ISCE Events: Introduction
One of the primary reasons for the existence of the ISCE Group is to encourage and facilitate cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration between different fields of academia and practitioners attempting to apply complexity-inspired concepts and frameworks in the field. This aim is achieved through our own inhouse research programmes and our publishing activities, but primarily through the organization of events. ISCE Events organizes three different sorts of events each with its own particular mode of operation:
  1. Workshops: these events are normally restricted to around 30 participants to encourage as much critical discussion as possible. The focus is not on individual presentations, but on different topics that provide the focus of interactive discussion periods. Usually a topic is briefly introduced by a presenter, whose paper would have been made available in advance of the event. This is then followed by a 1.5-2 hour period of discussion in which that particular topic/theme is explored. The aim of workshops is not so much the dissemination of knowledge but the examination of knowledge through intimate and critical reflection.
  2. Conferences: these are the usual bread and butter of an academic institution. The purpose is to present one's work and to listen to others' work on a particular topic. A secondary, but by no means unimportant, aspect of these events is networking. There is no size limit with such events with the focus being on knowledge dissemination and networking. More often than not some kind of proceedings (i.e. a collection of papers) is produced as a record of the event.
  3. Seminars: these events are quite different from the both workshops and conferences, in that their aim is to educate those unfamiliar with complexity thinking and to offer practical advice and analysis of real world problems to faciliate the move from academia to practice.

ISCE Events organizes all these different types of event, often in collaboration with one or more other institutions. If your institution is keen on co-hosting a complexity-related events with ISCE Events then please let us know and we'd be more than happy to offer any support we can.

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