Stansfield, Robert Grubb (1915-1993)

Handwritten and typescript notes of lectures on psychological subjects given by C. A. Mace, J. Hadfield and May Smith during the time when Stansfield was a part-time research student at Birkbeck College, London, 1946-1948.

Also includes Stansfield's recommendations for the historical records of the Operational Research Society, 1980; letter addressed to Dr A. Lovie, BPS Hon. Archivist, 21 September 1980 accompanying the deposit of the material in the BPS archive and giving further information about the lectures and the Operational Research Society; and two obituaries of Stansfield taken from newspapers,1994.

Stansfield was educated at Clare College Cambridge and undertook particle physics research at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. During the war he became a Member of the Operational Research Section of Fighter Command. After the war he went to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) later moving to City University as Reader in Industrial Sociology. In addition to being a founder member of the Ergonomics Society he was actively involved with numerous societies concerned with anthropology, history of science, operational research, physics, psychology (BPS), sociology and the British Association.

Biographical details taken from Stansfield's obituary published in The Ergonomist February 1994 (Reg Sell).