Professor Michael Pidd
Emeritus ProfessorProfile
See my personal web-site: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/smamp/index.html
Current Research
- Complementarity in systems modelling.
- High performance computers and computer simulation.
- Use of soft OR methods in policy making.
- Modelling to improve performance measurement in public services
Current Teaching
- Postgraduate: MSc OR: Computer Simulation, MSc E-Business & Innovation: Managing complexity
- Post-Experience: Lancord: Managing Complexity. Computer simulation
- Other Teaching Competence: Soft OR, Methodology of OR/Management Science, Operations Management.
Qualifications
B Tech Brunel, MSc Birmingham, PhD Lancaster
Research Grants
Current and recent research council funded projects:
- Advanced Institute of Management Research: ESRC funded fellowship used to examine performance measurement in public services. 2004/5
- Using high performance computers to simulate high speed manufacturing plant, funded by EPSRC, 2004-2006.
- Simulation modelling to assess the effects of NHS performance measurement on acute hospitals. EPSRC, 2005-2008.
Research Interests
- Discrete computer simulation methods, especially for large systems.
- Performance measurement in public services
- Improvement in public services, especially healthcare
- Soft OR and decision support.
Centre for Work Force Intelligence (External organisation)
Membership of board
Centre for Work Force Intelligence (External organisation)
Membership of board
Winter Simulation Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review
HEFCE (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Winter Simulation Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Winter Simulation Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Journal of the Operational Research Society (Journal)
Editorial activity
IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering (Journal)
Publication peer-review
INFORMS Transactions on Education (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Emergency Medicine Journal (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Some thoughts on model use in OR/MS
Invited talk
ESRC (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Victoria University of Wellington
Visiting an external academic institution
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Why model use matters in computer simulation (and in all OR)
Invited talk
Computers and Operations Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Why modelling matters
Invited talk
Winter Simulation Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience
Why modelling matters
Invited talk
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Journal of the Operational Research Society (Journal)
Publication peer-review
European Journal of Operational Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Annals of Operations Research (Journal)
Publication peer-review
International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Journal of Simulation (Journal)
Editorial activity
Interfaces (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Journal of Simulation (Journal)
Publication peer-review
SIMULATION (Journal)
Publication peer-review
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (External organisation)
Membership of committee
HEFCE (External organisation)
Membership of committee
Simulation Titan
National/international honour
Fellow of the British Academy of Management
Election to learned society
Companion of operational research
Election to learned society
Election as Academician
Election to learned society
- Health Systems
- Simulation and Stochastic Modelling
- STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training