My interests are to explore aspects of sustainability, resilience, and adaptive management in social-ecological systems using agent-based models and other simulation models.

Agent-based models of human behaviour, from cognitive modelling through to cognitively-rich social simulation.

I am interested in questions of method, and in the application of computational social models to a wide variety of national security questions (such as counterterrorism and counterinsurgency) as well as decision-making around complex natural resources such as water. My methods interest center on the use of qualitative social theory to inform the structure of computational social models, and the ways in which such models handle qualitative data. This raises questions around the nature of data and the ways in which computational social models convey information to decision-makers.

I use Agent-Based Models to understand contemporary fertility decision making in below-replacement fertility contexts.

Complex systems, agent-based modeling, social simulation, computational models, network models, network theory, methodology, philosophy of science, ontology, epistemology, ethics, artificial intelligence, big data analysis, geospatial data analysis,

My research involves the application of behavioral ecological models to archaeological problems with a focus on Pacific Island societies.

Game theory, artificial intelligence, agent-based models, genetic algorithms.

Using agent based models to look at ecosystem-based or integrated management of oceans and coastal zones

My research focuses on using generic social science in creating models of social reality, in particular self-organization of social systems.

I use agent-based systems, stochastic process, mass balance models and computational statistics in exploring human exposure assessment.