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Andrew Jardine was born on 25 March 1910 and was the oldest child of Andrew Jardine, a licensed grocer and wine merchant, and his wife, Katherine Gibb Grönbech, a medical missionary. The family lived at 'Thornton' on Thorn Drive, Bearsden, near Glasgow and Andrew Jardine junior was educated at Bearsden Academy and Allan Glen's School. He subsequently trained as an engineer, serving apprenticeships with John Brown & Company Ltd of Clydebank, where he worked on the Queen Mary, and with Mavor and Coulson, coal cutters. His apprentice master there, Sam Mavor, was a Governor of the Royal Technical College of Glasgow (RTC).

While pursuing his apprenticeship by day, Jardine enrolled for an evening class in Workshop Organization and Management at the RTC in session 1931-1932, completing this successfully to gain a first class certificate of merit. He also took an evening class in Mathematics that session. Over the next few years, Jardine enrolled for further evening studies at the RTC, taking classes in Mathematics and Engineering Metallurgy in session 1932-1933; Engineering Metallurgy, Metallography Lectures and Metallography Laboratory in session 1933-1934, and Engineering Economics in session 1934-1935. His younger sister, Isabella, also enrolled for an evening course in Botany at the RTC in session 1932-1933. During his studies, Jardine joined the RTC Athletic Club and was Art Editor of the student magazine, 'The Mask'. He also served successively as President and Treasurer of the Evening Students' Representative Council. In 1933, he received the Mavor and Coulson Gold Medal as the best Fifth Year Engineering Apprentice in the firm.

Jardine moved to London in the mid-1930s and married Jessie Cunningham Kinnear of Crail, Fife, in 1936. He also saw wartime service from 1939-1947: in Air Raid Precautions (ARP), as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (Special Branch), and as a Major in the Corps of Royal Engineers. He later served as Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army Emergency Reserve.

In London, Jardine forged a successful career as a consulting engineer, establishing the firm of Andrew Jardine and Company: Assessors; Engineering and Industrial Consultants; Engineering; Marine and General Surveyors. He qualified as a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng.) and was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (F.I.Mech.E), a Fellow of the Welding Institute (F.Weld.I.) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce (F.R.S.A.). He maintained his connections with Allan Glen's School through the Allan Glen's Old Boys' Club (London), of which he was Chairman, and with the Royal Technical College through his membership of its Former Students' Association (London branch).
He was also actively involved in local politics, initially as a member of Chiswick Borough Council (1949-1955), where he was Honorary Borough Marshal from 1952-1955. Subsequent appointments included: Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex (1958); Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Middlesex (1962); Middlesex County Councillor (1954-1958 and 1961-1965); and Alderman of Greater London Council (1964-1967), where he was also Vice Chairman of the Public Health Services Committee, Vice Chairman of the Public Services Committee, Chairman of the Ambulance Committee and Chairman of the Fire Brigade Committee. He was part of the St John's Ambulance Brigade (1956-1966) and was created a Serving Brother of the Order of St John in 1969. He was also a member of the Metropolitan Water Board (1955-1958 and 1962-1973, serving as Chairman from 1968-1969); Conservator of the River Thames (1957-1958 and 1961); Chairman of the London and South Eastern Regional Committee of the British Waterworks Association (1968-1972); Vice Chairman of the Thames Bridges Joint Committee (1963-1964); Governor of Brunel College of Technology (1956-1958), and Chairman of the Governors of Chiswick Polytechnic (1962-1965 and 1968-1971).

Jardine held various other voluntary positions, including President of the British Legion; member of Hounslow District Community Health Council (1974); member of the Department of Health and Social Security's Central Advisory Committee (1970), and Chairman of Hounslow, Hammersmith and Richmond War Pensions Committee. He was greatly interested in water supply and the River Thames and strove to raise the recognised skill status of firefighters and ambulance crews and to standardise the firefighting equipment used by different County Brigades. He was appointed MBE in 1978 and died in 1984.

John MacLaren was Professor of Thermodynamics and Mechanics of Fluids at the University of Strathclyde.

The Television Unit was renamed Audio Visual Media in 1969.

The department produced programmes to support preservice and in-service courses and to train staff and students in the educational use of the media.

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.

Carolyn Ann Converse was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA on 29 July 1942, the oldest of four children of Donald R. Converse and Doris L. Blomberg Converse. Donald Converse worked for IBM, and, following the Second World War, the family moved frequently as he was relocated to offices in different American cities. In 1948, he resigned from IBM and set up his own business so that they might have a stable home life in one place. The family settled in the town of Wilton, Connecticut, where Carolyn spent the rest of her childhood. Her father died in 1957 and her mother married Walter Snipe a little over a year later, the family subsequently relocating to Maine in 1960.

