Complexity. |
|
2016 |
Buckwalter, G.,
B. Castellani, B. John, B. McEwen, A. Rizzo, K. O’Donnell and T. Seeman. “Allostatic
Load as a Complex Clinical Construct: A Case-Based Computational Approach.” Complexity. |
|
2016 |
Rajaram, R., and B. Castellani. “An
Entropy Based Measure for Comparing Distributions of Complexity.” Physica
A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Application. |
|
2015 |
Castellani, B., R. Rajaram, J. Gunn, and F Griffiths. “Cases, Clusters,
Densities: Modeling the Nonlinear Dynamics of
Complex Health Trajectories.” Complexity. |
|
2014 |
Rajaram, R, and B.
Castellani. “The Utility of Non-equilibrium Statistical
Mechanics, Specifically Transport Theory, for Modeling
Cohort Data.” Complexity. |
|
2013 |
Hafferty, F., B. Castellani, P. Hafferty,
and P. Wojciech. "Anatomy
and histology as socially networked learning environments: Some preliminary
findings" Academic Medicine, Sept 88(9): 1315-1323. |
|
2012 |
Rajaram, R and B. Castellani. “Modeling Complex Systems Macroscopically:
Case/Agent-Based Modeling, Synergetics
and the Continuity Equation.” Complexity, 18(2): 8-17. |
|
2012 |
Castellani, B
and R. Rajaram. “Case-Based
Modeling and the SACS Toolkit: A Mathematical
Outline.” Computational
and Mathematical Organizational Theory, 18(2): 153-174 |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F. and B. Castellani. “The
Increasing Complexities of Professionalism.” Academic
Medicine, 85(2): 288-301 |
|
2010 |
Castellani, B.,
Hafferty, F. and Ball, M. “E-Social
Science from a Systems Perspective: Applying the SACS Toolkit.” Journal of Sociocybernetics, 7(2): 89-106. |
|
2009 |
Hafferty, F.W. and B. Castellani “A
Sociological Framing of Medicine’s Modern-Day Professionalism Movement.” Medical Education, 43(9): 826-828. |
|
2003 |
Castellani, B.
J. Castellani, and S. Spray. “Grounded Neural Networking: Modeling Complex Quantitative Data.” Symbolic Interaction, 26(4): 577-589 |
|
2003 |
Castellani, B. and J.
Castellani. “Data Mining: Qualitative Analysis with Health
Informatics Data.” Qualitative
Health Research, 13(7): 1005-1018.
|
|
2002 |
Castellani, B.,
R. Wedgeworth, J. Buckwalter, B. Taber, G.
Bartlett, D. and D. Wear. “Do Clinical Faculty Endorse Preparation for
Today’s Changing Healthcare System?” Journal of Managed Care Medicine, 6(2):28-31. |
|
2002 |
Wear D. and B. Castellani. “Motherhood and Medicine: The Experience of
Double Consciousness.” Annals of Behavioral
Science and Medical Education,
8(2): 92-96. |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B.
and D. Wear. “Physician
Views on Practicing Professionalism in the Corporate Age.” Qualitative
Health Research, 10(4):
490-506. |
|
2000 |
Wear, D. and B. Castellani. “Development
of Professionalism: Curriculum Matters.” Academic Medicine 75(6): 602-611. |
|
2000 |
Wear, D. and B.
Castellani. (Re)
considering Context in Patient-Doctor Relationships. Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education 7(1):
13. |
|
1999 |
Wear, D. and B. Castellani. “Conflicting Plots and Narrative
Dysfunction in Health Care.” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 42(4):
544-558. |
|
1999 |
Castellani, B. “Michel
Foucault and Symbolic Interactionism: The Making of a New Theory of
Interaction.” Studies in Symbolic Interaction, 22:108-137. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B., R. Wedgeworth,
E. Wootton, and L. Rugle. “A
Bi-Directional Theory of Addiction: Examining Coping and the Factors Related
to Substance Relapse.” Addictive Behaviors, 22(1):
139-144. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B.,
E. Wootton, L. Rugle, R. Wedgeworth,
K. Prabucki, and R. Olson. “Homelessness,
Negative Affect, and Coping Amongst Veterans with Gambling Problems who
Misused Substances.” Psychiatric
Services,
47(3):298-299. |
|
1995 |
Castellani, B., and L. Rugle. “A
Comparison of Pathological Gamblers to Alcoholics and Cocaine Misusers on
Impulsivity, Sensation Seeking, and Craving.” Substance Use and Misuse, 30(3),
275-289. |
Book Chapters
|
Year |
Chapter |
|
2020 |
Castellani. B. Making
the global complexity turn in population health. In
Apostolopoulos, Hassmiller Lich, and Lemke’s Complex
Systems and Population Health: A Primer. Oxford
University Press. ISBN: 9780190880743 |
|
2018 |
Dister, C., R. Rajaram and B.
