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Book launch: Timeless Lessons, by Dr Mannie Sher

Celebration of the memoir Timeless Lessons: A Psychotherapist’s Journey and Insights for His Family
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Timeless Lessons: A Psychotherapist’s Journey and Insights for His Family

Dr Mannie Sher's new book
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Measuring and Evaluating Success in the Scottish Just Transition

This world-first framework for measuring Just Transitions is already gaining traction in Scotland and beyond.
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Monographs from the Tavistock Institute

Explore the story of the Institute with Dr Eliat Aram and Dr Mannie Sher


On being an Orphan | On being 70 and Older | The Eric Miller Memorial Lecture
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The History Safe toolkit: an oral history resource

This oral history toolkit is an accessible guide to the 'sustained relational approach' for those working with people and communities.
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The Systems Psychodynamics trilogy

75-plus years of learning and practice have been distilled into three accessible and highly readable books by Dr. Mannie Sher and Dr. David Lawlor
A book titled "Strategic Thinking, Design and the Theory of Change" by Luca Simeone, David Drabble, Nicola Morelli, and Amalia de Götzen. It's about designing impactful social interventions. The cover features abstract yellow and orange shapes.
Strategic Thinking, Design and the Theory of Change

Theory of Change is a strategic design tool to foster innovation and impact. Contributions from over 30 leading authors and co-edited by Dr David Drabble.
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Measures to tackle labour shortages: lessons for future policy

The 2023 Eurofound report finds that pay, working conditions and quality of life measures are important alongside investment in training plus holistic support for vulnerable groups.
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The Ecosystem of Group Relations: latest in our Belgirate series

Culture, Gender and Identity in Groups and Organisations, co-authored by contemporary Group Relations thinkers
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For the digital age — an Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics

This book describes this new and expanding paradigm – bringing together the social-technical and the people dimensions for the first time. 
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Dreaming Of Compassion
Archer, C (2021) ‘Dreaming Of Compassion’. In K. Waddington (ed.) Towards the Compassionate University: From Golden Thread to Global Impact. London: Routledge.
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Policy Evaluation for a complex world

Special issue of the Evaluation Journal dedicated to the work of CECAN – the Centre for Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus.
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The Magenta Book

New government handbook on evaluation now includes guidelines on how to handle complexity in policy evaluation.
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The Vocational Potential of Anthropology: Teaching Organisational Research Through Practitioner Archives
Cory Pearce. E. and Scott J., (2020).  'The Vocational Potential of Anthropology: Teaching Organisational Research Through Practitioner Archives' in  Teaching Anthropology, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 10-24.
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The Experience of Being 70 or Over
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On Being an Orphan – an untold story
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Dynamics at Boardroom Level
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New ground-breaking research emerging from EmerGent

