The School of Arts and Social Studies was established in 1964 on the creation of the University of Strathclyde. In 1982, it was reconstituted as the Faculty of Arts and Social Studies.
Barnard Castle School, County Durham, c 1882-1887
Apprenticeship at Central Marine Engine Works, West Hartlepool, 1887-1892
BSc in Engineering, Durham College of Science, 1892-1895
MSc, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1895-1896
Chief Technical Assistant, Messrs. T Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool, 1897
Chief Lecturer in Engineering, Battersea Polytechnic, 1898
Designer, Manchester School of Technology, 1899. Subsequently appointed Executive Engineer and then Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering.
Professor of Mechanism and Prime Movers, Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, 1905
Professor of motive power engineering, Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, 1906-1911
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Royal Technical College, 1911-1924
Professor of Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering, 1924-1936
Arthur Midwinter was director of the Public Sector Management Unit at the Strathclyde Business School in 1985 before becoming a senior lecturer in the Department of Politics, 1988-1990; reader, 1990-1991; professor and vice-dean (resources and planning) of arts and social sciences, 1992-1994; dean of arts and social sciences, 1994-1999; then retiring and becoming emeritus professor, 1999.
Miller was Euing lecturer on music at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow from 1897 to 1936.
Miller was an assistant in the Department of Mathematics at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College, Glasgow, 1899-1909, and Professor, 1909-1934.
In 2006, the University Management Group was renamed the University Management Committee. Its remit was to formulate policy proposals for consideration by Court and Senate on any matter within their remit but especially the teaching, research and academic development of the University and the University budget, resource allocation priorities, physical development and employment. It was also responsible to Court and Senate for the implementation of policy laid down by them.
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.
In March 1907, a committee of former students and associates of Professor James Blyth, professor of Natural Philosophy 1880-1906, was established to raise funds for a memorial to him. The memorial eventually took the form of endowing the Blyth Memorial Prizes, and erecting a wall plaque in the College.