The various 'streams' of activity that have contributed to the current shape and trajectory of Telic Systems Research have been running for a very long time .. but for a recent history of salient events, encounters and attainments, please read on!
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2002 |
May |
Richard Williams founded Goal Management Systems Ltd, a Research Company designed to hold, protect and licence the IPR assets created in the course of his research. |
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2003 |
October |
Looking around for fellow researchers who might be interested in participating in his projects, Richard made contact with Dr Alan Rayner's ‘Inclusional Round Table' discussion group at the University of Bath. Karen Tesson, as one of Alan's PhD students, had been an active member of the ‘Round Table' for some time. Lorraine Whitmarsh had made contact with Alan and his associates while studying for her PhD at the University's Science Studies Centre, and had conducted a Study of attitude changes experienced by students attending Alan's ‘Life, Environment and People' (LEP) course. |
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2004 |
August |
Richard was introduced to Lorraine, and the two of them started to work on a new investigation into the changing aspirations, attainments, problems and threats experienced by graduates who had attended Alan's LEP course (the LEP Study). |
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2005 |
July |
Lorraine successfully completed her PhD (on Perceptions of and Behavioural Responses to Climate Change). |
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2005 |
December |
Richard and Lorraine started work on an investigation of interpersonal conflict and co-operation in Higher Education (the CCHE Study). |
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2006 |
July |
Karen successfully completed her PhD (on Social Networks in Organisations). |
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2006 |
September |
Lorraine presented a paper on the LEP Study to the Annual Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society in Birmingham. |
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2006 |
October |
Richard invited Lorraine and Karen to become shareholders in his Research Company, GMS Ltd. Shares in the Company (and, therefore, ownership of its IPR assets) have, since that time, been distributed in proportion to the shareholders' respective contributions to the Company's research projects. |
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2007 |
September |
Lorraine presented a paper on the preliminary findings of the first CCHE Study to the Annual Conference of the Social Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society in Canterbury. |
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2008 |
April |
We launched the Telic Systems Research (TSR) web site, as a new vehicle for the promotion of our research. |
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2008 |
April |
Lorraine presented a paper on further findings of the first CCHE Study to the Annual Conference of the British Psychological Society (in association with the Psychological Society of Ireland) in Dublin. |
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2009 |
January |
We launched a redesigned and enhanced version of the Telic Systems Research (TSR) web site. |
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2009 |
January |
Lorraine launched our Online Survey on Co-operation and Conflict in Higher Education - the latest stage of the CCHE Studies. |
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2009 |
April |
Lorraine completed the data collection for our Online Survey on Co-operation and Conflict in Higher Education. |
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2009 |
April |
Lorraine, with assistance from Louise and subsequently Annie, commenced statistical analysis of the data collected by the Online Survey on Co-operation and Conflict in Higher Education. |
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2010 |
January |
Emma, with assistance from Annie, started to prepare the dataset collected by the CCHE Online Survey for submission to the UK Data Archive. |
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2010 |
July |
Richard started to design and build an online software application which offers a rich and interactive graphical representation of the model of workplace relationships that TSR has developed for the CCHE Studies. The graphics will be used to illustrate data that has already been collected, and the online program will be deployed as a convenient and efficient data collection device for future studies. |
See the Events section for the most recent and forthcoming events ..
