Prof Nigel Gilbert, FREng Authorised Biography – Debrett’s People of Today, Prof Nigel Gilbert, FREng Profile [proxy]

Career: lectr Univ of York 1974-76; Univ of Surrey: lectr 1976-84, reader 1984-91, prof of sociology 1991-, pro-vice-chllr 1997-2005, dir Centre for Research in Social Simulation; govr Nat Inst for Econ and Social Research; Nuffield sr res fellowship 1996; vice-chm Br Sociological Assoc 1995-98, dep chm Res Priorities Bd ESRC 1997-2000; CEng 1990, FBCS 1997, FREng 1999, AcSS 2000, FRSA 2005

Books and Publications: Modelling Society: an introduction to loglinear analysis for social researchers (1981), Accounts and Action (with P Abell, 1983), Opening Pandora's Box: a sociological analysis of scientists discourse (with M Mulkay, 1984), Social Action and Artificial Intelligence (with C Heath, 1985), Computers and Conversation (with P Luff and D Frohlich, 1990), Fordism and Flexibility: divisions and change (with R Burrows and A Pollert, 1991), Women and Working Lives: divisions and change (with S Arber, 1991), Researching Social Life (ed, 1992, 3 edn 2008), Analyzing Tabular Data: loglinear and logistic models for social researchers (1993), Simulating Societies: the computer simulation of social phenomena (with J Doran, 1994), Artificial Societies: the computer simulation of social life (with R Conte, 1995), Perspectives on HCI: Diverse Approaches (with A F Monk, 1995), Social Science Microsimulation (with K G Troitzsch, U Mueller and J E Doran, 1996), Humans, Computers and Wizards: Studying human (simulated) computer interaction (with R C Wooffitt, N Fraser and S McGlashan, 1997), Computer Simulations in Science and Technology Studies (with P Ahrweiler, 1998), Multi-agent Systems and Agent-based Simulation (ed with J S Sichman and R Conte, 1998), Simulation for the Social Scientist (with K G Troitzsch, 1999, 2 edn 2005), Agent-based Models (2007); also author of six other books and over 120 articles in learned jls