Tina Balke

Tina Balke is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Social Simulation at the University of Surrey. Her background is in Business Administration and Computer Science. She tries to combine methods from these domains and sociology to conduct research in the field of normative systems, policy analysis, agent-based modelling and institutional economics. Her current research interests are centred around normative systems and human behaviour in the face of policies and norms (with a special focus on Energy Policy/Governance). She is in particular interested in the question of compliance and the analysis of social and economic aspects of policies and norms.

Centre for Research in Social Simulation
Department of Sociology
Guildford
GU2 7XH
United Kingdom

Email: t.balke@surrey.ac.uk
Web: http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/web/people/researchers/65-Tina-Balke

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Nigel Gilbert

Nigel Gilbert is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey and has a special interest in computational social science. He was one of the first social scientists to use agent-based models, in the early 1990s, and has since published widely on the methodology underlying computer modelling, on basic issues in social science that can be addressed effectively using such models, and on the value of simulation for applied problems such as understanding commercial innovation and managing environmental resources. Professor Gilbert is also interested in the sociology of scientific knowledge and in complexity science.

Department of Sociology
Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
Stag Hill
Guildford
GU2 7XH
United Kingdom

Email: n.gilbert@surrey.ac.uk
Web: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sociology/people/nigel_gilbert/

Please direct correspondence about this article to Nigel Gilbert