In October 1988, the Department of Organisation, Management and Employment Relations was formed from the merger of the Department of Administration and the Department of Industrial Relations. In 1990, the department was renamed the Department of Human Resource Management.
In 1981, the Industrial Relations section of the Department of Economics was granted independent departmental status and the first Professor of Industrial Relations was appointed. On 1 October 1988, the Department merged with the Department of Administration to form the Department of Organisation, Management and Employment Relations.
The School of Business and Administration was established in 1964. It ceased to exist in 1982, when the Strathclyde Business School was constituted as one of the four new faculties of the University of Strathclyde.
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was created in 2010 as a result of the merger of the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.
The Special Needs Service worked with students and staff with difficulties or disabilities to find the best way round problems and to take advantage of available services, assessments, equipment or grants.
The Student Advisory and Counselling Service offered confidential counselling, information and advice to all students on both academic and personal matters.
In 1933, the Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering were amalgamated as the single Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. In 1947, the Department's name was changed to Civil and Mechanical Engineering. In 1956, the name was again changed, to Department of Mechanical, Civil and Chemical Engineering. On the establishment of the University of Strathclyde in 1964, the Department of Mechanical, Civil and Chemical Engineering was split into three departments, namely Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Chemical Engineering.
The UK Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) was founded in 1964 in order to provide a professional organisation to cater for the growing number of food professionals who were ineligible to join a single discipline institution. By 1968 the organisation had become an incorporated body with memorandum, articles of association and by-laws.
The IFST aims to provide independent objective advice and information on all matters relating to food science, food technology and food professionalism, and make this freely available for the public uninfluenced by sectoral or political motives. It produces policy statements and submissions on draft food legislation both in the UK and Europe, works to set and maintain standards of professional education through the promotion of the Master of Food Control and other professional qualifications, and also publishes newsletters, professional publications and various manuals and articles relating to food science and technology.
The International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) was established in 1970. It is a voluntary, non-profit federation of national food science organisations whose aim is to help secure the world's food supply and eliminate hunger.
The feasibility of establishing an international organisation of food scientists and technologists dedicated to the nutritional needs of the world had first been informally explored in 1960 during the Symposium on Recent Advances in Food Science organised by Professor John Hawthorn of the Royal College of Science and Technology in Glasgow, which was soon to become the University of Strathclyde. Subsequently, in 1962, it was explored again during the First International Congress of Food Science and Technology held in London under the Presidency of Lord Joseph Rank, a prominent flour miller. As a result of the 1962 Congress, an International Committee of Food Science and Technology was set up. It was the work of this committee which led to the founding of the International Union of Food Science and Technology.
IUFoST's activities focus on international co-operation, exchange of scientific and technical knowledge and education and training. It has a regular publishing programme of conference reports, scientific reports and newsletters.