2022 July


This month as we say goodbye to our Deputy Executive Director, Felicity McLeister, she shares with us what she learned about OR during her time with The OR Society. Our Pro Bono OR manager Louise Allison talks about the valuable contribution our volunteers make to the third sector and we consider the variables in choosing an attack helicopter for a large institution.


Leader: What I’ll take with me. A layperson’s reflection on working with OR people

Felicity McLeister shares what she has learned during her time working for The OR Society.

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Pro Bono OR volunteers bring the power of OR to the third sector

Thanks to the support of Pro Bono OR volunteers, we have started 11 projects so far this year. Here is an overview of the new activity.

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Reinvigorating Soft OR 2022

In 2021, the Heads of OR and Analytics Forum (HORAF) discussed the impact that COVID-19 was having on their workload. Several members commented that the consequential loss of reliable historic date was causing them to utilise more soft OR approaches.

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The ARIA project

In March 2021, the UK government issued a policy statement with the rationale and intended purpose for the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). ARIA was created as a complement to the work of UKRI and is also intended to assist in the building on the government’s R&D Roadmap, published in July 2020.

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