In his obituary of Paul Spencer, Richard Waller talks of Paul’s nine years with the Tavistock Institute in the 1960s as a period in which he carried out “sociological research unrelated to his work in Kenya”.
I had the opportunity to work closely with Paul during four of those years – on an interdisciplinary Nuffield Foundation project that was intended to shed light on, and if possible suggest changes to, the processes of policymaking in city government.
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