CURRICULUM VITAE

Brian Castellani, PhD, FAcSS

Professor, Department of Sociology

Director, Durham Research Methods Centre, Durham University, UK

Co-Director, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing Durham University, UK

Visiting Professor, Nelson Mandela University, ZA

Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, US

Phone: +44 (0) 191 33 42232

E-mail: brian.c.castellani@durham.ac.uk

Personal Website

RESEARCH PROFILE: Social complexity; interdisciplinary methods; visual complexity;

environmental public health/mental health; environmental sustainability/just transitions, healthcare workforce;

air quality and brain/mental health; computational modelling; policy evaluation.

Education

1997 PhD Health Sociology, Kent State University

1992 MA Clinical Psychology, Fuller Graduate School of Psychology

1988 BA Psychology, Kent State University

Current Appointments

2018 to present Professor of Health Sociology, Durham University, UK

2005 to present Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Northeast Ohio Medical University, US

2024 to present Visiting Professor, Nelson Mandela University, ZA

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

· WHO-Durham Academic Lead, Working with WHO to re-established Durham University World Health Organization Collaborative Centre

in complexity and healthcare workforce modelling

· Academic Lead, Emerging Institutional Member, Mental Health Mission – Translational Research Collaboration (MH-TRC)

with Oxford and partners, from Sept 2025.

· Executive Committee and Senior Researcher, Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus

· Founder and Lead Developer, COMPLEX-IT Platform and Case-Based Modelling Research Group – directing locally, nationally and

internationally adopted software and methods infrastructure for case-based complexity research.

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Year	Monograph
2024	Castellani, B and L Gerrits. The Atlas of Social Complexity. Edward Elgar publishing.
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. SUNY Press.

Research and Policy Reports

Year	Article
2025	Ahmed, F., Aminu, A., Bellantuono, I., Boston, R., Brown, H., Buffel, T., Burden, S., et al., Castellani, B., Clarke, C., & Ziyachi, M. Ageing in the North: Building a roadmap for healthy longevity in northern England. Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA). Co-led Chapter 9 (“Dementia and Cognitive Frailty”), integrating environmental-health and social-complexity frameworks; contributed Durham data and analysis; strengthened interdisciplinary synthesis on inequalities in northern ageing.
2025	Royal College of Physicians. (2025). A breath of fresh air: Responding to the health challenges of modern air pollution. Royal College of Physicians. ISBN 978-1-86016-884-0. Co-authored Section 1.10 on brain and mental health impacts; synthesised evidence on air-pollution neurotoxicity, life-course cognitive outcomes, and dementia pathways for national policy recommendations.
2024	Academy of Medical Sciences & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Improving the resilience of health and public health systems to the impact of climate change: Learning from Japan and the UK. Academy of Medical Sciences and JSPS London. (Contributor: Brian Castellani – Case study presentation: “Building resilient healthcare: A case-based complexity approach to policymaking and evaluation for smarter decision making.

Visual Complexity Research / Exhibitions and Public Outputs

Year	Shows, Installations, Events, Exhibitions, Public Outputs
2025	Castellani, B. (2025, August 22). Entangled. Art–science project presented for the ISCIA Seminar Series: Horizon 2055, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. [Video presentation]. Sociology and Complexity Science (SACS) Website. https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/
2025	Castellani, B. (2025, September 17). From Assemblages to Tangles: A Public Lecture at Nelson Mandela University. Chair in Identities and Social Cohesion, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa. [Public lecture and art presentation]. Sociology and Complexity Science Blog. https://sacswebsite.blogspot.com/2025/09/from-assemblages-to-tangles-public.html
2012	ArtCares, Museum of Contemporary Art and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.
2012	Pedalling Art: A Celebration of Bicycle Art and Culture, Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland, 2012
2012	Cosmologies, Compositions and Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel. Archival project included in the Agency for Unrealized Projects (AUP). AUP is a project by e-flux and the Serpentine Gallery London devised by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones, Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle. Exhibition at daad galerie, Berlin Germany. 10 September to 20 October 2012.
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.
2011	Cleveland’s Skyline, Past and Wintertime Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Temporary Art Exhibition Program, 2010-2011.
2009	Festivus Show, Wall Eye Gallery, Cleveland, 2009.
1995	Beyond the Surfaces of Perception, Fawick Art Gallery, Kleist Center for Art & Drama, Baldwin- Wallace College—two person show with Ohio artist, Deborah Pinter.
1995	The Work of Brian Castellani, Zepher Café, Kent, Ohio
1994	Postmodernism & Beyond, Kent State University Student Center, Kent State, Public Works

Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

Year	Article
2025	Rajaram, R., Ritchey, N., & Castellani, B. On the Entropy-Based Localization of Inequality in Probability Distributions. Entropy, 27(9), 945.
2025	Castellani, B., Schimpf, C., Wistow, J., Caden, C., Agarwal, J., & Barbrook-Johnson, P. Case-based systems mapping: advancing a multimethod approach to social complexity. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 1-20.
2024	Rajaram, R., Ritchey, N., & Castellani, B. Mathematical diversity of parts for a continuous distribution. Journal of Physics Communications.
2024	Ziyachi, M., & Castellani, B. A ‘Cultural Models’ Approach to Psychotherapy for Refugees and Asylum Seekers: A Case Study from the UK. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21(5), 650.
2024	Rajaram, R., Ritchey, N., & Castellani, B. On the mathematical quantification of inequality in probability distributions. Journal of Physics Communications, 8(8), 085002.
2024	Russo, F., Broadbent, A., Castellani, B., Fustolo-Gunnink, S., Rod, N. H., Rod, M. H., ... & Uleman, J. (2024). A Pluralistic (Mosaic) Approach to Causality in Health Complexity. In The Routledge Handbook of Causality and Causal Methods (pp. 241-253). Routledge.
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	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
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) (p. 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	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
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.
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.
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	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.
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.
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 21^stCentury, Bernice Pescosolido, etc (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.
2009	Hafferty, F.W. and B. Castellani “A Sociological Framing of Medicine’s Modern-Day Professionalism Movement.” Medical Education, 43(9): 826-828.
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 21^st 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.
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.

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.
2014	Castellani. B. “Complexity and the Failure of Quantitative Social Science.” Discover Society.
2014	Castellani, B. “Fifteen Years a Complexity Scientist.” Theory, Culture & Society.
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

Sociology and Complexity Science Blog (Blog)

Map of the Complexity Sciences (Website)

COMPLEX-IT, a freeware R-Studio App (Website)

Complexity in Health and Infrastructure Group (Website)

InSPIRE Consortium website

RECENT GRANT ACTIVITY

Year	Grant	Award
	UNDER REVIEW
2025	European Commission – Horizon Europe (2026–30): “Integrated Mental Health Interventions for Young People” –international consortium bid.	If funded, £ 3.43mil to Durham (£49k to Sociology).
2025	Royal Society–Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (RS–JSPS) – “Establishing a UK–Japan Collaboration on Extreme Heat: Comparative Research for Resilient Health Systems” (2026–28) – bilateral grant fostering comparative climate-health resilience research with Institute of Science Tokyo	If funded, £11.8k to Durham Sociology
2025	UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – “REFRAME: Enhancing Health and Social Care Systemic Resilience to Shocks” (2026–28) interdisciplinary Geography–Sociology collaboration developing a new framework and prototype model for resilient health systems; bid under review.	If funded, £1.22mil to Durham (£75k to Sociology)
	FUNDED
2019 - 2026	National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) – Applied Research Collaboration, North East and North Cumbria (2019–26; renewed 2024 as NIHR Research Support Service) multi-partner regional network advancing applied research and innovation in health and social care; supplement award active.	£911k to Durham (£218k to Sociology)
2023	PI. Bridging the Gap - Research Training. Consultancy, Services or CPD/Training (RC) - Consultancy (CPD). County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust	£41,040
2023	Co-I. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) – “Northern Health Futures Hub” (2023–26) Interdisciplinary Sociology–Computer Science project developing digital infrastructure for regional health innovation; project live.	£4.1 mil, £159.8k to Durham (£109k to Sociology
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 to Durham
2022	Co-I. Durham@ATI Network in AI and Data Science. Alan Turing Grant, EPSRC, RF090107, RF200217	£24,644 to Durham
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	Co-I. Component-Specific Air pollutant Drivers of Disease Risk in Early to Midlife: a pathway approach. (DREaM) PI: Ian Mudway (KIng's College London). Project Start Date: 01/03/2019 Project End Date: 01/03/2021.	£1.3 mil
2019	Co-I. CECAN - Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus. PI: Prof. Nigel Gilbert. ESRC. Start Date: 03/2019. Project End Date: 03/2021.	£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 AND TALKS to Advisory Panels, Academics, Stakeholders

