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Systems Theory, Dialectical Critical Realism, and Boundary Spanning (Sophie Spitters)

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Systems Theory, Dialectical Critical Realism, and Boundary Spanning (Sophie Spitters)


Sophie Spitters is a Research Associate in the APOLLO Social Science team at Queen Mary University London, and will soon be taking up a new role within an interdisciplinary team at the University of Birmingham. She speaks about her journey from physics to psychology to the social sciences, and explains three ideas that have influenced her work and thinking. You can follow links to the texts that Sophie references below:




  1. Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1950): An Outline of General System Theory




  2. Alan Norrie (2010): Dialectic and Difference: Dialectical Critical Realism and the Grounds of Justice




  3. Catherine French (2016): Bench to Bedside? Boundary Spanning in Academic Health Science Centres




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