Six papers reporting the research outcomes from the EmerGent project that looks at social media use in emergencies.
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Data mining Twitter during the UK floods: Investigating the potential use of social media in emergency management
Spielhofer, T., Greenlaw, R., Markham, D., & Hahne, A. (2016, December). Data mining Twitter during the UK floods: Investigating the potential use of social media in emergency management. In Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), 2016 3rd International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
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Social media in emergencies: A representative study on citizens’ perception in Germany
Reuter, C., Kaufhold, M. A., Spielhofer, T., & Hahne, A. S. (2017). Social media in emergencies: A representative study on citizens’ perception in Germany. Proceedings of the ACM: Human Computer Interaction (PACM): Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 1(2), 1-19.
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Towards social resilience: A quantitative and qualitative survey on citizens' perception of social media in emergencies in Europe
Reuter, C., & Spielhofer, T. (2017). Towards social resilience: A quantitative and qualitative survey on citizens' perception of social media in emergencies in Europe. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 121, 168-180.
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Studie: Wie sehen Mitarbeiter von Feuerwehr und THW den Einsatz sozialer Medien in Gefahrenlagen? Crisis Prevention
Reuter, C., Ludwig, T., Kaufhold, M. A., & Spielhofer, T. (2018b). Studie: Wie sehen Mitarbeiter von Feuerwehr und THW den Einsatz sozialer Medien in Gefahrenlagen? Crisis Prevention – Fachmagazin Für Innere Sicherheit, Bevölkerungsschutz Und Katastrophenhilfe, vol. 1, pp. 64–66.
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Emergency services׳ attitudes towards social media: A quantitative and qualitative survey across Europe
Reuter, C., Ludwig, T., Kaufhold, M. A., & Spielhofer, T. (2016). Emergency services׳ attitudes towards social media: A quantitative and qualitative survey across Europe. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 95, 96-111.
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Can an egalitarian reform in the parental leave system reduce the motherhood labor penalty? Some evidence from Spain
Fernández-Cornejo, J.A., Del-Pozo, E., Escot, L., & Castellanos-Serrano, C. (2018) Can an egalitarian reform in the parental leave system reduce the motherhood labor penalty? Some evidence from Spain. Revista Española de Sociología RES 27 doi:10.22325/fes/res.2018.3.
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Changing the story: management panaceas as narrative interventions
Whittle, Susan Rosina (2015) 'Changing the story: management panaceas as narrative interventions', in Anders Ortenblad (ed.) Handbook of Research on Management Ideas and Panaceas, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK; Chapter 10, 173-189.
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Evaluation of public policies: marital property regimes and parental leave systems. Effects on welfare regime from the gender perspective.
Castellanos Serrano, C. (2016) Evaluation of public policies: marital property regimes and parental leave systems. Effects on welfare regime from the gender perspective, Complutense University of Madrid (PhD Thesis) .
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Cloud Cuckoo Land: evidence from a study of student drop-out
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Findings: Personal Relationships and Poverty - An Evidence and Policy Review
Castellanos, C., Corlyon, J., Grieve, M., Stock, L., (2014). 'Findings: Personal Relationships and Poverty - An Evidence and Policy Review', in Joseph Rowntree Foundation Reducing Poverty in the UK: a collection of evidence reviews, pp. 126-129
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Do Fathers Who Took Childbirth Leave Become More Involved in Their Children’s Care?
Fernández-Cornejo, J.A., Escot, L.,Del-Pozo, E. & Castellanos-Serrano, C. (2016) 'Do Fathers Who Took Childbirth Leave Become More Involved in Their Children’s Care? The case of Spain'. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, XLVII(2), pp. 169-191.
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Representation, Place, and Equivalent Realities: an Exploration of Relational Perspectives on Representation and Meaning
Izod, Karen (2016). 'Representation, Place, and Equivalent Realities: an Exploration of Relational Perspectives on Representation and Meaning', Organisational and Social Dynamics, Volume 16, Number 1, May 2016, pp. 110-128(19). Karnac Books.
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Understanding and working with the psychodynamics of practitioner-patient relationships in the manual therapies
Sher, D. & Sher, M. (2015). 'Understanding and working with the psychodynamics of practitioner-patient relationships in the manual therapies'. Journal of Bodywork & Movement Therapies. Vol. 20, pp. 1-7.
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The Experiences of Co-Directorship in Group Relations Conferences
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Developing a Group Relations Institution in Lithuania
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The Oedipus Complex, Creativity and the Legacies of Group Relations
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Self-Assessing of the Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Intelligence in Schools
Carneiro, R., Child, C., Cullen, C., Dagienė, V., & Juškevičienė, A. (2015). 'Self-Assessing of the Emotional Intelligence and Organizational Intelligence in Schools'. Informatics in Education. 14, 2: 199-217.
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What Role, if any, Can Education Systems Play in Fostering Social Transformation for Social Justice? Prospects, Challenges and Limitations
King, S. & Sher, M. (2015). 'What Role, if any, Can Education Systems Play in Fostering Social Transformation for Social Justice? Prospects, Challenges and Limitations' European Journal of Education, 50: 250–253.
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Practice: Social Work in Action
Elizabeth Harlow & Karen Izod (2015) 'Special Issue - The Supervision of Social Work Practice'
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Evaluation of Child Poverty Pilots: Delivering Improved Services for Separating Parents.
Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, BPSR and TNS-BMRB (2011) Evaluation of Child Poverty Pilots: Delivering Improved Services for Separating Parents. DfE.
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Relationship Support Interventions Evaluation
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Personal Relationships and Poverty: An Evidence and Policy Review
