Tavistock Institute for Human Behavior
BACKGROUND
Tavistock describes itself as "a registered charity and a not-for-profit organisation" whose income "comes from research grants and contracts for research projects, consultancy, training and publishing;" plus its "own resources."
Phil Swann The Tavistock Institute 30 Tabernacle Street London EC2A 4UE Email: central.admin@tavinstitute.org Tel: +44(0)20 7417 0407 Fax: +44(0)20 7417 0566 URL: [2]
"Tavistock Institute is headquartered in London. Its prophet, Sigmond Freud, settled in Maresfield Gardens when he moved to England. He was given a mansion by Princess Bonaparte. Tavistock's pioneer work in behavioral science along Freudian lines of "controlling" humans established it as the world center of foundation ideology. Its network now extends from the University of Sussex to the U.S. through the Stanford Research Institute, Esalen, MIT, >Hudson Institute, <http://watch.pair.com/heritage.htmlHeritage Foundation Tavistock Institute developed the mass brain-washing techniques which were first used experimentally on American prisoners of war in Korea. Its experiments in crowd control methods have been widely used on the American public, a surreptitious but nevertheless outrageous assault on human freedom by modifying individual behavior through topical psychology. A German refugee, Kurt Lewin, became director of Tavistock in 1932. He came to the U.S. in 1933 as a "refugee", the first of many infiltrators, and set up the Harvard Psychology Clinic, which originated the propaganda campaign to turn the American public against Germany and involve us in World War II". [3]
AREAS OF WORK
work in this theme includes:
Formative evaluation of the Higher Education Archives Hub 2002 which focused on the design, content and usability of an online tool that helps staff and students find and use archive and manuscript holdings.
Evaluation of the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Evaluation of the Moving Here website for National Archives, which looks at the usability and usefulness of a site documenting over 200 years of migration to England.
TRENDS Training educators through networks and distributed systems which developed electronic learning systems to train teachers across Europe.
Summative evaluation of the Higher Education Archives Hub 2003 which examined the cost-effectiveness and usefulness of the Archives Hub, building on the earlier evaluation above.
Evaluation of the People's Network and ICT training for public library staff
BENVIC which developed benchmarking and competence mapping systems for European virtual universities.
HERO Health and educational support for the rehabilitation of offenders
Needs analysis of the Further Education sector
RECKS The role and effectiveness of collaborative knowledge systems in health promotion and health support
Evaluation of a virtual commissioning approach to commissioning health research and development in the NHS
MELIC Multimedia health information for citizens funded by the European Commission's TEN-TELECOM programme.
SEAHORSE Support, empowerment and awareness for HIV/AIDS which developed and tested an online health support service for people living with HIV/AIDS and their carers.
Thematic network on socio-economic evaluation of public research and technology development policies
