Contact Dr Natalie Clewley
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 864539
- Email: natalie.clewley@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Dr鈥疦atalie鈥疌lewley is Senior Lecturer in Socio-Technical Systems and Head of the Complex Systems Group within the Centre for Defence and Security Management and Informatics, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 铁牛视频 University. She leads the group integrating Systems Thinking and Systems Engineering approaches in teaching, research and consultancy activities to address complex socio technical 鈥渨icked鈥� problems across a multitude of sectors.
Key capability areas: Systems Thinking; Complex Systems; Planning Effective Systems Interventions and Research; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning; Human鈥揂I Collaboration; Decision Making and Decision Support.
Application Areas: Defence and Security; Cyber Security; Public Health.
Research opportunities
Her research interests lie at the socio-technical interface, exploring how human thinking approaches鈥攕uch as Systems Thinking tools like Soft Systems Methodology, the Viable System Model, System Dynamics and Critical Systems Heuristics鈥攁nd machine technologies鈥攊ncluding Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining, and Information Fusion鈥攕hape human鈥搈achine collaboration in high complexity decision making environments. She is also experienced in the effective design and development of systems interventions and research projects in complex environments, promoting a holistic systems approach to appreciating the complexity inherent in complex social systems. Working within an interdisciplinary team spanning cognitive psychology, computer science, AI, systems thinking, and systems engineering, she applies these approaches to domains such as defence and security, cyber security, finance, organisational resilience, and public health.
Natalie earned her PhD in Information Systems Research from Brunel University London in 2011, where her doctoral thesis investigated the use of data mining to improve understanding of human learning in digital environments. As a Research Fellow in Cyber Security, she advanced the application of AI, machine learning, and information fusion to enhance decision making in cyberspace and complex operational contexts, collaborating with partners including UCL, the University of Essex, Ministry of Defence, Dstl, Roke Manor Research, Airbus, the Office for National Statistics, the Bank of England, and HMRC.
Since joining 铁牛视频 in 2017, she has led and contributed to competitively funded research projects, including:
- EPSRC 鈥� Copacetic Smartening of Data for Human like Computing (Principal Investigator) 鈥� 拢300k, developing intelligent cognitive training agents for complex environments such as cyber security and explosive ordnance disposal.
- NCSC 鈥� EPSAI (Principal Investigator) 鈥� 拢29k, establishing evidence based principles for secure artificial intelligence.
- UKPRP 鈥� GroundsWell (Co Investigator) 鈥� 拢7.12鈥疢, applying a systems approach to maximise health and wellbeing benefits from urban green and blue spaces.
- HMG 鈥� UKGov Collective Intelligence: 鈥楤rains Trusts as a Service鈥� (Co Investigator) 鈥� 拢101k.
Current activities
Natalie's current activities contribute to teaching, research and consultancy across the Complex Systems group. She was instrumental in the development of the Level 7 Systems Thinking Practice Apprenticeship and MSc, shaping its design and delivery during her tenure as Course Director 2022-2024. She teaches across many of the modules on the current course and currently leads the following modules: Modelling Social Systems, Systems Practice and Systems Intervention Planning. Alongside this, she has extensive experience in defence-related education, teaching on the Higher Command and Staff Course, Intermediate Command and Staff Course and Managing Defence in the Wider Security Context, as well as delivering systems thinking short courses to different organisations. Her teaching enables senior leaders to apply systemic approaches to strategic and operational challenges.
Her current research is focused around applying systems approaches in Public Health as a Co-Invesigator in the 拢7.1m UKPRP GroundsWell consortium. She is a journal reviewer for several journals within her areas of expertise and is currently organising a Special Issue in 'Systems Thinking for Real-World Problem Solving' for the MDPI Systems Journal. She supervises and examines PhD students within her areas of interest and expertise: Systems Thinking, Complex Systems, Cyber Security, Deception Detection.
She is recognised for her expertise in systems pedagogy, complex decision making environments and educational innovation. She was recently invited to give a talk at the Civil Service Special Interest Group in Systems Thinking and has presented to the AI and Systems Thinking Networks for the Department of Education.
Clients
Ministry of Defence (MoD)
Dstl
Roke Manor Research Ltd
Airbus
Bank of England
Janet
Bioss International
Office for National Statistics (ONS)
HMRC