Kathyrn R. Fair
About me
Kathyrn R. Fair is a Senior Research Associate with the Computational Social Science group in the Public Policy Programme, and an ADR UK Research Fellow. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph. Kathyrn holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
Her work focuses on labour mobility, developing novel models and analysis techniques to describe the movement of individuals within the labour market and the factors that influence these movements (e.g. skills). This work makes novel use of economic microdata on jobs, allowing us to gain further insights from pre-existing datasets.
Kathyrn has previously developed models describing the coupled dynamics of human behaviour and SARS-CoV-2 transmission, climate change impacts on forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems, the growth of international food trade networks, and the interconnectedness of human population growth, food production, and trade. She also collaborated on projects exploring the gender wage gap within Canadian academia, definitions of resilience, and the mechanisms by which scientific consensus can be achieved.
Projects
- Labour Flow Networks
- Skills and Labour Mobility
- Detecting Firms’ Fringe Behaviour
- Skill Interaction and Complexity
- Emerging age structure for ABMs
Publications
Selected publications:
- Fair, K. R., Karatayev, V. A., Anand, M., & Bauch, C. T. (2024). Impact of population behavioural responses on the critical community size of infectious diseases. Theoretical Ecology, 1-12. Paper Code
- Fair, K. R., & Guerrero, O. A. (2024). A Method for Emerging Empirical Age Structures in Agent-Based Models with Exogenous Survival Probabilities. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 27(1), 8. Paper
- Fair, K. R., & Guerrero, O. A. (2023). Endogenous Labour Flow Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07979. Paper
- Fair, K. R., Karatayev, V. A., Anand, M., & Bauch, C. T. (2022). Estimating COVID-19 cases and deaths prevented by non-pharmaceutical interventions, and the impact of individual actions: A retrospective model-based analysis. Epidemics, 39, 100557. Paper Code
- Fair, K. R., Anand, M., & Bauch, C. T. (2020). Spatial structure in protected forest‐grassland mosaics: Exploring futures under climate change. Global Change Biology, 26(11), 6097-6115. Paper
- Fair, K. R., Bauch, C. T., & Anand, M. (2017). Dynamics of the global wheat trade network and resilience to shocks. Scientific reports, 7(1), 1-14. Paper
A full list of publications is available at Google Scholar.