Castellani. “Modeling Social Complexity in
Infrastructures: A Case-based Approach to Improving Reliability and
Resiliency.” In E. Mitleton-Kelly, A. Paraskevas, and C. Day’s (Eds) Handbook of Research Methods in Complexity Science:
Theory & Application.
Edward Elgar Publishing |
|
2014 |
Castellani, B. Map
of Complexity Science. In “9th Iteration (2013):
Science Maps Showing Trends and Dynamics,” Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, edited by
Katy Börner and Todd N. Theriault. |
|
2013 |
Castellani,
B., C. Schimpf and F. Hafferty. “Medical
Sociology and Case-Based Complexity
Science: A User’s Guide.” In Martin and Sturmburg
(Eds) Handbook Of Systems and Complexity in Health.
Springer. pp. 521-535. |
|
2012 |
Hafferty, F. and B. Castellani. “Theories of
Social Relations.” In Olle Sahler
and John Carr’s
(Editors.) The Behavioral Sciences
and Health Care, 3rd Edition, Cambridge MA: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F.W. and Castellani, B. “The
Two Cultures of Professionalism: Sociology and Medicine.” In The Handbook of Health,
Illness and Healing: Blueprint for the 21stCentury,
Bernice Pescosolido, Jack Martin, Jane McLeod,
and Anne Rogers (ed.).
New York: Springer. |
|
2009 |
Hafferty, F.W. and Castellani, B. “The Hidden
Curriculum: A Theory of Medical Education” In Handbook of the Sociology of
Medical Education, Caragh Brosnan and Brian S.
Turner (eds.). London: Routledge. |
|
2006 |
Castellani, B. and F. Hafferty.
“The
Complexities of Professionalism: A Preliminary Investigation.”
In Delese Wear and Julie Aultman’s
(Editors)) Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives. Kluwer Academic Publishers. |
|
2006 |
Hafferty, F and B. Castellani. “Medical
Sociology.” In Clifton Bryant and
Dennis Peck’s
(Editors) Handbook of 21st Century Sociology. California: Sage. |
|
2004 |
Castellani,
J. and B. Castellani. “Data Mining Process and Analysis Strategies for Special
Education Technology Decision-Making.”
In D. Edyburn, K. Higgins, & R.
Boone (Editors), Handbook of Special Education Technology.
Milwaukee, WI: Knowledge
by Design, Inc. |
Invited Commentaries
|
Year |
Article or Book Chapter |
|
2020 |
Caiado, C., Castellani, B., Heckels,
N. Applying
research to the COVID response: how Durham University modelling is helping
local planning. Universities Policy Engagement Network. |
|
2020 |
Castellani, B and Caiado,
C. Coronavirus:
why we need local models to successfully exit lockdown. The Conversation. May 18, 2020 10.18am BST. |
|
2014 |
Castellani. B. “Complexity and the Failure of Quantitative
Social Science.” Discover
Society. |
|
2014 |
Castellani, B. “Fifteen Years a Complexity Scientist.” Theory, Culture & Society. |
|
2010 |
Castellani,
B. “Complexity Art: An Introduction to
the work of Damon Soule.” In Mars-1, Edonna, Vernon, Matsuyama, Soule, Choong Lee and
Hardgrave’s Further. New York.
|
|
2001 |
Castellani, B. “Is Pathological Gambling Really a Problem?–You Bet!” Psychiatric Times, 28(20):64-66. |
|
1995 |
Rugle, L., and B.
Castellani. “Understanding and Treating Pathological Gambling.” Treatment
Today, 7(3), 7-9. |
Book Reviews
|
Year |
Article |
|
2013 |
Castellani, B. “The Transformation of Contemporary
Healthcare: The Market, the Laboratory, and the Forum by Tiago Moreira.” April 2013, Sociology of Health and Illness. |
|
2012 |
Castellani, B. “Social Understanding: On
Hermeneutics, Geometrical Models and Artificial Intelligence (Theory and
Decision Library A:).”
