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A person in a black shirt engages with an art installation featuring ropes or wires in a modern gallery space. There's a blurred view of a TV screen and abstract shapes in the background.

Sidestepping

Searching for embodied experiences of work and labour in the Institute’s archive

A blurred image of a whiteboard filled with colorful drawings, text, and sketches. Red, blue, and black markers are used to create abstract shapes and handwritten notes.

What is our approach to evaluation?

Towards a service with a moral function

A person holds up hands with fingers covered in black ink or paint, creating a triangular space between the thumbs and fingers. The background is softly blurred, focusing attention on the hands.

A Tavistock Kiss

A tender touch

A woman with long dark hair sits on a grey chair, wearing a black sweater. She is smiling slightly, with a neutral-colored wall in the background.

What’s love got to do with it?

Considering the relationship between love and work

People are gathered in an art studio, some seated, some standing, working on large drawings spread across the floor. The room is bright, with bookshelves and plants in the background. One person wearing a cap is moving across the space.

Love at Work

The work of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations is based on a certain kind of love.

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Group Relations: a thought piece

By Group Relations Director (to 2023) Dr Leslie B. Brissett

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Early morning thoughts about Brin (=/ brexit)

A man with short hair and glasses sits on a chair, wearing a blue patterned shirt. He is positioned in a softly lit room, facing the camera with a neutral expression. The background is a plain, light-colored wall.

Consultants: are our ethics for real or just skin deep?...

Being a consultant means helping the client. How open are we to when we are not?

Lunchtime Talks

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Reflections on London

Our visiting Artist in Residence arrives

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Corona-Time Notes: The Virus of Horror

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Learning from Veterans

Reflecting on a recent feasibility study for the Forces in Mind Trust. Sometimes you learn more from facing challenges than from success. In our latest research report, this was definitely the case....

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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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The Client speaks...

This article on executive coaching is part of a series of thought-pieces developed by Dr Mannie Sher. In this article, space is given over to the client who speaks about the value of executive coaching.

Managing Large-Scale Global Organisational Transformation: the role of culture & diversity

A summary of a 2-year assignment to effect leadership and organisational change in a multi-national player. The client is a global pharmaceutical manufacturing…

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Redundancy Kills!

What purpose does work serve for individuals and society? Work gives people a secure place in the community. It also allows them to displace narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic drives onto work...

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“It cannot be us; it must be them”

Understanding and working with projective dynamics in the value chain helps to reduce blame, time, waste (inventory) and cost. The second article of the series: “All research is consultancy; all consultancy is research”...

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“Tavistock, we have a problem…..!”

(with apologies to the crew of the Apollo 13 moon flight...)

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Testing times: What did it take to be a War Officer in WWII?

Using materials uncovered in the Tavistock archive, join us for a series of events to recreate war period psychology recruitment methods. Test your mettle through a combination of individual and group tests, including word association, thematic apperception, and some moustaches that Henry Wellcome himself would have been jealous of.

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Preservation and mutability: salt and the archive – two dynamic systems

I have been thinking about salt a lot recently. Maybe a strange way to start a blog for the TIHR Archive Project but actually there are many connections between the qualities of salt and the archive.

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The artistry of the archive

Launching our new blog to document the emergent TIHR archive.

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