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

Personal Website

 

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)

·       Team Lead, COMPLEX-IT computational modelling and interdisciplinary methods software package and Case-Based Modelling Research Group

 

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs

Year

Monograph

2024

Castellani, B and L Gerrits. The Atlas of Social Complexity: Mapping the future of the field. Edward Elgar publishing. Forthcoming January 2024.

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

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

Name

Hits

Time period

Sociology and Complexity Science Blog (Blog)

332,500

2010 to 2023 May

Map of the Complexity Sciences (Website)

80,000

2009 to 2023 May

Social Complexity (Wikipedia Entry)

119,000

2015 to 2023 May

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

2,885

2017 to 2023 May

Complexity in Health and Infrastructure Group (Website)

3,579

2019 to 2023 May

InSPIRE Consortium website

1,000

2021 to 2023 May

 

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. Northern Health Futures (NortHFutures) Hub, EPSRC Embargoed 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

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 (Workshop grant)

$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

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

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 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

         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.”  7th 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.” 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

2023

Anton Botha

Doctoral Candidate

Sociology Department

Durham University

2022

Joe Nagle

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)

2018-2021

Complexity Governance and Networks

·       Editorial Board

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)