Journal of Artificial Societies
and Social Simulation |
|
2010 |
Castellani, B.
“A Review of Mind and Society: Special Issue on
Social Simulation, Volume 8, Number 2, 2009.” Journal of Artificial Societies and Social
Simulation. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B. Adolescent Gambling,
Is It a Problem? A Review of a Recent Book by Griffiths. Addiction, 91(10): 1556-1557. |
Educational
Websites, Software Apps and Blogs
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Map of the Complexity Sciences (Website) |
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COMPLEX-IT, a freeware R-Studio App (Website) |
RECENT GRANT ACTIVITY
|
Year |
Grant |
Award |
|
2023 |
PI. Bridging the Gap -
Research Training. Consultancy, Services or CPD/Training (RC) - Consultancy
(CPD). County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust |
£34,107 |
|
2023 |
Co-I. EPSRC Digital Health Hub grant https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/digital-health-hub-pilot-scheme/ |
£4.1 mil |
|
2022 |
PI.
InSPIRE: A policy and research consortium to mitigate the impact that places
have on air quality and brain health, particularly dementia, across the life
course. ESRC IAA |
£15,000 |
|
2022 |
Co-I. Durham@ATI Network in AI and Data Science. Alan Turing Grant, EPSRC,
RF090107, RF200217 |
£24,644 |
|
2021 |
PI. InSPIRE: developing a policy consortium to address
the social determinants of clean air and brain health. ESRC IAA / |
£6,570 |
|
2020 |
PI. Agent-based modelling of COVID-19 in support of NHS
Trusts and Councils in the North East of England, ESRC, £16,133 |
£16,133 |
|
2020 |
Co-I. Grant to support the
Durham COVID-19 Community Health and Social Care Modelling Team, IBM. |
£15,000. |
|
2020 |
Co-I. Early Warning Scores: Modelling Care in Response to the Covid 19
Pandemic, MRC |
£34,719 |
|
2020 |
PI. UKPRP proposal:
MR/T045221/1 - InSPIRE: Innovating UK clean air policies to prevent
cognitive disorders across the lifespan, particularly for vulnerable urban
populations |
£41,000 |
|
2020 |
PI. Exploring the Complex Policy Landscape Around Air
Pollution and Public Health: A 2-Day Workshop 2019-20 QR Strategic Priorities
Fund, Durham University |
£15,000 |
|
2020 |
PI. Durham University Visiting
Scholar grant through International Office |
£2,000 |
|
2019 |
£1.3
mil |
|
|
2019 |
£3.8
mil |
|
|
2018 |
PI. Durham COMPLEX-IT: a web-based computational modelling
and visualisation platform and learning environment for evaluating public
policy and services. ESRC Impact Acceleration Fund, Durham University |
£9,400 |
|
2018 |
PI. The Ed and Carol Murray Social Justice Seminar:
Understanding Regional Complexity |
$9,200 |
|
2017 |
PI. CECAN Fellowship: The COMPLEX-IT App: linking
agent-based and case-based modeling for ex-post
evaluations and counterfactual analysis. (Fellowship
grant) |
£10,000 |
|
2014 |
Co-I. Exploring the
use social network analysis to understand faculty development impacts. AMEE Research Grant, 2014-2015, (PI) Lieff S, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto
Medical School (Research grant) |
$15,295 |
|
2013 |
Co-I. Complexity and Method in the
Social Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Research Seminars Competition 2012-2013. Economic
and Social Research Council, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies,
Warwick University. |
£29,603 |
|
2013 |
Co-I. Controlling Community
Health across Time: Cases, Regions and Densities versus Nodes, Sub-graphs and
Networks) Strategic Award, the Warwick Research
Development Fund, Warwick University, (PI) Emma Uprichard, Centre for
Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Warwick University. (Research grant) |
£9,709 |
|
2010 |
PI. Field Experience to Establish a Center for Complexity in Health. Professional Development
Award, Regional Campuses, Kent State University. |
$10,000 |
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
|
Year |
Presentation |
|
2024 |
Digital Health Literacy for healthy ageing in Japan and
UK - RENKEI HEALTH
WORKSHOP 18-20 MARCH 2024 Southampton, UK
|
|
2023 |
COMPLEX-IT:
A User-friendly platform for Combining QCA and Case-based Computational
Modelling. 11th International QCA workshops, 12-14 Dec 2023
|
|
2023 |
Air Pollution and the
Exposome: A Complexity Perspective. Health and the Environment
Workshop, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam.
