An updated map of Monday’s Indicative Votes but including last week’s votes for the Withdrawal Agreement. Note more analysis here: https://duncanrobertson.com/2019/03/28/mapping-brexit/ This network map shows each MP that voted for each of 5 propositions: Parliamentary Sovereignty, Confirmatory Public Vote, Customs Union, Common Market 2.0, or the Withdrawal Agreement. The large dots show the number of …
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Mapping Brexit
Wednesday’s indicative votes in the House of Commons produced no definitive answer of the way forward. By using social network analysis showing the size of each voting bloc and ‘Hamming distances’ (ironically usually used for error correction), we can map how close MPs are to each other, giving an indication of how a coalition could …
Data used for Brexit Map
00000001 Alan Duncan Angus Brendan MacNeil Mike Freer Pete Wishart 00000010 Amanda Milling Andrew Griffiths Andrew Murrison Anne Marie Morris Bob Seely Chris Heaton-Harris Craig Tracey Craig Whittaker Daniel Kawczynski David Davis Greg Knight Ian Liddell-Grainger Jack Lopresti Jackie Doyle-Price Jake Berry James Morris John Baron John Redwood Johnny Mercer Kelly Tolhurst Kwasi Kwarteng Maggie …
Spatial Transmission Models Paper Available
The full text of the Spatial Transmissions Models: A Taxonomy and Framework paper can be found on the Risk Analysis journal website or here.
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College Membership
I am very pleased to have been invited to join the Peer Review College for the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) Future Leaders Fellowships. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) ‘is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK. Operating across the whole of the UK with a combined budget of more than £6 …
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Spatial Transmission Models: A Taxonomy and Framework
This paper , published in the journal Risk Analysis, sets out a review of the different methods used for modelling the spread of an idea, disease, etc. over space. ABSTRACT Within risk analysis and more broadly, the decision behind the choice of which modelling technique to use to study the spread of disease, epidemics, fires, technology, rumors, or …
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Mintzberg and Waters (1985)
In my first YouTube tutorial video, we look at Mintberg, H. and Waters, J. A. (1985) ‘Of Strategies, Deliberate and Emergent’, Strategic Management Journal, 6(3), 257-252 https://youtu.be/X-Qm09MAacI
A YouTube Reading List for Practitioners and Students of Management
One of the issues with strategic management (and business management more generally) is that the folklore of academic writing is passed down the generation, from professor to student, without a critical reading of the original works, or without a read at all. Business text books excerpt the salient points from academic articles, and can miss …
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PhD Studentship in Modelling Dynamic Responses to Dynamic Threats at Loughborough University [applications now closed]
I am co-supervising the following PhD project – the application link and further details can be found here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/funded/modelling-dynamic-responses/ . The closing date is 14 December 2017. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this opportunity. One of the most challenging issues for policy makers dealing with bio-security threats is their dynamic …
Why The Mayor of Houston Was Right to Not Evacuate the City
Right now, Houston is going through one of the most severe storms ever to hit the USA. The main conversation on today’s news was whether the Mayor (who has authority to do such things) should have evacuated the City prior to the arrival of Hurricane Harvey. For a start, NOAA did not forecast a direct …
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