Staff at The Bayswater Institute

At a time when industry became interested in making use of the social sciences, she became Social Sciences Adviser to Esso Petroleum Company Ltd. She held this post from 1965-1970, carrying out and commissioning activities from a wide range of disciplines.

From 1971-1989 she was a senior social scientist in the Tavistock Institute. During this time she wrote a book about the Esso experience; reported on New Forms of Work Organisation in Europe to the German Government’s Commission for Economic and Social Change; consulted for seven years to the German Government's Programme to Humanise Life at Work; consulted for eight years to one of the four clearing banks; contributed to the design of two new manufacturing plants from the point of view of job design; did research (with Ken Eason) to collect other experiences of making use of the social sciences; and began to work with Harold Bridger on his Working Conference model of group relations training.

When Lisl Klein founded the Bayswater Institute in 1990, Harold Bridger gave this model to the Institute to run. She was Director of the Institute until 2002.

Books:

• Multiproducts Ltd. A case study in the social effects of rationalised production. HMSO 1964.
• New forms of work organisation. Cambridge University Press, 1976.
• A social scientist in industry. London: Gower Press 1976.
• Putting social science to work; the ground between theory and use explored through case studies in organisations (with Ken Eason). Cambridge University Press, 1991.
• Working with organisations; papers to celebrate the 80th Birthday of Harold Bridger (editor and paper titled: Inside and outside; a struggle for integration) London, Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, 1989.
• Working across the gap: The practice of social science in organizations. London, Karnac Publications, 2005.
• The Meaning of work: Papers on work organisation and the design of jobs. (In press)

Whilst working on his PhD. Simon began work with Professor Trevor Wood-Harper on developing a rapid and participatory version of the 'Multiview' Methodology. This resulted in four separate books being published. His work with Trevor was based at UEA, where he worked in his old Department as an international consultant and subsequently lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate students on information systems issues. His work took him to many parts of the world and this in turn contributed to the later developments of Multiview. He still teaches his adapted approach at UEA on a two week short course:
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/dev/odg/prodev/MIS

It was during his time at the OU that Simon began work with the French organisation: Blue Plan http://www.planbleu.org/planBleu/historiqueUk.html . In collaboration, initially with Dr. Stephen Morse of the University of Reading and with Blue Plan, Simon co-developed the Imagine Methodology; a participative method to assist communities of various kinds to consider their sustainability. In developing this methodology Simon worked around the Mediterranean on a variety of coastal area management projects.

In 2007 Simon joined the Bayswater Institute and has been developing his research and consultancy in two key areas:

• In continuing the development of the Imagine approach in the Mediterranean and, now also in the UK under the auspices of the Academy for Sustainable Communities
  http://www.ascskills.org.uk/pages/home
• with the development of a programme for establishing and enhancing Reflective Practice in organisations of all kinds. 

Recent Publications

Books

• Bell, S. and Coudert E. 2005 A Practioner’s Guide to “IMAGINE”: the Systemic and Prospective Sustainability Analysis - Guide d’Utilisation pour « IMAGINE » : l’Analyse de Durabilité Systémique et Prospective. BluePlan for the Mediterranean, Paper No. 3. Sophia Anitpolis, 51 pages. France. ISBN 2-912081-15-7. Available to download
• Bell, S. and Wood-Harper, A. T. 2003. How to Set Up Information Systems: a non-specialists guide to the Multiview approach, Earthscan, 213 pages, London. ISBN 1-85383-958-2. More details at Earthscan ¦ James & James
• Bell, S. and Morse S. 2003. Measuring Sustainability: Learning by Doing, Earthscan, 189 pages, London. ISBN 1-85383-843-8. More details at Earthscan ¦ James & James
• Bell, S. and Morse, S. 1999. Sustainability Indicators: Measuring the Immeasurable. Earthscan, 175 pages, London. ISBN 1-85383-498-x. New edition 2000. New, revised edition for 2007. More details at Earthscan ¦ James & James

