Public Services International Research Unit, PSIRU

The PSIRU was set up in 1998 to carry out empirical research into privatisation, public services, and globalisation. It is based in the School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Greenwich. PSIRU's research is based on the maintenance of an extensive database of information on the economic, political, financial, social and technicalexperience with privatisations of public services worldwide.

The principal focus at present is on the water, energy, waste management and healthcare. Other local and central government services, and computing services are also covered. PSIRU is planning a series of research projects with specialists in water, energy, environmental studies, law, labour relations, economics, and mathematics to extend the data collected and the analysis of that data.