Dr Kathy Kotiadis

About

Dr Kathy Kotiadis is a Reader in Management Science/Operational Research and is an expert in developing quantitative and qualitative modeling approaches to support stakeholder engagement, primarily in Health Care.
Dr Kotiadis is the co-founder of PartiSim, which stands for Participatory Simulation, an approach to support stakeholder involvement in the discrete event simulation modeling process. She has held academic positions previously at Canterbury Christ Church Business School where she was the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Impact. Prior to that she held Daphne Jackson Fellowship at the School of Computing (University of Kent) and was an Assistant Professor at Warwick Business School.

Research interests

Dr Kotiadis research interests revolve around the following key terms: discrete-event simulation; conceptual modelling; health care modelling; systems thinking; problem structuring methods; soft systems methodology; facilitation; multiparadigm multi methodology.

She is primarily interested in developing OR approaches that support the engagement of stakeholders in the modelling process.

She is the recipient of the UK OR society K. D. Tocher medal (Journal of Simulation) 2007-8.

She was awarded the prestigious Daphne Jackson (STEMM) Fellowship (2014).

She was also awarded an Engineering and Physical Research Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) (UK) grant EP/E045871/1 in 2007.

She was rated an outstanding reviewer in 2016 for EJOR (4 star ABS).

Additionally, she reviews for JORS (3 star ABS); Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems; Production Planning and Control; Journal of Simulation; Operational Research in Healthcare, Health Systems etc.