Stock, L, Corlyon, J, Castellanos Serrano, C, and Gieve, M. (2014). Personal Relationships and Poverty: An Evidence and Policy Review. JRF.
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Address to the Finnish Organizational Development Society on their 25th Anniversary
A paper by TIHR Principal Researcher / Consultant Fiddy Abraham, presented at the Finnish Organizational Development Society on their 25th Anniversary in February 2015.
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A Partnership of Policing and Health Systems: containing the dynamics of sexual violence
Sher, M. (2015). 'A Partnership of Policing and Health Systems: containing the dynamics of sexual violence'. In: D. Armstrong and M. Rustin (Eds.), Social Defences Against Anxiety: explorations in a paradigm. Tavistock Clinic series. London: Karnac Books.
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Resource-ful Consulting: Working with your Presence and Identity in Consulting to Change
Izod, Karen & Whittle, Susan Rosina (2014). Resource-ful Consulting: Working with your Presence and Identity in Consulting to Change, London: Karnac Books.
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Barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream services: evidence and research
Corlyon, J. and La Placaa, V. (2014). 'Barriers to inclusion and successful engagement of parents in mainstream services: evidence and research', Journal of Children’s Services Vol 9, 3, pp. 220-234.
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Innovation or Stagnation – Social Work Organisations as Models of Behaviour for Clients
Sher, M. (2014). 'Innovation or Stagnation – Social Work Organisations as Models of Behaviour for Clients', Social Theory, Empirics, Policy and Practice. Vol. 9.
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Group Relations Work in China – Challenges, Risks & Impact for Organisational Development
Özdemir, H. & Sher, M. (2014). 'Group Relations Work in China – Challenges, Risks & Impact for Organisational Development', Challenging Organisations & Society. Vol. 3. No. 1. pp. 5012-517.
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Capacity Building: What the literature tells us
Whittle S., Colgan A. and Rafferty M. (2012). Capacity Building: What the literature tells us. Dublin: The Centre for Effective Services.
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Evaluating politically sensitive programmes: the case of Preventing Violent Extremism (Prevent)
G. Iacopini and L. Stock. (2013) Evaluating Politically Sensitive Programmes: The Case of Preventing Violent Extremism (Prevent), British Library MBS Portal, 2013.
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Challenges Recruiting Families with Children at Risk of Anti-Social Behaviour into Intervention Trials
Stateva, M., Minton, J., Beckett, C., Doolan, M., Ford, T., Kallitsoglou, A. and Scott, S. (2012). 'Challenges Recruiting Families with Children at Risk of Anti-Social Behaviour into Intervention Trials', Journal of Children’s Services, Vol. 7 (4) pp. 285 – 302.
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Social tourism and organised capitalism: research, policy and practice
Corlyon, J. and La Placaa, V. (2013). ‘Social tourism and organised capitalism: research, policy and practice’, Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, published online: 09 Sep 2013.
Book cover for Changing Organizations from Within: Roles, Risks and Consultancy Relationships featuring a nautilus shell design and the names of editors Susan Rosina Whittle and Robin C. Stevens.
Changing Organizations from Within: Roles, Risks and Consultancy Relationships
Whittle, S. R. & Stevens, R. C. (eds.) (2013). Changing Organizations from Within: Roles, Risks and Consultancy Relationships. London: Gower.
Cover of "The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists," edited by Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner. It features a close-up of a ripple effect in water, symbolizing influence and spreading ideas.
The Tavistock Group
Abraham, F. (2013). 'The Tavistock Group'. In The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists, eds. Morgen Witzel and Malcolm Warner, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Hidden Complexity
Brissett, L. & Sher, M. (2013). ‘Hidden Complexity’, International Corporate Governance Year Book 2013, International Corporate Governance Network. pp. 70-71.
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The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology. Volume 1: The Socio-Psychological Perspective
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Towards Equality in Health: Equal Shares in Caring
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The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology. Volume 2: The Socio-Technical Perspective
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Change Everything at Once! The Tavistock Institute's Guide to Developing Teamwork in Manufacturing
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Evaluation for Economic Development: Current Demands, Responses and Trends
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Empowerment in Perspective
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A Psycho-Social Exploration of the Jewish Community's Sensitivity to Criticism
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Inauthentic Innovation: Word Engineering
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The Social Engagement of Social Science: A Tavistock Anthology, Volume 3: The Socio-Ecological Perspective
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Redundancy: What it Does to People
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Hopes, Fears and Reality in a Merger of Two Charities
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Developing Organisational Consultancy
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Negotiating Entry and Contracting
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Editorial: On Reaching the Age of Fifty
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Effecting Organisational Change in Large Complex Systems: A Collaborative Consultancy Approach
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Consulting to Organisational Implications of Technical Change
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Sociotechnology and the Environment: The Tavistocks Contribution to Job and Organisational Design
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The Thematic Evaluation of the Partnership Principle in European Structural Fund Programmes 1994-1999.
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Eavesdropping on Debates in Language Education and Learning in Managing Evaluation and Innovation
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Counselling and Psychotherapy in Primary Health Care: A Psychodynamic Approach
