Publications

My publications (well most of them), Google Scholar also keeps track, ORCID.

Publications – In Submission/Press

Mathematical Models of Extremism.
Bank of England.
Hillards Supermarket.

Commissioned Reports

Burton, S., McDermid, J. A., Garnett, P. & Weaver, R (2021). “Safer Complex Systems: An Initial Framework“. Commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering.

First Author Publications

Garnett, Philip, Simon Mollan, and Benjamin Richards. “Counter-hostility as defensive strategy in a hostile takeover: The acquisition of Hillards supermarket chain by Tesco.” Business History (2024): 1-23.
Garnett, Philip, Bob Doherty, and Tony Heron. 2020. “Vulnerability of the United Kingdom’s Food Supply Chains Exposed by COVID-19.” Nature Food 1 (6): 315–18.
Garnett, Philip. 2020. “Growing Smart Cities.” In From Astrophysics to Unconventional Computation: Essays Presented to Susan Stepney on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday, edited by Andrew Adamatzky and Vivien Kendon, 299–310. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Garnett, Philip. 2019. “Artificial Intelligence and Global Changes.” In Climate Action, edited by Walter Leal Filho, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli, Pinar Gökcin Özuyar, and Tony Wall, 1–10. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Garnett, Philip, and Sarah M. Hughes. 2019. “Obfuscated Democracy? Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Knowledge Curation.” Political Geography 68 (January): 23–33.
Garnett, Philip. 2018. “Total Systemic Failure?” The Science of the Total Environment 626 (January):684–88.
Garnett, Philip, Simon Mollan, and R. Alexander Bentley. 2017. “Banks, Births, and Tipping Points in the Historical Demography of British Banking: A Response to J.J. Bissell.” Business History 59 (5). Routledge:814–20.
Garnett, P., Mollan, S., & Bentley, R. A. (2015). “Complexity in history: modelling the organisational demography of the British banking sector.” Business History, 57(1), 182–202. doi:10.1080/00076791.2014.977876
Garnett, P. (2015). “A tipping point in 300 years of banking? A conceptual simulation of the British banking system.” Natural Computing, 14(1), 25–37. doi:10.1007/s11047-014-9467-0
Garnett, P. (2013). “Bursting a Bubble: Abstract Banking Demographics to Understand Tipping Points?” CoSMoS 2013, 61. UCNC13, Milan, Italy.
Garnett, P. (2012). “Going Around Again: Modelling Standing Ovations with a Flexible Agent-based Simulation Framework.” In P. R. M. Stepney Susan Andrews (Ed.), Complex Systems Simulation and Modelling Workshop (pp. 27–46). Orleans, France: Luniver Press.
Garnett, P., Steinacher, A., Stepney, S., Clayton, R., & Leyser, O. (2010). “Computer simulation: the imaginary friend of auxin transport biology.” BioEssays News and Reviews in Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, 32(9), 828–835.
Garnett, P., Stepney, S., Day, F., & Leyser, O. (2010). “Using the CoSMoS Process to Enhance an Executable Model of Auxin Transport Canalisation.” In S. Stepney, P. Welch, P. S. Andrews, & A. T. Sampson (Eds.), CoSMoS 2010 (pp. 9–32).
Garnett, P., Stepney, S., & Leyser, O. (2008). “Towards an Executable Model of Auxin Transport Canalisation.” In S. Stepney, F. Polack, & P. Welch (Eds.), Cosmos 2008 Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation (pp. 63–91). Luniver Press.
Garnett, P., Stepney, S., & Leyser, O. (2007). “Integrative Hybrid Modelling of Plant Shoot Branching.” In 5th International Workshop on Functional Structural Plant Models: FSPM07, New Zealand (pp. 9.1–9.5).

