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This group comprises three LSE Institute of
Social Psychology academic staff members (Martin Bauer, Lucia
Garcia, Patrick Humphreys) and their PhD students working in
related fields (Alexandra Steinberg, Viviane Goldenberg, Andrea
Kreideweiss, Russell Richards, Thorsten Roser, Jackie Shaw, Marc
Vinson and Pal-Rune Voss), senior research fellows Carol Lorac
and Eve Mitleton Kelly; visiting fellows Fred Adam, Garrick Jones
and Stamatis Skoutas; postdoctoral fellow Hannele Huhtala; research
officers Melissa Nolas, Vicky Katsioloudes, Gonzalo Olmos and
Slavica Slavic.
The group includes the London Multimedia Lab for Audiovisual Composition
and Communication , directed by Carol Lorac and Patrick Humphreys, (www.londonmultimedia.org)
the Organisational Knowledge Network, coordinated by Lucia Garcia and
the Complexity Group, directed by Eve Mitleton Kelly. The organization
research group also works together with with the Ludic
Group in researching and developing flexible learning environments,
theatres for learning and group decision and communication support.
The Organisational Research Group of the Institute
of Social Psychology was established in 1984, specialising in the
domain areas of decision making and decision analysis, organisational
analysis, modelling and design, management and project management, and
eliciting user requirements, designing, developing and evaluating software
to support practice within each of these domains of human action. This
research has since been applied, generalised and set in context in many
project on organisational transformation and sector and community development.
Members of the group have supervised many postgraduate
students undertaking doctoral research in these areas, for whom it
organizes a fortnightly seminar. The researchers who currently comprise
the Organizational Research Group were brought together through joint
work undertaken by the group on many national and international research
projects, located in the UK, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Peru, Chile,
Spain, Greece, Brazil, Hungary and other countries. Postdoctoral
researchers and doctoral candidates join the group on a project-by-project
basis.
In October 2002 the Complexity
Group, previously located in the Department of Information
Systems, joined the Organisational research group (its project activities
and grants were transferred to the Institute of Social Psychology). The
complexity group’s research whose research argues that complexity provides
an explanatory framework of how organisations behave, how individuals
and organisations interact, relate and evolve within a larger social
ecosystem and why interventions may have un-anticipated consequences.
The organisational research group also contributes to the research programme
of the London
Multimedia Lab for Audiovisual Composition and Communication.
The LML’s four research sectors are Education; Development and Health;
Community Enhancement; Innovation and Creativity in Organizations. Both
audiovisual and multimedia compositions are seen as universal modes of
communication available to everyone: Audiovisual composition, whatever
the form record, report, documentary, diary, drama, testimony, case
study - provides ways of explaining by enhancing telling with showing.
Through the interplay of different modes of composing (textual and audiovisual)
people become empowered. The intention of the international research
programme of the LML is to extend the power and application of audiovisual
composition and multimedia communication in areas where the applications
are immense.
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