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Podcast from Dr David Shaw lunchtime talk.

“not quite what I had anticipated….”

Celebrating 70 years of becoming more humane

This talk explores the proposition that an ‘anthropological thread’ runs through the history of our work as an organisation.

It’s nearly six months since Friday 24th June when we kicked off the first series of Social Dreaming matrices in the Wellcome Library Reading Room. Brexit was unfolding, dreams were colourful and colourless, uncertainty prevailed. The questions we took in to these were on dreams and archival practice, on what happens in the recovery and relocation of an organisation’s archive and the relationship of this material to the world we live in now ...

Join us in January to dream the New Year in the Wellcome Library Reading Room...

Dr David Lawlor & Dr Mannie Sher. Paper published in Socioanalysis: Special Issue - Seeking Asylum 18: 2016 (40 - 52)

Distraction surrounds us every day in work: from the ambient clatter and noise of the open plan office, to the ringing and beeping of phones, the flurry of emails, and chatter of colleagues. Today I’ve been thinking today about the nature of distraction at work, but particularly in archival work. Cataloguing requires focus and attention, the careful sifting through of streams of data to try and make order out of chaos. I sit at my desk, my trolley of boxes beside me making a wall, a little archive cave of brown cardboard ...

We look forward to seeing you next year!

The Global Leadership Intensive

In this lunchtime talk, David Armstrong leads a conversational session based upon his recent paper 'Psychoanalytic Study and the Ethical Imagination'.

Dione Hills reports back on some of the latest news from the Centre for Complexity in Evaluation Across the Nexus (CECAN).

Only after I committed to writing the chapter did I remember that TIHR’s archives would be unavailable to me. I had been invited to contribute to a book about people the editors considered “great change thinkers”. I noted that Kurt Lewin, Eric Trist and Fred Emery were claimed already on an initial list of possibilities. I proposed successfully to lead on a chapter about Eric Miller, with colleague, Antonio Sama, leading on one about A. K. Rice ...

Seminar: Serious Gaming’ as a Pedagogical Approach to Developing Collective Social Enterprise and Employability Skills, 8th Dec.

Presented at UCL Research Seminar ‘Anthropology in the Professional World’, 30 November.

It has been virtually impossible over the past month to escape the fiercely contested American presidential campaigns. Newspapers, social media, and television have all been caught up in debating what makes a good leader. Donald Trump was chosen by the people – was he the right choice? ...

Lunchtime Talk: Heather Stradling 30th November

Staff of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations are in deep shock and mourning over the untimely and sudden death of our beloved Head of Finance, John Mulryan.