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An independent, international academy founded in 1982 with the mission to advance knowledge of occupational and environmental health, prevent disease and save lives.

In 1976, the University Court approved the establishment of a university archive: "Having considered the view that the University now needed the services of an archivist to identify, record and collate relevant material." The appointment of an honorary archivist and an archival assistant was approved and, in February 1977, Emeritus Professor S. G. E. Lythe became the full-time honorary archivist. Bruce Jackson was appointed archival assistant in April 1977 and James S. McGrath archivist in 1980/1981. In 2005, the University Library officially took over responsibility for the University Archives and a combined department of Archives and Special Collections was established.

Julian Peto was an epidemiologist whose dose-response models for asbestos-related cancers contributed directly to reducing industrial exposure levels and subsequently to the European asbestos ban, and are still the accepted basis for environmental risk assessment.

The Department of History at Strathclyde came into being in the 1960s and rapidly developed throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1959, the Department of Industrial Administration in the Royal College of Science and Technology was beginning to build up an inter-disciplinary team. By 1960 seven academics brought their individual specialisations to the staff: General Studies, Philosophy, History, Geography and Urban Planning and Literature. These staff members were: I.F. Clarke, Christopher Macrae, John Butt, Donald Gordon, Peter Green, Christopher Wiseman and Michael Gregory.

These members of staff, alongside others in the Royal College of Science and Technology, joined the campaign for university status and with it the inclusion of Arts and Social Studies. In 1961 Sir Keith Murray and the University Grants Committee (UGC) accepted the College for university status. The following year, March 1962, the Royal College saw further development, with five new departments created: Economics, Politics, Psychology, Administration and Economic History.

In 1962 Samuel George Edgar Lythe became the founding Professor of Economic History at the Royal College of Science and Technology. In 1963 five members of staff made up the Economic History department: Lythe, John Ward, Richard Wilson, Michael Sanderson, and John Moore. In 1964 the Royal College merged with the Scottish College of Commerce and became the University of Strathclyde. Two members of staff joined the Economic History Department from the College of Commerce: Tom McAloon and Barbara Thatcher. Gordon Jackson also joined in 1964, as did John Butt who introduced American Economic History to the department.

In 1974 the Senate and Court approved Lythe’s request for a new degree course: Modern History was founded in the university. The History department was then able to teach two-degree courses. John T. Ward was appointed as the first Professor of Modern History at Strathclyde. Lythe was also granted approval in 1974 to rename the department. It was no longer Economic History, but the Department of History.

Richard Doll was one of the most highly celebrated epidemiologists of the 20th century, He was best known for his work on smoking and lung cancer.

William Hamish Fraser was appointed Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde in 1967 and became Senior Lecturer in 1977. He was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from 1987 to 1993, and Professor in History from 1996 until his retirement in 2003, when he became Professor Emeritus.

Fraser obtained an undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen and a PhD in history at the University of Sussex in 1968.

Fraser published throughout his academic career on Scottish labour and social history. A selection of his publications include:

• 'Trade Unions and Society: the struggle for acceptance, 1850-1880', 1974
• 'The Coming of the Mass Market, 1850 -1914', 1981
• 'Conflict and class: Scottish workers, 1700-1838', 1988
• 'People and Society in Scotland', 1988
• 'Alexander Campbell and the Search for Socialism', 1996
• ‘A History of British Trade Unionism, 1700-1998’, 1999
• 'Chartism in Scotland', 2010
• 'The Wars of Archibald Forbes', 2015
• 'The Edinburgh History of Scottish newspapers', 1850 -1950, 2023

Cape Industries Ltd was registered in December 1893 as Cape Asbestos Company Ltd. It was incorporated in 1957. Its name changed to 'Cape Industries Limited' in 1974. Originally a company that specialised in mining asbestos, Cape developed asbestos-free products in the 1970s and developed a scaffolding division.

Douglas Logan was an undergraduate student, 1962-1967, a research student, 1967-1969, and a lecturer in the department of Civil Engineering, 1970-1990, at the University of Strathclyde. He was a member of the British Computer Society from 1973 to 2000, an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE) until 2000, and a chartered engineer from 1990 to 2000.

Donald Pack was Professor of Mathematics, 1953-1982, and Vice-Principal, 1968-1972, at the University of Strathclyde.

The Audio Visual Unit became the Centre for Educational Practice in 1976, then Audio Visual Services from 1983 until 1994 when it was renamed A V Media Services.