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The Virtual Worlds Group is a new consultancy with a mission to produce highly interative online materials that everyone can use, enjoy, learn and profit from. We:
We have long experience in these fields, gained developing successful services for commercial companies, the media, academia, and researchers, experience which has given us a unique combination of skills. Can we do what you need? Read more about us below, or use the links to go straight to the appropriate section. Do contact us if you want to know more about our services.
In conjunction with Landman Economics, we've just completed a major piece of work for the Welsh Assembly Government on modelling the finance of social care.
This is the most technically sophisticated model we've ever been involved in; indeed, we believe it to be one of the most complex microsimulation projects ever undertaken anwhere in the world. It uses British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) data to model demand for social care under many possible financing systems for up to 20 years
Built for the ADRS consultancy, in one of our most technically challenging project yet, four multi-period on-line simulation models of the South African economy are now live.
July 2012: these models have now been significantly upgraded, with new tax and welfare benefit modules, improved poverty calculations, new income tax output modules and a completely rewritten output graphics system.
December 2009 Here are two little interactive teaching simulations:
16th December 2009: Graham Stark been working on a wide ranging project organised by the United Nations University to help build microsimulation capacity in Africa. Models were built by teams from the countries themselves; Graham worked with the country teams to ensure the models were completed to a uniformly high standard and then build a sophisticated .
Virtual Worlds simulation models played a central part in modelling the extensions to eligibility to Legal Aid in Scotland. We produced detailed estimates of the likely costs of the reforms, and guidance on the optimal structure of the new contribution rates and income limits needed to maximise the amount of eligibility for legal aid given the available budget.
The model used is the latest in a family of microsimulation models of the Legal Aid systems of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales, using the Family Resources Survey as data. These model entitlements in great detail, and have sophisticated costs and takeup models which use disaggregated data on legal aid claims and payments, as well as unique optimisation routines which automatically find the best solutions for some combination of entitlements and costs.
Belgium may not have a government, but Mefisto, a collaboration between Virtual Worlds and the Universities of Leuven and Essex allows you to become the Belgian Chancellor.
Mefisto uses the Euromod system for its calculation back-end. This is the first time that a user-friendly interface has been succesfully built for the notoriously intractable Euromod system.
16th October 2009 We've just completed a major piece of work for the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator (OSCR) on modelling the ability the ability of beneficiaries to afford fees charged by charities.
You can read the papers here:
To accomplish this, we build a radical new form of simulation model which can be used to model the affordability of charges of all kinds on the general population.
In our Maze Green Yachts simulation, you become Chief Executive Officer of a major international yacht manufacturer. The shareholders are looking to you to run the company as profitably as possible during your three year term. Your job is to keep the company afloat, installing new technologu and competing with increasing foreign competition.
Now online is a web-enabled model of the Russian Tax and Transfer System, built by Virtual Worlds for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations.
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