|
|
2023 |
Mitigating the impact
of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda
(University of Suffolk, Together for Transformation Conference)
|
|
2023 |
The Atlas of Social
Complexity: Mapping Complexity’s Adjacent Possible (Workshop at Nelson
Mandela University)
|
|
2023 |
Early Life Brain
Development, Air Pollution and the Exposome: A Complexity Perspective
(Lecture at Nelson Mandela University)
|
|
2022 |
COMPLEX-IT: A
software package for case-based temporal analysis, including the usage of QCA
|
|
2022 |
Health CASCADE
Workshop: Co-producing complex systems interventions for public health
|
|
|
Mapping Complexity’s
Adjacent Possible: Where Are We (Not) Headed? For the the Radboud Interfaculty
Complexity Hub.
|
|
2022 |
The emergence of
SMART methods -- non-expert platforms for social science and health research for the MethodsCon team and the National Centre for
Research Methods
|
|
2022 |
COMPLEX-IT for
rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research (MethodsCon University of Manchester) for the MethodsCon team and the National Centre for
Research Methods
|
|
2022 |
Case-based methods and agent-based
modelling: Bridging the divide to leverage their combined strengths. Faculti Media Limited. |
|
2022 |
How healthy places mitigate air pollution’s impact
on dementia and its
progression. Dementia Friendly
Environments Webinar, Healthy Happy Places, Academic Health
Science Network, North East and North Cumbria |
|
2022 |
Understanding and Tracking Health
Inequalities and Vulnerabilities Around Air Pollution. 2.5.22 Clean Air Research Futures Group: What research
is needed to understand and track inequalities. |
|
2022 |
Invited participant in
workshop on complexity, methods and public health. Institute for
Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam. |
|
2022 |
Case-based methods and agent-based
modelling: Bridging the divide to leverage their combined strengths. Complex Dynamic Interactions: Synergies
between ABM and QCA,
Lorentz Centre, University of Leiden |
|
2022 |
Smart Methods for Complex Policy
Evaluation Portland State University Noon
systems science and complexity seminar |
|
2022 |
Castellani, B., and D. Byrne Health Policy Evaluation: A complex systems perspective . Presentation for the third Systems Evaluation Network |
|
2021 |
Castellani,
B., and Fowler, T. ‘Western Civilization and Its Global Discontents in Pandemic.’ Disease, Community and
Communication from Antiquity to Today Conference, 19th June 2021, Durham
Univ. |
|
2021 |
‘On Complexity in the Collective Human Consciousness.’ The Building as Being Symposium part 2: The Mind. Waag, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
|
2021 |
‘Psychology and Complexity.’ ISCIA Seminar Series: Grappling with Complexity,
2021, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. 21st May 2021. |
|
2021 |
‘Exploring trajectories of comorbid depression and physical health’ -- Centre for Urban Mental Health and IAS Lecture University of
Amsterdam University of Amsterdam, 26th May 2021. |
|
2020 |
Castellani,
B., and Gerrits, L. Complexity's Futurescapes, a fellowship
lecture for the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam. 22 September 2020. |
|
2020 |
Castellani, B., and Gerrits, L. Complexity's Futurescapes, a fellowship lecture for the Institute of
Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam. 22 September 2020. |
|
2020 |
Castellani,
B., Schimpf, C., Barbrook-Johnson, P. COMPLEX-IT: User-friendly computational modelling software for
exploring complex policy data. 18 June 2020. CECAN Webinar |
|
2019 |
Is Public Health ready for
complexity? FUSE workshop on complexity in public health. |
|
2018 |
|
|
2017 |
Presentation at CECAN (Centre for
the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus) July 7th,
University of Surry. Title: COMPLEX-IT and
the SACS TOOLKIT: A Case-Based Computational Modeling
Platform for Data Mining Complex Issues in Policy and Evaluation |
|
2017 |
Presentation at CECAN (Centre for the
Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus) July 7th, London. Title: Addressing Complexity in
Nexus Issues: A Case-Based Approach to Evaluation Research
|
|
2016 |
Presentation at the Academy Health
Conference, Boston MA, June. Title: You Can Improve
Health by Modeling It As Complex. |
|
2014 |
Keynote Speech
“Modeling Complexity: A Case-Based Density
Approach.” Simplifying Assumptions in
Models of Complex Systems, University of Birmingham, 7 May 2014. |
|
2014 |
Keynote Speech 10th Annual Alberta Gambling Research
Institute's Conference. Banff, Alberta, April 4 and 5, 2014. |
|
2013 |
Castellani, B
and R. Rajaram 2013. “Modeling Big Data Longitudinally: The Importance of
Cases, Densities, Trajectories, and Complexity.” Invited presentation at the Centre for Interdisciplinary
Methodologies, Warwick University. November 2013 |
|
2013 |
Castellani, B and R. Rajaram 2013.
