Lincoln Allison

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Lincoln Allison (born 5 October 1946 [1] in Hartlepool) is an English academic and essayist.

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Life and career

Allison grew up in Colne, Lancashire, and was educated at Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, and at University and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford. He was a research scholar at Stanford University before taking up a position at the University of Warwick, where he taught from 1969 to 2004. [2] Retired from full-time teaching, he is now Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick and visiting professor in the politics of sport at the University of Brighton. [3]

Commenting in 2023 on new rules which aim to restrict relationships between university staff and students, Allison said that as a young lecturer he "played sport with students, got drunk with students and made love with students. All of this seemed entirely normal on the campus of a new university in the late 1960s and early 1970s." [4]

He is most noted for his work on the politics of sport, for which he was awarded a D.Litt in 2003, [5] but he has also produced books on a number of other topics and been a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers since the 1970s.

He married Ann McDonnell in 1975; they have three sons.

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References

  1. ↑ "Good Old New Society". lincolnallison.com. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Dr Lincoln Allison". Pembroke College. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "My Father's Bookcase by Lincoln Allison". goodreads. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Should universities ban staff-student relationships?". Times Higher Education. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  5. ↑ "Dr Lincoln Allison Awarded Higher Doctorate". University of Warwick. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
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