From 1981 until 2005 Professor Gillian Stamp was the Director of the Brunel Institute of Organisation and Social Studies (BIOSS) a self-financing research institute founded at Brunel University, Uxbridge, forty years ago and now a community of daughter institutes across the world. The focus of BIOSS is on people at work and the conditions that help both to thrive. BIOSS The Foundation is responsible for research and development.

Gillian is the author of Career Path Appreciation© - a procedure to evaluate the way people to make decisions in the face of uncertainty; of The Tripod of Work© - a model of the conditions in which people at work can be confident and competent and of The Four Journeys© - a way of thinking about the balance between work, private life and personal development; and of Knowledge Appreciation – a human approach to knowledge management.

She was a member of the Council of St George’s House for seven years and has been a Fellow of the Windsor Leadership Trust since 2001. She is an adviser to the Archbishops’ Council, the National Defense University in Washington DC, the Scottish Executive, the UK National School of Government, the chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence, the CEO of the Employers’ Forum for Disability, the CEO of the Community Action Network and to Chief Executives and Chairmen in the UK, South Africa, India, Singapore and the US.

Gillian was married to Colin for more than forty years; they have two sons and four grandchildren.