“Managing
the Dynamical Complexities of Community, Place and Health: Control Theory,
Network Science, Case-Based Modelling and Complexity Theory.” Centre for
Interdisciplinary Methodologies,
Warwick University. August 2013. |
|
2012 |
Master Class on
Complexity run with David Byrne, School
of Applied Social Sciences Seminar Series 2012-2013, Durham University. |
|
2011 |
Invited to be the guest speaker and
complexity methods expert for the National
Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation’s Roundtable on Professionalism
in Practice, USA. |
|
2011 |
Invited in
summer 2011 to co-chair a pre-conference session in Vienna on complexity
science and medical education at the 2011
Association for Medical Education in Europe Conference. |
|
2011 |
Invited, spring 2011, to present
on the SACS Toolkit at the Eighth
International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New
England Complex Systems Institute (NESI), Boston, MA. |
|
2001 |
Development of
Professionalism: Curriculum Matters. Joint
Meeting of the
Association for Surgical Education and the Association of
Program Directors in Surgery. Nashville, Kentucky, USA (Spring 2001). |
Conference Presentations
|
Year |
Presentation |
|
2019 |
Peter Barbrook-Johnson,
Corey Schimpf, and Brian Castellani. Be bold, be participative, be practical:
Reflections on the use of complexity-appropriate computational modelling for
public policy evaluation in the UK.” Conference on Complexity And
Policy Studies Research and Practice for Social Good in a Complex World,
Washington D.C. |
|
2018 |
Castellani, Brian. “Linking agent-based
and case-based modeling for ex-post evaluations and
counterfactual analysis.” CECAN Intra-project Meeting and Workshop. March |
|
2018 |
Castellani,
Brian. “Advancing case-based methods and QCA for modeling
dynamics.” CECAN Policy Evaluation for a
Complex World, July. |
|
2018 |
Castellani, Brian. “The complexity
perspective and why dynamic patterns are important.” 8th |
|
2017 |
Castellani, Brian. “The COMPLEX-IT App for modeling social complexity.” CECAN International Symposium on Complexity Approaches to Evaluate
Global Nexus Policy Challenges, November.
|
|
2016 |
Castellani, Brian. “Complexity, Cases
and Health.” 7th ESRC Research Methods
Festival, University of Bath, July. |
|
2014 |
Castellani,
Brian 2014. “Modeling Complex Systems: A Case-Based
Complexity Approach.” |
|
2013 |
Byrne, David, B. Castellani and E.
Uprichard 2013. “Understanding Complex Social Systems:
The Use of Multiple Methods to Provide
Multiple Perspectives.” 7th
Annual European Consortium Political
Research, Bordeaux France. |
|
2012 |
Hafferty, F and B.
Castellani 2012. “Medical School Mission Statements: An Analysis of Behavioral Science
Themes.” Association for the Behavioral Sciences and
Medical Education, 42nd Annual
Meeting, San Antonio, TX, October 4-6, 2012. |
|
2011 |
Castellani, et al 2011.
“Complexity, Professionalism and the Hidden Curriculum in Medical Education.” Pre-Conference
Workshop, at the International Association for Medical Education Conference, Vienna,
Austria. |
|
2011 |
Castellani, B
and R. Rajaram 2011. “Case-Based Modeling and the SACS Toolkit: A Mathematical Outline.” Eighth
International Conference on Complex Systems, hosted by the New England Complex Systems
Institute (NESI), Boston, MA, June 6th. |
|
2010 |
Castellani, B. and J. Castellani
2010. “The Reflexive Strengths of the SACS Toolkit for Modeling Complex Systems. International Sociological
Association Meetings, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F and B.