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A Psychoanalytic Perspective of Leadership and Followership in Jewish Institutional Life
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What do You Mean by Safety? Conflicting Perspectives on Accident Causation and Safety Management Inside a Construction Firm
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How People Learn in Organisations
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Distributed Learning Networks for Trainers: A Prototypical Experience within a Trade Union Environment
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Are Basic Assumptions Instinctive?
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A Note on the Proto-Mental System and Groupishness’: Bion's Basic Assumptions Revisited
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Complementary Therapy in General Practice: An Evaluation of the Glastonbury Health Centre Complementary Medicine Service
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Engaging New Social Movements
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Organisational Participation: Myth and Reality
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Privatisation and Transformation in Central Europe: Lessons from Six Cases in Hungary
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The Levers of Organisational Change: Facilitators and Inhibitors
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The Needle and the Damage Done: Research, Action Research, and the Organisational and Social Construction of Health in the Information Society
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Working with Small Business Managers in Conditions of Ambiguity and Uncertainty
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Workplace Learning, Culture and Performance
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Organisational Analysis as Deconstructive Practice
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Comparing Methods for Mapping Organisational Cognition
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Three Contemporary Challenges for OD Practitioners
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Personality and Work Performance: Some Evidence from Small and Medium-Sized Firms
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Dependency, Alienation or Partnership? The Changing Relationship of the Individual to the Enterprise
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The Tavistock Institute Contribution to Job and Organisational Design (Volumes 1 & 2)
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Models of Organisation: An Introduction for Social Care Professionals
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When Technological Innovation is Not Enough. Understanding the take up of Energy Technology
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Organisationsentwicklung: Stand der entwicklung und perspektiven
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Leadership in Residential Child Care: Evaluating Qualification Training
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Evaluation of the New Deal for Disabled People: Innovative Schemes Pilot
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Educating Prospective Managers in the Complexity of Organisational Life: Teaching and Learning from a Complexity Perspective
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Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organisation and Change
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Cognitivism in Organisation Studies
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To Transfer is to Transform - The Circulation of Safety Knowledge
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The Organisational Learning of Safety in Community of Practices
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The Handbook of Supply Chain Management
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Decision Making and Human Factors in the Context of Privatisation and Transformation
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Managing Democratic Organisations (Volumes 1 & 2)
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She Got Involved in Prostitution to Pay for her Drug Habit
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Clusters and Co-Laboratories - The Myth and Reality of Institutional Learning
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The Parenting State
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Virtual Dynamics and Socio-Technical Systems
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Towards a Socio-Oecotechnology
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Improving Children's Health (2): An Analysis of Health Improvement Programmes 2000-2003
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User Perspectives
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Field Studies and Case Studies
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POLE: Observing European Policy and Practice in Lifelong Learning
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The Use of Cases Studies in the Development and Delivery of Evidence-Based Policy
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Leadership
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The Role of Social Science in the Study of Economic and Cultural Transformation
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Health and Educational Support for the Rehabilitation of Offenders
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Looking After Children in China
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In Search of the ‘Structure that Reflects’: Promoting Organisational Reflection Practices in a UK Health Authority
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Can Organisations Learn From Experience? Intervening to Improve Cross-boundary Management in Health and Social Care
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Ethical Issues for Psychotherapists Working in Organisations
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From Groups to Group Relations: Bion's Contribution to the Tavistock - 'Leicester' Conference
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Book Review: ‘Enactment, Toward a New Approach to the Therapeutic Relationship
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Participation and Power - A Critical Assessment
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Knowledge Regions as Complex Organisational Systems
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Research Action as a Bridge to Macro Changes
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Health, Collaborative Learning and the Collapse of Professionalism: The Information Brothel
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Leadership
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Evaluating Partnerships
