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Stanley Tweddle was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and Carlisle Technical College. He gained City and Guilds Certificates in Automobile Engineering and Electrical Engineering while working at Graham and Roberts Ltd, a large private car and commercial vehicle distributor and dealership. He joined Albion Motors, Scotstoun, Glasgow as an apprentice and attended evening classes at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow in 1938. He served with the Royal Navy during World War Two, working his way up to the rank of Lieutenant (Engineering). After the war, he rejoined Albion Motors and attended the Royal Technical College as a sandwich student from 1948 to 1952 and was awarded the Associateship of the College. In 1950, he joined Fibreglass Ltd as a production department manager. In 1952 he attended Syracuse University in New York State. On his return, he became Chief Engineer of Fibreglass. He retired in 1981.

John Gennard was the Inaugural Chair in Industrial Relations at the University of Strathclyde, 1981-1983. He served as Vice Dean,1983-1987, and then Dean, 1987-1993, of Strathclyde Business School. From 1997 he was the Head of Human Resource Management at the University of Strathclyde.

Ronald Reid Selbie Simpson was a lecturer in engineering at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, 1966-1969, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde in 1970. He went on to become the Vice-Dean of the Engineering faculty, associate Dean and course director for the department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.

Andrew McGettrick originally studied Pure Mathematics at the University of Glasgow where he obtained his BSc (1st class) degree in 1966. He began his teaching career in 1969 as Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Strathclyde. He was subsequently reader, 1982-1983, and personal professor, 1983-1985. McGettrick then became Professor of Computer Science, taking on the role of Chairman and Head of the Department of Computer Science, 1984-1990 and 1996-2004.

Stewart McIntosh gained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Strathclyde in the 1970's and was President of the Student's Association in 1973.

Educated at Birkbeck College, University of London, Graham Hills graduated BSc in 1946 and PhD in 1950. After a period as Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Imperial College, London from 1949 to 1962, he was appointed Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Southampton from 1962 to 1980. Hills was then appointed as the second Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde, took up the appointment on 1 December 1980 and served until 1991. He was knighted in 1988.

Hills received many honorary degrees, fellowships and marks of esteem from institutions throughout the world. He served as advisor to many public bodies in the United Kingdom, and was National Governor for Scotland of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1989 to 1994. He also advised on the establishment of the University of the Highlands and Islands, a visionary project which brought access to higher education to remote areas of Scotland, based on distributed campuses throughout the region.

Barbara Graham was a career adviser, 1974-1990, Deputy Director of the Careers Service, 1990-1994, and Director of the Careers Service, from 1995, at the University of Strathclyde.

Peter Robson was Professor of Social Welfare Law at the University of Strathclyde since 1970. He also taught Jurisprudence. Professor Robson became the chairman of Shelter in 1984.