In April 2010, the University of Southampton was awarded over ã3million by the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) under its ââ¬ËComplexity Science in the Real Worldââ¬â¢ initiative to carry out a 5 year multidisciplinary research project on the ââ¬ÅCare Life Cycle: Responding to the Health and Social Care Needs of an Ageing Societyââ¬?. This research programme brings together teams of researchers from social sciences, management science and complexity science to develop a suite of models representing the socio-economic and demographic processes and organisations implicated in the UKââ¬â¢s health and social care provision. Integral to the project is working with our partners in the public sector and communicating the results of these models to policymakers allowing them to effectively plan for the future.