Castellani 2010 “Professionalism and Mayo: An Opportunity to Redefine
the Future of
Medicine,” Department of Medicine Grand Rounds and The S. Brenndan
Moore Annual Lecture, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, January 25, 2010. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F., Castellani B., and Antiel 2010 “New Tools for Mapping Medicine’s Modern Day Professionalism
Movement,” Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, February 4, 2010. |
|
2010 |
Hafferty, F., and B. Castellani 2010. “Decoding the
Learning Environment of Medical Education: A
Hidden Curriculum Perspective on Faculty Development as a Process of Tacit
Learning.” Background paper for a conference on A 2020
Vision of Faculty Education Development Across the Medical Education
Continuum, Baylor College of Medicine, TX, February 26, 2010. |
|
2009 |
Hafferty, F. and B. Castellani 2009 “The Complexities of Professionalism: A
Research Agenda,” Presentation in preparation for a special Flexner
Centennial Issue of Academic Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges,
Washington, D.C., April 20, 2009 |
|
2009 |
Castellani, B. Hafferty, F and Ball, M. “The
SACS Toolkit: E-Social Science from a Systems Perspective.” Sociocybernetics Conference,
Urbino Italy, June 2009. |
|
2008 |
Castellani, B. “Pareto, Schelling and Social
Mobility: Addressing the U.S. Housing/Financial Crisis.” ICAM Conference, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI,
November 2008. |
|
2008 |
Hafferty, FW and
Castellani, B. “Using Social Network Analysis to Study Medical
Education.” Pritzker School
of Medicine, October 24, 2008. |
|
2008 |
Hafferty, FW and Castellani, B. "Professionalism
as a Social Movement.” American
College of Physicians:
Internal Medicine
2008, Washington, D.C., May 15, 2008. |
|
2007 |
Castellani, B. “The Sociology and Complexity Website: An E-learning
Tool for Social Scientists.”
ICAM Conference, Center for the Study of Complex Systems,
Department of Physics, University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, November 2007. |
|
2007 |
Hafferty, FW and Castellani, B. “Professionalism and
the Hidden Curriculum.” Brody School of
Medicine, Greenville, NC, January 15, 2007. |
|
2007 |
Hafferty, FW and
Castellani, B. "The Hidden Curriculum: A Faculty Development
Workshop. Mayo Medical School,
Rochester MN, April 17, 2007. |
|
2007 |
Hafferty, F. and B. Castellani. 2007. "Exploring Professionalism: A Workshop
for Fourth Year Medical
Students." Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine, Ohio. |
|
2005 |
Castellani, B.
2005 Greed and the American Dream of Success.
Seven Deadly Sins Series.
Kent State University, Ashtabula Campus, Ashtabula, Ohio, USA. (Spring
2005). |
|
2005 |
Castellani, B. 2005. “The
Sociology of Complexity: Tools for 21st Century Sociology.” Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism
Conference.
Philadelphia, PA. |
|
2003 |
Castellani, B.
2003. “Teaching Culture to Medical Students.”
The Felix Padilla Conference on Teaching Diversity in Higher Education, KSU,
Ashtabula. |
|
2002 |
Castellani, B., and F. Hafferty 2002. “The New Professionalism in Medicine: What
Medical Sociology Has to Offer.” Organizer and
Presenter. The Annual American
Sociology Association Meetings. Chicago:
Illinois. |
|
2001 |
Hafferty, F., Eckenfelds, E., Castellani, B., and Calderon, J. 2001.
The Perils of Becoming an Altruistic
Physician: The “Me” Generation Enters Medical School.” The 30th Annual Meeting of the Association for
the Behavioral Science and Medical Education. Cape Cod |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B. and D. Deckert 2000. What
Does Culture have to do with Mental Health? The 29th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Behavioral Science and Medical Education. Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
|
2000 |
Castellani, B.
J. Varley, and D. Deckert 2000. Isn’t Cultural
Sensitivity Just Competent Psychiatry?:
Teaching Culture to Psychiatry Residents. The
29th Annual Meeting of
the American
Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training. Puerto Rico |
|
1999 |
Castellani, B. and S. Lee Spray
1999. Decentralization and the Professional Practice of Medicine. The Annual American
Sociology Association Meetings.