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Philosophies and Types of Evaluation Research
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Group Feedback Analysis as a Bridging Methodology
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Research Action as a Multi Method
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Research Action as a Consultancy Method
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A Systems Approach to Under-Utilisation of Human Skills in Organisations
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In Search of the ‘Structure that Reflects’
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The Evaluation of the Work-life Balance Challenge Fund
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Evaluation of an Executive Coaching Service to Stimulate Learning Amongst Chief Executives and Executive Directors in NHS Wales
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Report: Evaluation strategies for community-level health projects: a review of best practice
This report provides an overview of the best evaluation strategies for community-level health interventions. It was the key output from a review commissioned by the Health Development Agency (HDA) which sought to..
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Action Research and Research Action: A Family of Methods
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Modernism and Postmodernism in Group Relations Theory and Practice: a Confusion of Tongues
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Planning Under Pressure: The Strategic Choice Approach
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A History of Group Study and Psychodynamic Organisations
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Flying the Friendly Skies: Why US Commercial Airline Pilots want to Carry Guns
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The Dangers of Resource Myopia in World and Organisational Psychology: A Plea for Broadening and Integration
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Sex, Pregnancy and Parenthood for Young People who are Looked After
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Kurt Lewin at the Tavistock Institute
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Fit for Change
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Evaluating Practice in Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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Towards a Future Integrated Social Science
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Collaborative Knowledge Systems - Supporting Health for All?
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Is there any Future for Local Government?
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Belgirate I: Group Relations Conferences: Reviewing and Exploring Theory, Design, Role-Taking and Application
Belgirate I: Group Relations Conferences: Reviewing and Exploring Theory, Design, Role-Taking and Application, Volume I
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Have you Heard? BHF Progress Record for Cardiac Patients
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Evaluation of Post-MI Patient Diaries Show Concerns
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Mutuality and Interdependence: An Application to Issues of Career Ownership and Development
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Book Review: ‘Taking Positions in the Organisation
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Healthy Living Centres
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Epistemology and Validity of Action Research European Group for Organisational Studies
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What is the Scope for Organisational Change in the Public Sector in Europe?
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Birth of an Institution: Early Correspondence Leading to the Establishment of OFEK and Tavistock Group Relations in Israel
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Becoming Better Consultants Through Varieties of Experiential Learning
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Current Research and Consultancy Methods in the UK
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The Relational Turn, Implications for Organisations and Groups
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Moving Psychotherapy into Community Settings: Alexis Brook's Life's Work
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Splits, Extrusion and Integration: The Impact of ‘Potential Space’ for Group Relations and Sponsoring Institutions
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Mind-ful Consulting
Whittle, S. & Izod, K., (eds.) (2009). Mind-ful Consulting, London: Karnac Books.
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Belgirate II: Adaptation and Innovation Theory, Design and Role-Taking in Group Relations Conferences and their Applications
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Corruption: Aberration or an Inevitable Part of the Human Condition?
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Developing Leadership in a Social Care Enterprise: Managing Organisational and Individual Boundaries and Anxiety: An Action Learning Approach to Leadership Development
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Isabel Menzies Lyth: Traditions and Innovations
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Learning to Host a Social Dreaming Matrix
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Managing Vulnerability: The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care
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Light In My Life
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New Inter-Organisational Forms for UK Partnership Delivery’
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Light In My Life
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Violence in the Emergency Department
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Belgirate III: Tradition, Creativity and Succession in the Global Group Relations Network
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The Leicester Conference Experience
Archer, C. & Sher, M. (2012). 'The Leicester Conference Experience', Therapy Today.
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Reducing Violence and Aggression in A+E through a Better Experience
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Guide to Teenage Parents
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The Dynamics of Change: Tavistock Approaches to Improving Social Systems
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Earning Not Learning? An Assessment of Young People in the Jobs Without Training (JWT) Group
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Inside the Minds of the Money Minders: Deciphering Reflections on Money, Behaviour and Leadership in the Financial Crisis of 2008
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