Recent Papers

• Bell, S. and Morse, S. 2007. Problem structuring methods: theorizing the benefits of deconstructing sustainable development projects. Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 576-587.
• Bell, S. and Morse, S. 2007. Story telling in sustainable development projects. Sustainable Development Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 97-100.
• Bell, S. and Wood-Harper. T. 2007. Applying the Multiview Analysis and Design Methodology in a Non Governmental Organisation in Bangladesh . Accepted for publication by the Journal of Global Information Technology Management 2007. Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 7 - 33 .
• Bell, S. and Christina, A. 2006. Applying Systemic Project Management Approaches for the UK National Health Service. Systemic Practice and Action Research. Vol 19, No. 1. pp. 27-44.

Consultants

The Bayswater Institute regularly works with the following senior consultants:

Ken Eason became Professor of Cognitive Ergonomics in 1989 and took on a variety of management roles: Head of the Department of Human Sciences from 1989-1992 and 1998-99 and Director of the HUSAT Research Institute from 1992-1996. He became the Director of the Bayswater Institute in 2002 when he retired from Loughborough University where he now has Emeritus Professor status.

Books and some recent publications

Significant institutions during this period were the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (where he did group relations training ) and the Scottish Institute of Human Relations where he trained in family therapy and psychoanalytical psychotherapy. It was here he first worked with Harold Bridger – in 1980 – on the staff of his double task based Working Conference. In the mid 90's he did training in action research in Scandinavia with Hans van Beinum, Claude Faucheux and Rene van der Vlist.

Between 1989 and 2001 he was - with others - responsible for the building up of the SIHR's Glasgow base of which he was the manager. During that time he continued to teach and run his clinical practice.

From 2001 until the present he has concentrated on his professional interests in therapy, organisational consultancy and training via the Bayswater Institute, his private practice and in other organisations. Derek Raffaelli works across a wide variety of settings, including industrial and commercial, health, governmental, church and voluntary sectors.

She came to England in May 1977 with her family and worked for several years in Adult Education before helping to set up the Training for Equality Unit at Kingsway College London. She worked with immigrants and refugees before training for four years as a psychodynamic counsellor at Birkbeck College, London. She started the Counselling for Refugees Certificate Course for the Psychology department there and became the Senior Tutor for the MSc in Psychodynamic Counselling.

She continued her training at the Tavistock Clinic, developing her interests in groups and social behaviour. She did a one year course in the psychology of groups there, a one-year placement in the Adolescent department, and was a member of the Consulting to Groups Workshop for 5 years. She did the foundation year at the Institute of Group Analysis 1992. She set up and directed Group Relations Conferences for her students at Birkbeck and trained in group relations with the Tavistock Institute. She was a Tavistock tutor on a one-year Consultancy training programme for Essex Social Services in 1999-2000.

She has continued to work in Group Relations for the Tavistock Clinic and works as a consultant for the Bayswater Working Conferences. In 1996 she completed a 2-year infant observation and trained for 5 years as a Jungian Analyst with the Society Analytical Psychologists, of which she is an active member.

Selected examples of her organisational and action research experience are as follows:

• Ford Foundation, 4 year programme in South Africa exploring gender issues in organisations, 1990 – 94
• Notts. Probation service, 4 year anti-racist programme, 1994-98
• South African Broadcasting Corp.,Management Training Programmes, 1997
• Metropolitan Police Research Programme 1998-99
• British Council, 1 year programme, Exploring Diversity Issues, 1999
• Women’s Therapy Centre, 2 year consultation 2000-01
• Retained Organs Commission Consultancy 2002
• Care UK 1999- 2005

Ongoing clients include

Essex County Council.
The London Borough of Walthamstow
Southend Borough Council
St Ann’s Hospital
INQUEST

Miranda is currently Course Organising Tutor for the Certificate in Counselling for Refugees at the Tavistock Clinic. She has a private Analytic practice and works part time for the Bayswater Institute.