Recent projects have been in the four sections below. For further information and the availability of reports please contact the administrator, Chris Chism, at mail@bayswaterinst.org

Sustainable Development

As one of nine partners in the EU project POINT, the Institute has been examining the roles of sustainablity indicators as ways of translating scientific evidence into forms that can be used in policy making to promote sustainability (www.point-eufp7.info). The Institute's work is presented in two deliverables: number 9 in which Simon Bell and Steve Morse discuss the group dynamics methodology they used in the project and number 15 which provides an overall synthesis of the findings of the project.

The Health Service

• An examination of the progress and problems of using e-Health patient record sysstems in two local health communities to support the 'seamless care' of patients as they move between different health agencies. This project was funded  by the NIHR SDO programme and the Institute worked with colleagues in Staffordshire and Loughborough Universities.
• A study of the impact of the Electronic Patient Record for NHS hospitals. 
• An evaluation of an inter-professional mentoring scheme within an academic department of a medical school and local Primary Care Trusts.
• A study of the evaluation procedures used to assess the quality of medical student teaching in a major teaching hospital.
• An action research programme to support the review of the maintenance function in the Estates Department of a Hospital Trust.

• An evaluation of the use of a large-scale electronic bibliographic reference system in the UK Universitites as part of the development of integrated digital libraries.

• The human and organisational consequences of the use of information and communication technologies to support collaborative working in the construction industry.

• A study of the human and organisational consequences of the use of a prototype knowledge-based system in the construction industry.