Other publications

Maria Bryant, Wendy Burton, Sundus Mahdi, Nicola Nixon, Sam J Buckton, Rob Oxley, Giorgia Prevadoli, Maddy Power, Philip Garnett. Understanding and applying food systems approaches to improve dietary health. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 1-27. 2025.
A Teixeira de Melo, L Renault, LSD Caves, P Garnett, PD Lopes. An AI tool for scaffolding complex thinking: challenges and solutions in developing an LLM prompt protocol suite. Cognition, Technology & Work, 1-43. 2025.
L Mansukoski, L Padgett, M Bryant, P Gansallo, P Garnett. P58 Pragmatic systems methods development–two case studies from the UKPRP ActEarly consortium. J Epidemiol Community Health 79 (Suppl 1), A66-A66. 2025.
Bryant M, Burton W, Collinson M, et al. Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a sustainable obesity prevention programme for preschool children delivered at scale ‘HENRY’ (Health, Exercise, Nutrition for the Really Young): protocol for the HENRY III cluster randomised controlled trial.
BMJ Open 2024;14:e081861. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-081861
Mansukoski, Liina, et al 2022. “Development of Public Health Core Outcome Sets for Systems-Wide Promotion of Early Life Health and Wellbeing.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19 (13): 7947 (Q1).
F Callard, D Kotouza, P Garnett, L Rocha (2022). “Mental health and wellbeing in universities in an age of digital capitalism.” SSM-Mental Health.
D Kotouza, F Callard, P Garnett, L Rocha, (2021). “Mapping mental health and the UK university sector: Networks, markets, data.” Critical Social Policy (Q1).
S Burton, JA McDermid, P Garnett, R Weaver, 2021. “Safety, Complexity, and Automated Driving: Holistic Perspectives on Safety Assurance.” Computer 54 (8), 22-32 (Q1).
Wright, John, Andrew Hayward, Jane West, Kate Pickett, Rosie M. McEachan, Mark Mon-Williams, Nicola Christie, et al. 2019. “ActEarly: A City Collaboratory Approach to Early Promotion of Good Health and Wellbeing.” Wellcome Open Research 4 (156): 156 (Q1).
Hughes, Sarah M., and Philip Garnett. 2019. “The Court-Martial of Chelsea Manning.” Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork, 164.
Teixeira de Melo, Ana, Leo Simon Dominic Caves, Anna Dewitt, Evie Clutton, Rory Macpherson, and Philip Garnett. 2019. “Thinking (in) Complexity: (In) Definitions and (mis)conceptions.” Systems Research and Behavioral Science 0 (0).
Billings, Mark, Simon Mollan, and Philip Garnett. 2019. “Debating Banking in Britain: The Colwyn Committee, 1918.” Business History, April, 1–23.
Ruck, Damian, R. Alexander Bentley, Alberto Acerbi, Philip Garnett, and Daniel J. Hruschka. 2017. “Role Of Neutral Evolution In Word Turnover During Centuries Of English Word Popularity.” Advances in Complex Systems 20 (06n07). World Scientific Publishing Co.:1750012.
D Ruck, RA Bentley, A Acerbi, P Garnett, DJ Hruschka. (2017) “Neutral evolution and turnover over centuries of English word popularity” arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10698.
A Skrebyte, P Garnett, JR Kendal (2016). “Temporal Relationships Between Individualism–Collectivism and the Economy in Soviet Russia A Word Frequency Analysis Using the Google Ngram Corpus.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol 47, Issue 9.
Ying Kei Tse, Minhao Zhang, Bob Doherty, Paul Chappell, & Philip Garnett. (2016). “Insight from the horsemeat scandal: Exploring the consumers’ opinion of tweets toward Tesco.” Industrial Management & Data Systems, 116(6), 1178–1200. doi:10.1108/IMDS-10-2015-0417.
Bentley, R. A., Maddison, E. J., Ranner, P. H., Bissell, J., Caiado, C. C. D. S., Bhatanacharoen, P., … Garnett, P. (2014). “Social tipping points and Earth systems dynamics.” Frontiers in Environmental Science, DOI=10.3389/fenvs.2014.00035.
Clark, T., Wright, M., Iskoujina, Z., & Garnett, P. (2014). “JMS at 50: Trends over Time.” Journal of Management Studies, 51(1), 19–37. doi:10.1111/joms.12040.
Acerbi, A., Lampos, V., Garnett, P., & Bentley, R. A. (2013). “The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books.” PLoS ONE, 8(3), e59030. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059030.
Bentley, R. A., Garnett, P., O’Brien, M. J., & Brock, W. A. (2012). “Word Diffusion and Climate Science.” PLoS ONE, 7(11), e47966. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0047966.
Droop, A., Garnett, P., Polack, F. A. C., & Stepney, S. (2011). “Multiple model simulation : modelling cell division and differentiation in the prostate.” In CoSMoS workshop Paris France. Luniver Press.
Polack, F. A. C., Droop, A., Garnett, P., Ghetiu, T., & Stepney, S. (2011). “Simulation validation: exploring the suitability of a simulation of cell division and differentiation in the prostate.” In S. Stepney, P. Welch, P. S. Andrews, & C. G. Ritson (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Complex Systems Modelling and Simulation, Paris, France, August 2011 (pp. 113–133). Luniver Press.