Also in 1960, Carolyn began her undergraduate studies at Pembroke College, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. A scholarship covered her tuition fees and about half of her accommodation and subsistence costs, and she earned the rest through on-campus jobs and summer employment. She graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science with High Honors in Biology from Brown University in 1964 and was accepted for doctoral study in Biophysics at Harvard University, funded by a five-year studentship from the National Science Foundation. The first two years of the postgraduate programme (1964-1966) consisted of attending classes, with her PhD research commencing in session 1966-1967. Carolyn conducted her doctoral research at Massachusetts General Hospital, supervised by Dr Frank F. Richards and Professor Edgar Haber. In 1967, Dr Richards took up an associate professorship at Yale Medical School and Carolyn consequently moved to New Haven, Connecticut as a visiting student at Yale, while continuing to work on her Harvard PhD thesis, which she completed at the end of 1969. Her doctorate was officially granted in 1970. She continued at Yale as a postdoctoral researcher for several months while applying for a research position at the University of Oxford.

In the summer of 1970, Carolyn moved to Oxford and commenced research with Jeremy Knowles in the Organic Chemistry Department there, sponsored by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the (US-based) Arthritis Foundation. While at Oxford, she met her husband, Dr (now Professor) Alan Cooper, and they married in 1971. In 1973, Carolyn returned to Yale University with her husband, where she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Pathology Department, working with David Papermaster in a new direction, doing research on the eye, and eye diseases. This would become her research focus for the rest of her academic career.

The difficulty of securing permanent posts for both of them in the same city in the USA prompted the couple to return to the UK in 1976, where Alan took up a lectureship in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow and Carolyn held a postdoctoral fellowship there, conducting research on the eye in collaboration with Professor Foulds at the Western Infirmary for three years. During this time, the couple’s son Ben was born. In 1979, Carolyn was appointed Lecturer in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, her primary role being to teach biochemistry to pharmacy students, while still carrying out research on eye diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa. She was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1987 and retired in 2007, by which time the Department had become part of the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (SIPBS).

After her retirement, Carolyn served as an Honorary Lecturer in SIPBS from 2007-2009. She also took a course on teaching English, volunteered as an English tutor to new immigrants for around 10 years, and pursued genealogical research, serving as Secretary of the Genealogy Club affiliated to the University of Strathclyde’s Learning in Later Life Students’ Association. Having completed several art courses through the University of Strathclyde’s Centre for Lifelong Learning, she gained a Certificate of Higher Education in Creative Arts in 2015.

James Stirling Boyd was born on 9 September 1874 in the parish of Newbattle, Edinburgh to Thomas Boyd, a joiner, and his wife Jane (nee Stirling). James initially entered his father's trade, but had higher ambitions. As a 21-year-old apprentice joiner, he enrolled at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College (GWSTC), where he pursued evening studies from session 1895-1896 to session 1899-1900. Having taken classes in Building Construction, Architecture, and Architectural Drawing, supplemented by a summer course in Mathematics in session 1902-1903, Boyd gained the GWSTC Course Certificate in Architecture and the GWSTC Course Certificate in Building Construction in 1904.

On 4 August 1899, while still an evening student, Boyd married Catherine Jane Grant, a dressmaker, in Paisley. By this time, he had completed his apprenticeship and was working as a journeyman joiner in Paisley. The couple went on to have two daughters, Catherine, born in 1900, and Jane, born in 1904.

Shortly after his marriage, Boyd became an Assistant Lecturer in Building Construction at Paisley Technical College. On 7 June 1901, he was appointed as Assistant (later Lecturer and Chief Assistant) to Charles Gourlay, Professor of Architecture and Building Construction at the GWSTC. There, Boyd's responsibilities included lecturing on courses in Carpentry and Joinery, Masonry, Brickwork and Building Construction, History of Architecture, Constructive and Historical Design, and Architectural Descriptive Geometry, as well as delivering special courses of lectures on Stereotomy.

Whilst employed at the GWSTC, Boyd spent his summers measuring and sketching the architectural features of various churches in Scotland and England. In 1909, he also spent eight weeks studying and photographing Renaissance architecture in London, at Hampton Court, in Paris and at Versailles. In 1910, he was elected as a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (LRIBA), with Gourlay acting as one of his proposers.

During World War I, Boyd served as an Inspector for the Admiralty. In September 1917, the Chairman’s Committee of the Royal Technical College (RTC, formerly known as the GWSTC) considered his position, noting that ‘Mr. Boyd is acting as an Inspector under the Admiralty, and his services are not available to the College except for evening work. It is recommended that payments to him for the current financial year in respect of salary shall bring his total income from the Admiralty and from the College up to £250, provided that the payments from the College shall not exceed £100.'

Boyd resigned from the RTC in September 1918 and subsequently moved to England where he practiced as an architect in Sidcup, Kent. He later lived at 5 Wallace Road, Bath, and at 84 Hill Crescent, Bexley, Kent.

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Strathclyde, 1966-1968; Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Strathclyde, 1968-1995; Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University of Strathclyde, 1995-1997; Retired 1997.

Karen Morrison was employed as a secretary in the School of Mechanical, Civil and Chemical Engineering at the Royal College of Science and Technology in the 1960s. She went on to hold various secretarial roles in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Strathclyde. In 2002, she was Academic Administrator, Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Strathclyde..