Chicago: Illinois. |
|
1999 |
Calderon, Jose,
Fred Hafferty, Brian Castellani, Kenneth Wolf,
Nancy Chin, and Alicia Monroe 1999. AIME: Dvelopment of a Template for Auditing the Preparedness of
Medical Schools to
Conduct Programs in Cultural Diversity. 28th Annual Meeting of the Association for
the Behavioral Science and Medical Education. Savannah, Georgia. |
|
1999 |
Castellani, B. and B. Minogue
1999. “Managed Care and Foregoing Treatment.” Annual Bioethics Network of Ohio (BENO) Conference. Cleveland,
Ohio. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B
and P. Hartung 1998. Preparing Medical
Students for Careers in the Changing Health Care
Context. 27th Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Behavioral Science and Medical
Education. Jackson Hole, Wyoming. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B. 1998. Pathological
Gambling: A Case Study in the Sociology of Knowledge. The Annual American
Sociological Association Meetings.
San Francisco: California. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B.
1998 Pathological Gambling in Historical Context. The 12th National
Conference on Problem
Gambling. Las Vegas: Nevada. |
|
1998 |
Castellani, B. 1998. Pathological
Gambling, the Making of a Medical Problem.
The 5th Annual Florida Conference on Compulsive Gambling. Orlando,
Florida. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B.
1997. Pathological Gambling, the Birth of a New Medical Object of
Investigation. The 22nd Annual
Meeting of the Association for Humanistic Sociology. Pittsburgh, PA. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B. 1997. Discursive
Negotiations: A New Theory of Knowledge.
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism Conference. Toronto,
Canada. |
|
1997 |
Castellani, B.
1997. “Constructing the Classroom as a Postmodern, Student-Run Government.”’ The Annual
American Sociological Association Meetings. Toronto, Canada. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B. 1996. “Humanistic
Teaching Methods.” The 21st Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanistic Sociology. Hartford,
Connecticut. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B.
1996. “Symbolic Interaction and the Postmodern Terrain.” Discussant for four papers by
Stanford Lyman, Douglas Kellner, Jonathan Epstein, and Simon Gottschalk. Society
for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism Conference. New York. |
|
1996 |
Castellani, B. 1996. “Are the
Rules of Engagement Between Philosophy and the Social Sciences Hostile or Friendly: Comments from a
Sociologist of Knowledge.” The 3rd Annual Kent State University May 4th Philosophy
Graduate Student Conference. |
|
1995 |
Castellani, B.
1995 “Interpretive Archaeology: Knowledge, Power, and Social Practice.” The Association for
Humanistic Sociology Conference. Columbus, Ohio. |
|
1994 |
Castellani, B. and F. Falk 1994.
“Smoothing Polynomials Using Partial Least Squares Estimates.” The Midwest Sociological Association
Conference. St. Louis, Missouri. |
|
1994 |
Castellani, B.
and C. Ritter 1994. “Interaction Terms: Using Partial Least Squares
Estimates.” The Midwest
Sociological Association Conference. St. Louis, Missouri. |
TEACHING
|
The following is a list of all courses, modules, seminars
I have taught at Durham University (UK), Kent State University (USA) or
Northeast Ohio Medical University (USA) |
|
Introductory
Courses · Introduction to
Sociology (Kent State University) |
|
Health/Medical Sociology Courses · Sociology of Health and Health Care (Kent State
University) · Sociology of Health and Medicine (Durham University) · Culture and Psychiatry (Psychiatry Residency
Program, Northeast Ohio Medical University) · Sociology of Mental Health (Durham University and
Kent State University) · Drugs in Society (Kent State University) · Community Health Science Practicum (Northeast Ohio
Medical University) |
|
Methods and
Methodology Courses · Quantitative
Research Methods (Durham University) ·
Computational Social Science (Durham University) ·
Interdisciplinary
Perspectives and Practices across Social Research (Durham University) ·
Special Topics: Complexity Science and Method (Kent State
University) · Statistics/Data
Analysis (Kent State University) · Epidemiology
and Biostatistics (Northeast Ohio Medical University) · Advanced Data
Analysis (Kent State University) · Sociological
Analysis (Kent State University) · Researching
Society (Kent State University) |
|
Theory Courses · Sociological Theories (Kent State University) |
|
Social
Psychology Courses · Individual and
Society (Kent State University) |
|
