James Shelley
Profile
Interests & Expertise
- Complexity theory and systems thinking
- Strategic and integrated communications
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Transdisciplinarity and research networks
- Narrative theory and storytelling
- Knowledge mobilization
- Evidence-to-implementation
- History of ideas
External Affiliations
- External Core Member, Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation (WICI), University of Waterloo
- Member, Integrated Knowledge Translation Research Network (IKTRN), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
- Member, Canadian Association of Research Administrators (CARA)
Brief Bio
James Shelley directs the Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) Lab, launched in early 2020 as an interdisciplinary hub for complexity and system scholarship across faculties and departments at Western University. An autodidact at heart, his personal research interests focus on the intersection of complexity theory, information, and communications, with a particular emphasis on developing systems-informed approaches to knowledge exchange/translation, implementation science, and research-to-action strategies. James is also a Knowledge Mobilization Specialist in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University.
