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Dr Marion Penn

Research Fellow

Following my BSc. in Mathematics at Bristol University, I worked as a PCT Information Analyst and then as a maths teacher, before taking a MSc. in OR at the University of Southampton.

My MSc. Dissertation applied System Dynamics to project demand for social services locally and consider possible interventions to manage local challenges and I received an Award for Excellence for this work.

My PhD., also at Southampton University, explored various aspects of hospital operating theatre scheduling. This included applying multi-objective mixed integer programming to the development of master theatre timetables and using Discrete Event Simulation to compare the effects of using a wide range of booking algorithms for the scheduling of individual operations.

After a couple of years as a Teaching Fellow in OR I am enjoying a returning to applied health care problems in the CLAHRC. Her research interests are applying simulation and linear/integer programming and qualitative OR methods such as cognitive mapping and influence diagrams, in healthcare. I am particularly interested in projects combining mixtures of these methods to the same problem and the additional insight that this generates.

Affiliation

University of Southampton, Health Sciences, Wessex CLAHRC

Area

Health Services

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