Jennifer Wilby

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Jennifer M. Wilby (born 1953) is an American and UK

management scientist, past director of the Centre for Systems Studies, and a senior lecturer and researcher in management systems and sciences at The Business School, University of Hull. She served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
for the term 2010–2011.

Biography

Jennifer Wilby received a BA in political science in 1978 from the University of California, Riverside, and a MSc in cybernetic systems from San José State University in 1992. In 1999 she also received a MPH in public health from the University of Leeds, and in 2007 a PhD in management systems at the University of Hull.

In 1978 Wilby started working in

database programming and textbook publishing. From 1994 to 1997 she worked as a research assistant in the Centre for Systems Studies at the University of Hull and then from 1997 to 1999 at the University of Lincoln. From 1999 to 2004 she was a research fellow at the University of York in the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, undertaking systematic reviews of health care interventions on behalf of the Department of Health (NICE). Since then, she has been a director of the Centre for Systems Studies and a senior lecturer and researcher in management systems and sciences at The Business School, University of Hull. From 2007 to 2009, she also held a part-time EPSRC post-doctoral fellowship researching the EmergeNet Emerging Sustainability Project.[1]

Wilby is currently vice president for administration for the

Sir Geoffrey Vickers Memorial Award. In the year July 2010 to 2011, she served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) and hosted the ISSS conference in 2011 at the University of Hull, Hull, UK,[2] and is currently president of the United Kingdom Systems Society (UKSS). In 2013, Wilby was inducted into the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences
(IASCYS).

She also editor of Systema, the Bulletin of the International Society for the Systems Sciences and book reviews editor of Systemic Practice and Action Research.[1]

Work

Wilby's research interests is

general systems theory and critical system theory and practice. This research includes a "systematic and critical review of systems methodologies; hierarchies in organisations; and the use of general system theory and critical systems theory in informing the development of international health policies that reflect both hard (technical) and soft (social) elements in a problem situation".[3][4]

Publications

Jennifer Wilby has published several books, papers and articles.[5] A selection:

References

  1. ^ a b c Dr Jennifer Wilby Biography. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
  2. ^ ISSS Board of Directors. Accessed August 31, 2010.
  3. . p.xv.
  4. ^ Dr Jennifer Wilby Research. Retrieved June 5, 2009.
  5. ^ ScientificCommons Jennifer Wilby Publication List Details 2002 - 2008. Retrieved June 5, 2009.

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