Senior Lecturer in Systems Thinking
<p>Martin is a co-founding member of, and lead academic liaison for, the Applied Systems Thinking in Practice (ASTiP) Group at the Open University. Research and scholarship activities are primarily focused on developing and applying ideas from the tradition of critical systems thinking (CST) and more generic systems thinking in practice (STiP) to evaluation, environmental management, organisational management, health practice, and international development. Current activities include funded research with colleagues developing a systems thinking in practice competency framework for professional recognition, and an alternative pedagogy for systems thinking in practice at the workplace. Other current research interests associated with sustainable development goals, health practice, conservation and evaluation, and social enterprise evaluations, are listed under international collaborations and external impacts. </p><p>Past research activities include involvement with US AID support for collaboration with partners in southern Africa to explore cooperative wetland management in Limpopo Basin; European funding to support Parliamentary involvement with developmental evaluation; ESRC– supported work in using critical systems heuristics for community wetland management in Guyana; EPSRC - supported work on critical systems thinking for energy security; and EU funding for supporting Social Learning in Water Management (SLIM). </p>
<p>Martin joined the Open University in December 2000 and is Qualifications Lead for the postgraduate programme in Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP).</p><p>Martin received his BSc (Hons) in Liberal Studies in Science at the University of Manchester in 1978. He gained his PhD in International Development at the Institute for International Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester in 1998. In the interim he taught Science at senior secondary schools in London and in Botswana. In 1999 he worked with Gerald Midgley on a postdoctoral research project at Hull University exploring the use of systems thinking for environmental management.</p><p> </p>
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<p>Martin joined the Open University in December 2000 and is Qualifications Lead for the postgraduate programme in Systems Thinking in Practice (STiP).</p><p>Martin received his BSc (Hons) in Liberal Studies in Science at the University of Manchester in 1978. He gained his PhD in International Development at the Institute for International Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester in 1998. In the interim he taught Science at senior secondary schools in London and in Botswana. In 1999 he worked with Gerald Midgley on a postdoctoral research project at Hull University exploring the use of systems thinking for environmental management.</p><p> </p>