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Jois Stansfield is emeritus professor of speech pathology at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has a long-standing collaboration with Dr Linda Armstrong on the history of speech therapy and has also written on learning disability, disorders of fluency and professional education.

Dr Linda Armstrong is a retired speech and language therapist whose varied career included clinical work as well as research and teaching. She was a member of RCSLT for more than 30 years. She has a long standing collaboration with Jois Stansfield on the history of speech therapy.

Marion Henry was a history student at the University of Strathclyde and in 2012, worked on a research project about mining in British Coalfields between 1945 and 1984, with particular reference to all kinds of music that could permeate miners’ lives.

Marion then became a PhD student, around 2017, in joint supervision at the Center d'Histoire de Sciences Po (CHSP) (Paris) and at the Scottish Oral History Center (SOHC) at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow). Her research in this area, 'Building identity with music: a political and cultural history of British Coalfields 1945 — 1984', continued and looked at the organisation of musical activities in the coalfields of Scotland, the Midlands and the North-East of England between 1945 and 1984, with a specific interest in the brass band movements of the areas.

Robert M Kenedi was born in Hungary. He arrived in Glasgow to study civil engineering at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow in 1938 where he received an Associateship. He continued to study at the University of Glasgow where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science in 1941 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1949. He was awarded the James Muir Prize in 1940 and the Dr J. Mackenzie Prize for research in 1943.

In 1941 Kenedi was appointed to the Royal Technical College as a research assistant in the department of civil and mining engineering and applied mechanics, he became a lecturer in 1945, then senior lecturer in 1947. In 1956 he became reader in strength and materials. In 1963 the Medical Research Council made a grant for the institution of a Bioengineering Unit at Strathclyde and Kenedi was appointed Professor and head of the Unit. This subsequently became the Wolfson Centre following an additional grant from the Wolfson Foundation which Kenedi steered to widespread international recognition as a postgraduate teaching and research institution.

Kenedi took early retirement in 1980 to become the Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He returned to Strathclyde in 1984 as Advisor on External Relations to the Principal's Office establishing the University's European Office and the Learning in Later Life programme. Kenedi was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of the University of Strathclyde in 1991.

Kennerley was Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Strathclyde Business School from 1973 to 1983. He was Convener of the Academic Board from 1973 to 1981.

Kirkwood joined the University of Strathclyde in 1964 as a lecturer in biology, then senior lecturer in 1972 and reader in 1982.

Lythe was Professor of Economic History, 1962-1976, Vice-Principal, 1972-1976, and Honorary Archivist,1977-1980, at the University of Strathclyde.

Lythe graduated with an MA from Selwyn College, Cambridge after which he was employed as a lecturer at the University of Hull. In 1935, he moved to Dundee School of Economics. During the Second World War he served in the RAF. After the war, he continued working at the Dundee School of Economics where he pioneered the teaching of economic history, publishing in 1950 the groundbreaking book 'British Economic History since 1760'.

In 1962, he was appointed to the first Chair of Economic History at the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow. In 1963, there were only four other lecturers teaching alongside Lythe in the department. After the College gained University status in 1964 becoming the University of Strathclyde, Lythe strove to develop the department, for example introducing political history. In 1974, he obtained approval from the Senate and Court for a new degree course in Modern History. A new Chair was created and the department renamed the Department of History.

Lythe was appointed the first Dean of the School of Arts and Social Studies and served in this role for nine years. In 1972, he was appointed Vice Principal of the University. He retired in 1976. In 1977, he was appointed Honorary Archivist in which role he collected and established the University's historical collections. He served as Honorary Archivist until 1980.

In addition to his appointments at Strathclyde, Lythe was a founding member, in the 1960s, of the Abertay Historical Society. He also produced booklets on the history of Walkington, the village in which he grew up. He was a member of the Scottish Local History Council, Hamilton College of Education, the Scottish Field of Archaeology, and the Scottish Universities Summer School Committee.

He died in 1997.

Selected publications:

• 'British Economic History since 1760', 1950
• 'The Economy of Scotland in its European Setting 1550-1625', 1960
• 'The Economic History of Scotland 1100 to 1939', 1975
• 'A History of Dundee School of Economics', 1981 (Co author)

David Butts joined Jordanhill College of Education as Director of Educational Television in 1966, following a spell in teaching, and later with the BBC Schools’ Service.

He began by designing a television studio at Jordanhill, as well as in classrooms and on location, and he and his producers were soon developing programmes - an output which College lecturers built into their teaching. These programmes were also sent, via cable, from Jordanhill to the Glasgow Educational Television Service in Bath Street for onward transmission to Glasgow schools – where they were used for in-service training of teachers. The programmes won many national awards.

David realised the need for a strategy to develop the use of audio-visual methods in education. For this, he turned to the relatively new discipline of educational technology, which used a ‘systems approach’ to teaching and learning.

In 1969, David organised an international conference on educational technology in Glasgow which established Jordanhill’s reputation as a leader in the field and his own standing as an educational thinker and innovator.

By this time, his strategy for audio-visual developments within the college had led him to set up practical courses for students in the use of audio-visual technology in the classroom. The department’s name soon changed from Television Unit to Audio-Visual Media Department to reflect that wider role.

In 1976, David started to develop a post-graduate Diploma in Educational Technology for serving teachers, lecturers, librarians and trainers. In order to accommodate peoples’ working patterns, David planned that the course be delivered by distance learning, a technique pioneered by the Open University which had started in 1972. The course started in 1978 and was delivered via weekly course booklets with built-in student activities and feedback, slides, audio tapes and very early experiments with telephone audio-conferencing. Tutorials and the practical elements of the course were delivered at regular weekends and Easter and Summer schools in College. The course was subsequently validated by the Council for National Academic Awards (CNAA), the body which enabled University level degrees and diplomas to be awarded by colleges and polytechnics. He also initiated a Diploma in Media Education aimed at both students and teachers and lecturers.

In 1980, he retired from Jordanhill and moved to the University of Stirling, to teach and to do research work in Media Education - as well as taking on an evaluation role in a collaborative project of the University in teacher education. As a result of that body of work in media and educational technology, David was awarded an OBE in 1983 for services to education.

David continued to teach media studies at the University of Stirling and attend conferences until his retirement in 1996 at the age of 77.

Duncan Robertson Craig was born in 1927 on the island of Arran, Scotland, and educated at the local primary school in Sliddery, followed by Keil School in Dumbarton. He enrolled as a student at the Royal Technical College of Glasgow (RTC) in 1944, qualifying for the Diploma in Engineering Science in 1946 and the Associateship in Electrical Engineering in 1947. After finishing his studies, Craig travelled to Burma for National Service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. For most of his working life he was employed at IBM in Greenock, where he worked on computers and systems. He died in Greenock in 1998, aged 70.