In the field with complexity - Jody Aked
Channel: Institute of Development Studies
Date: 18/02/2019

In 2012 Jody went to the Philippines to study collective action on the environment, inspired by complex systems accounts of behaviour and social change. Some years later (!) she’s able to share what she learned about using complexity in development. 

Drawing on examples from her participatory study, she will give practical ideas about how to use complexity in design, execution and analysis of social change, while keeping rigour and risk in check. She will try and show something of the richness of what she was able to do and see with a complexity approach, and where reverting to a traditional social science paradigm would have come up short.