Globalization/International Studies Courses |
|
Global Social
Problems (Kent State University) |
Recent Post-Graduate Students
(Dissertations and Theses)
|
Tengpeng Zhang |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology Department |
Durham University |
NA |
|
Anton Botha |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology Department |
Durham University |
2023 |
|
Mark Gurney |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology Department |
Durham University |
2022 |
|
Lasse Gerrits |
Doctoral Candidate |
Public Administration |
Erasmus University |
2018 |
|
Salem Othman |
Doctoral Candidate |
Computer Science |
Kent State University |
2018 |
|
Diana Kingsbury |
Doctoral Candidate |
Public Health |
Kent State University |
2017 |
|
Corey Schimpf |
Doctoral Candidate |
Systems Engineering |
Purdue University |
2015 |
|
Scot Tribuzi |
Doctoral Candidate |
Hospitality Management |
Kent State University |
2015 |
|
Victor Lee |
Doctoral Candidate |
Computer Science |
Kent State University |
2012 |
|
David Skubby |
Doctoral Candidate |
Sociology |
University of Akron |
2011 |
|
Corey Schimpf |
Masters Candidate |
Sociology |
Purdue University |
2010 |
CURRENT SERVICE ACTIVITIES
|
Year |
Project |
|
2017 – present |
Routledge, Complexity in Social Science
Series · Editor |
|
2016- present |
International Journal for Social
Research Methods ·
Editorial
board (2021 – present) ·
Former
Editor (2018-2021) |
|
2021 - present |
Clean Air Future Group, Clean Air
Programme, UK · Group member |
|
2012- present |
Horizon Europe: The EU Framework
Programme for Research and Innovation ·
External
reviewer |
|
2018 - present |
FUSE The Centre for Translational Research in Public
Health · Durham
University representative and member |
|
2022 – present |
NIHR School of Public Health Research ·
FUSE
representative and member |
|
2022 - present |
Research Design
Service, North East and North Cumbria · As
director of DRMC I help to oversee Durham’s part in these activities,
including staff management and grant assistance. |
|
2019 |
SIPHER Consortium, Systems Science in Public Health and Health
Economics Research ·
Advisory
board member |
|
2011-2013 |
Stress
Resilience in Virtual Environments: The STRIVE Project. Principal Investigator: J. Galen
Buckwalter. The Telemedicine and Advanced
Technology Research Center (TATRC),
U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC). · Consultant |
|
2012 |
Office of Naval Research Stress Sensing Project. Principal Investigator: J. Galen Buckwalter. Office of Naval Research. ·
Consultant |
|
2022 - present |
DURHAM UNIVERSITY · Administrative o Director, Durham Research Methods Centre o Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health
and Wellbeing |
|
2019 - present |
DURHAM
UNIVERSITY ·
University
Committees o Member, Health@Durham Strategy Steering group (2020
– present) o Member, Health@Durham Health Education group (2020 –
present) o Member, Search Team for Assistant/Associate Professor,
Social Data Science (2021) o Member, Curriculum committee, MA in Data Science
(2020 – present) o Member, Curriculum reform committee, MARM (2020 –
present) o Member, Durham Research
Methods Centre committee (2019 – present) o Member, PGT Directors
Committee (2019 – present) o Fellow, Durham Research
Methods Centre (2019 – present) |
|
2018 - present |
DURHAM UNIVERSITY · Department
Committees ·
Director, MA in Social Research Methods (2019 –
present) ·
Member, Promotion and reappointment committee (2018
– present) ·
Member, Education committee (2018 – present) ·
Member, Search and Hiring committee for
Assistant/Associate Professor (2019 – 2020) ·
Lead, Health and Social Theory Research group (2018
– present) |
HONORS AND AWARDS
2013 Complexity
Map was selected to become part of the
National Science Foundation’s Science Maps Showing Trends and Dynamics (2013)
for the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science
2012 Nominated
for the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, Kent State University
2010 Nominated
by Provost of Kent State University to compete in the 2010 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching U.S.
Professors of the Year Award.
2010 Received
the Academic Medicine Classics Award
(given by the journal to its highest citation articles) for my article “The
Development of Professionalism: Curriculum Matters”
2003 Inducted into Kent State
University Chapter of the Golden Key International
Honour Society.
2002 Nominated
for the Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Teacher Award.
2002 Faculty of the Year Award at Kent State,
Ashtabula.