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A Geological Survey in Transition by Peter Allen A geological survey in transition by Peter Allen A geological survey in transition Peter Allen British Geological Survey 2003 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG ຜ 0115-936 3241 Fax 0115-936 3488 The full range of Survey publications is e-mail: [email protected] available from the BGS Sales Desks at www.bgs.ac.uk Nottingham, Edinburgh and London; see Shop online at: www.geologyshop.com contact details below or shop online at www.geologyshop.com Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA The London Information Office also ຜ 0131-667 1000 Fax 0131-668 2683 maintains a reference collection of BGS e-mail: [email protected] publications including maps for consultation. The Survey publishes an annual catalogue London Information Office at the Natural of its maps and other publications; this History Museum (Earth Galleries), catalogue is available from any of the BGS Exhibition Road, South Kensington, Sales Desks. 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Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Copyright in materials derived from the Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8BB British Geological Survey’s work is owned ຜ 01491-838800 Fax 01491-692345 by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and/or the authority that Sophia House, 28 Cathedral Road commissioned the work. You may not copy Cardiff CF11 9LJ or adapt this publication without first ຜ 029 2066 0147 Fax 029 2066 0159 obtaining the NERC’s permission. Please contact the BGS Copyright Manager, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Parent Body Nottingham. You may quote extracts of a reasonable length without prior permission, Natural Environment Research Council, provided a full acknowledgement is given Polaris House, North Star Avenue, of the source of the extract. Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1EU ຜ 01793-411500 Fax 01793-411501 (Cover Photograph Jim Rayner; P520661.) www.nerc.ac.uk Bibliographic reference ALLEN, P M. 2003. A geological survey in transition. British Geological Survey Occasional Publication No. 1. ISBN 0 85272 426 8 © NERC 2003 iii Contents Preface v Foreword vii 1 The first hundred and fifty years 1 2 Visiting Groups 11 3 Strategic planning and the NERC Corporate Plan, 1985 22 4 Rothschild and the impact on the funding of the BGS 33 5 Butler 44 6 Post-Butler developments 53 7 The Joint BGS/Academic UK Geological Mapping Committee 63 8 Strategic planning, 1988 73 9 New Director, new structure: the first two matrices 78 10 Commercialising a geological survey 94 11 New beginnings 103 12 The Price Waterhouse report and its aftermath 116 13 The R&D Programme 137 14 Efficiency Scrutiny, Senior Management Review and Prior Options 140 15 Another reorganisation, 1996–97 155 16 Image 165 17 Belt tightening in the 1990s 170 18 IT into everything 176 19 Matrix — mark three 185 20 A geological survey in transition 195 References 206 Appendices 1 The British Geological Survey Programme Board, 1989–1997, and the BGS Board, 1998 onwards 208 2 The British Geological Survey Directorate, 1979–2000 210 3 Sources of information 213 Index 215 Figures 1 Income for the period 1987/88 to 1998/99 43 iv 2 The organisation of the Institute of Geological Sciences in September 1980 79 3 The organisation of the British Geological Survey as a matrix in April 1984 83 4 The first reshaping of the matrix, April 1985 89 5 The second reshaping of the matrix, January 1986 91 6 Organisational structure, 1 December 1989 93 7 The organisation implemented on 1 January 1991, following Price Waterhouse 119 8 The organisational structure on 1 August 1994 132 9 A major restructuring on 1 April 1997 160 10 The structure on the reintroduction of matrix management in April 2000 193 Table 1 Details of mapping contracts let to universities as at July 2000 70 Plates 1 Aerial view of the Keyworth site 9 2 G M Brown, Director from 1979 to 1985 12 3 G I Lumsden, Director from 1985 to 1987 49 4 F G Larminie, Director from 1987 to 1990 55 5 P J Cook, Director from 1990 to 1998 117 6 D A Falvey, Director from January 1998 185 v Preface This book is Peter Allen’s account of the events that affected the role, status, organisation and management of the British Geological Survey during the latter part of the twentieth century. The author is particularly well qualified to write this account. He joined the Survey (then the Institute of Geological Sciences) in 1967. After a period working overseas he transferred to the Land Survey in 1970 and was based in the Leeds Office. His interest in the way the Survey was run soon found expression in trades-union activity. He was active within the Leeds Subsection of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants during the 1970s and was chairman of the IGS Section of IPCS between 1978 and 1981. In 1978, when the transfer of staff to the new headquarters at Keyworth was already under way, he took part in a Staff Side initiative that led to the establishment of a working party to identify and assess the scientific and organisational considerations for and against the centralisation of IGS staff in England and Wales. As a result of this, district offices were opened in Aberystwyth and Newcastle and the Joint Official/Staff Side Committee on Keyworth (JOSCK), which oversaw the move, was established. In 1985 he was secretary to the Survey's first Strategic Plan Working Party. His first management position was Programme Manager for the Lower Palaeozoic, Southern Uplands and Lake District, which he took up in 1984 when he was based in Newcastle. Following this, after a short period in charge of the South-western England Programme, based in Exeter, he became an Assistant Director in 1987 and served on the Directorate until he retired at the end of June 2000. Peter started this book during his last weeks of service and completed it dur- ing his retirement. To a certain extent it is a personal story, reflecting his own experiences and viewpoint, but it is well researched and provides an authoritative account of the period. Nearly all of the events described have been in the public record for some time, but much of the background information and analysis is published here for the first time. In gathering this information the author has been allowed access to confidential BGS papers as well as documents that are in the public domain. Throughout, he sought documentary evidence to support his analysis rather than rely on his memory. The book covers a time of transition for all public services in the UK; a time of change in the perception of how a public-service organisation should be run; a time when the public services were forced to become increasingly commercial in their outlook, with a concomitant change in the nature of their customer base; a vi time of stringency in public-sector budgets; and, not least, a time of revolution in information technology. The British Geological Survey shares some experiences in common with other parts of the public sector during this time, but in other respects it is unique. This book, therefore, is a case history of a public body undergoing change. It will be read by those interested in the recent history of the BGS, but it should also attract a wider readership among students of the history of geological surveys, public administration and the management of science in government. The book provides insights into how one public body has responded to changes in the polit- ical, social and technological environment within which it exists. Many of the ideas for change came from outside the BGS; others were internally stimulated. Not all were well conceived and the book covers in detail the way in which the Survey resisted and, ultimately, defeated some of the worst of them. The reader may find it heartening to learn that so many of the least appropriate proposals were eventually defeated, but may also be more than a little dismayed at the enor- mous expenditure of time, effort and money required to achieve this end, all of which could have been better spent carrying out the geoscientific research for which the BGS exists. I am indebted to Peter for providing this invaluable record for us. David A Falvey, PhD Executive Director vii Foreword There are five histories of the British Geological Survey (BGS) currently avail- able. The first was written by Sir John Smith Flett, The first hundred years of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. It was a memorial volume to celebrate the centenary of the Survey and contained a full and systematic account of its growth and development. In 1952, Sir Edward Battersby Bailey published the Geological Survey of Great Britain. In the preface he says that he wrote it originally for the British Council, to appear in their series Science in Britain, but the series was dis- continued so he published it as a book rather than waste the effort he had put into it.
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