Year	Presentation
2025	From Assemblages to Tangles - A Public Lecture at Nelson Mandela University, Nelson Mandela University Sept 2025
2025	Social Complexity Retreat at Nelson Mandela University, Nelson Mandela University Sept 2025
2025	Entangled. An art project developed for the ISCIA Seminar Series - Horizon 2055, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
2025	Peter Erdi's Two-Part Interview on The Atlas of Social Complexity
2025	The value of COMPLEX-IT methods platform for modeling workforce optimization and resilience to poly crisis in the NHS
2025	Exploring the value of R-programming through COMPLEX-IT to create user-friendly platforms for modelling healthcare issues in the NHS
2025	Q&A on the impact of air pollution on mental health and brain health, from early-life to later-life
2025	KEYNOTE ADDRESS for WHO symposium on modelling and optimizing the health and care workforce: Complexity Thinking for Equitable and Resilient Healthcare Workforces
2025	Presentation on Air Quality and Brain Health for the Scottish Government advisory board, Scottish Air Quality Seminar - Air Quality Database and Website Project run by Ricardo.
2025	The value of COMPLEX-IT methods platform for case-based approaches to work at Darlington Economic Campus, May 2025.
2025	Advancing a social complexity imagination to disrupt place-based health complexities -- IRSPM Conference Presentation
2025	Air Pollution, Brain Health and Dementia. Presentation at the Scottish Air Quality Annual Seminar 2025
2025	The role of a social complexity imagination in the sciences, arts and humanities the Imaginary Institute, The Centre Leo Apostel, University of Brussels
2025	COMPLEX-IT for health policy. The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, January 2025 Northumbria University, Newcastle.
2024	COMPLEX-IT: Enabling Non-Experts to Leverage Advanced Computational Modelling for Policy Evaluation and Decision Making, Midlands Analyst Network Huddle as part of the NHS Strategy Unit.
2024	COMPLEX-IT for health policy. The Future of Evaluation in Health and Social Care, January 2025 Northumbria University, Newcastle.
2024	Improving the resilience of health and public health systems to the impact of climate change: learning between Japan and the UK. The UK Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) International Policy Arm and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) London
2024	Controversies, Pitfalls and Promises of AI in Health Care in South Africa -- Public Lecture Nelson Mandela University
2024	COMPLEX-IT workshop, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
2024	Why is it so hard to think about the impact of climate change and environmental exposure on brain health? For the series, What Were We Thinking? Run by Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
2024	Invited talk on the Atlas of Social Complexity at the FRCCS 2024 (French Regional Conference on Complex Systems) in Montpellier, France.
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	Castellani, B. SMART METHODS FOR COMPLEX POLICY EVALUATION. Systems Science Seminar Series. Portland University, USA.
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. 21^st 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, 26^th 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	You can improve social science by modelling your topics as complex. Presentation to the Q-Step Centre, Cardiff University.
2017	Presentation at CECAN (Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus) July 7^th, 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 7^th, 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 Workshops Run and Conference Presentations

Year	EVENT
2024	Ran the Second Workshop on Computational Diplomacy and Policy (CodiP) at 24th International Conference on Computational Science), Malaga Spain, Mike Lees, Roland Bouffanais.
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.” 8^th ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath, July.
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.” 7^th ESRC Research Methods Festival, University of Bath, July.
2014	Castellani, Brian 2014. “Modeling Complex Systems: A Case-Based Complexity Approach.” European Conference on Complex Systems, Lucca Italy
2013	Byrne, David, B. Castellani and E. Uprichard 2013. “Understanding Complex Social Systems: The Use of Multiple Methods to Provide Multiple Perspectives.” 7^th 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, 42^nd 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 6^th.
2010	Castellani, B. and J. Castellani 2010. “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, 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 21^st 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.” The Annual American Sociology Association Meetings.
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 30^th 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 29^th 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 29^th 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: Development 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)

Global Social Problems (Kent State University)

Recent Post-Graduate Students (Dissertations and Theses)

Tengpeng Zhang	Doctoral Candidate	Sociology Department	Durham University	2024
Anton Botha	Doctoral Candidate	Sociology Department	Durham University	2024
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
2025- present	Advisory Board Member, Copenhagen Complexity Health Center
2017 – 2024	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
2018 – present	Grant Reviewer Ad hoc for Austria, Netherlands, UK, South Africa.
2022 – 2024	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 - 2024	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
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 – 2021
2018 - present	DURHAM UNIVERSITY · Department Committees · Director, MA in Social Research Methods (2019 – present) · Member, Promotion and reappointment committee (2018 – 2021, 2025 - present) · Member, Education committee (2018 – 2021) · Member, Search and Hiring committee for Assistant/Associate Professor (2019 – 2020) · Senior Member, Health and Social Theory Research group (2018 – present)