Programme
Friday 10 May 2019
12 noon-13.15 Arrival, registration and lunch
13.15-14.15 Anna Guagnini (University of Bologna): Keynote Lecture: Exploring the diversified and evolving galaxy of the consulting profession in industry. Notes from existing maps and suggestions about navigation tools
14.15-15.45 Session 1
Anna Simmons (UCL): Samples, Societies and Status: Chemical Consultancy and the Career of Robert Warington
Peter Reed (Independent Researcher): George E Davis (1850-1907): Transition from Industrial Consultancy to Chemical Engineering
Robin Mackie and Gerrylynn Roberts (The Open University): The careers of chemical consultants in late nineteenth and twentieth century Britain
15.45-16.00 Tea
16.00-17.00 Session 2
Annette Lykkens (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim): The chemistry professor as consultant, 1910-1930
Jonathan Aylen (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research): Managing Knowledge in the 20th Century: the role of consultants and contractors in supporting technology intensive firms in steel and chemicals
17.00-17.30 Concluding remarks and discussion
Saturday 11 May 2019
9.30-10.00 Arrival, registration and coffee
10.00-11.30 Session 3
Richard Byrom (Independent Researcher): Apprentice Millwright to Consulting Civil Engineer: Sir William Fairbairn FRS
John Porter (Newcomen Society): Consultancy in the 19th century London Water Supply Industry
Stathis Arapostathis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): Electrifying Consultants: Roles and Identities in the British Electrical Industry, 1880-1930
11.30-13.00 Session 4
Kira Lussier (University of Toronto): Consulting Psychologists, Psychological Tests and Expertise in Human Resource Consulting Firms,
1960–1995
Elizabeth Cory-Pearce (UCL): Eric Miller and the application of an anthropological training to textiles industry consulting
Viviane Quirke (Oxford Brookes University): From tamoxifen to SERMS: Craig Jordan and Imperial Chemical Industries, 1960s-1990s
13.00-13.45 Lunch
13.45-15.15 Session 5
David Witt: Experiences of a consultant to the avionics industry, 1970-2000
Andrew Rabeneck (Independent Researcher): The Place of Construction Consultants within the Globalised Economy
Paul Bell (Consultant Jampel Davison & Bell): Changes in the Status and Role of Consulting Engineers since 1970
15.15-16.00 Concluding remarks and discussion
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30 Workshop ends