Patrick Humphreys is Professor of Social Psychology and Director of
the Organizational Research Group at the London School of Economics and
Political Science. He directs the EU DG1 ALFA Network "CHICA"
(Community Health Information, Communication and Action), linking
research projects and training of researchers in Europe and Latin
America. He directs, for the British Council and the UK Department for
International Development, Regional Academic Partnerships on
Organizational Development with Novosibirsk State University and
Regional Development with Kaliningrad State University, Russia. He
recently directed the project SaRA (Salud reproductiva para Adolescentes)
in Peru for the UK Department for International Development and the EU
DGV funded project on evaluation of the World Health organizations
Healthy Cities project in Europe.
He was joint principal investigator on the ESRC project "Study of
Industrial Modes of Production of Television Drama". He has led the
LSE team on the ESPRIT projects FAOR (Functional Analysis of Office
Requirements) and PIMS (Project Integrated Management System) and was
principal investigator in project IGOFOR (Interactive Generative
Organisational Frame of Reference), funded by the British Research
Council.
From 1990-1996 he was the Managing Director for the EU TEMPUS project
BEAMS (Business Economics and Management Support). Over the past two
decades he has directed many projects on health networking
organisational decision support, group and individual decision making
with multiple objectives, on techniques for probability, risk and
utility assessment, on the interactive modelling of complex decision
problems, and on computer-based methods for eliciting and organising
expert assessment of human performance and reliability.
He is co-author of How voters decide (Academic Press, 1981; second
edition, Open University Press, 1984) and of Software Development
project management: process and support (Ellis Horwood/Simon and
Schuster, 1990). He is a co-editor of Decision Support in Organisational
Transformation, (Chapman and Hall, 1997), implementing Systems for
Supporting Management Decisions (Chapman and Hall, 1996) Effective
Decision Support (Technical Press, 1987), Analysing and aiding decision
processes (North Holland, 1983) and Exploring human decision making
(North Holland, 1980). He is also the author of more than 80 published
papers in the fields of networking for health , health care delivery,
organisational transformation and development, decision making and
decision support systems. |
