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Festschrift for Mike Jackson (2024)
Journal Article
Dwivedi, A., & Midgley, G. (2025). Festschrift for Mike Jackson. Systems research and behavioral science, 42(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3127

This is the editorial for a festschrift for Mike Jackson. We begin by outlining six phases of Jackson's research, from 1982 to the present day: an initial critique of soft systems thinking and soft operational research (OR); a proposal for methodolog... Read More about Festschrift for Mike Jackson.

Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, A., & Midgley, G. (online). Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension. Systems research and behavioral science, 42(1), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3096

A dilemma in critical systems thinking is how to balance a desire for critique to inspire far-reaching transformations in society with the requirement for people to reach accommodations to enable on-the-ground change. Both critique and accommodation... Read More about Accommodation and critique: A necessary tension.

Gregory Bateson, Fourfold Vision and the Myth of Power: A Double Bind that Encourages Creativity and Wisdom (2024)
Thesis
Palmer, H. (2024). Gregory Bateson, Fourfold Vision and the Myth of Power: A Double Bind that Encourages Creativity and Wisdom. (Thesis by Publication). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4910141

This thesis discusses my writings on power in the professional fields of systemic family therapy, supervision and training and how they together make a substantive and original contribution to the field of systemic therapy. The writing emerges out of... Read More about Gregory Bateson, Fourfold Vision and the Myth of Power: A Double Bind that Encourages Creativity and Wisdom.