Michael Anderson, OBE, FRSE, FBA (born 21 February 1942) [1] is an economic historian and retired academic. He was Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh between 1979 and 2007.
Born in 1942, Anderson attended Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating in 1964 and then completing a PhD five years later. [1] He joined the University of Edinburgh in 1967 as an assistant lecturer and was promoted to a full lectureship in 1969 [1] and a readership in sociology in 1975. He was appointed Professor of Economic History in 1979, retiring in 2007. [2] He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages from 1985 to 1989, Vice-Principal from 1989 to 1990, [1] and Senior Vice-Principal from 2000 to 2007. [2] Outside of academia, he was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland from 2000 to 2012. [2]
Anderson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences) in 1989, and served on its council from 1995 to 1998. [2] In 1990, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [3] He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh (2007) [4] and the University of Leicester (2014), [5] and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Birthday Honours "for services to educationalism". [6]
Donald Angus MacKenzie is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. His work constitutes a crucial contribution to the field of science and technology studies. He has also developed research in the field of social studies of finance. He has undertaken widely cited work on the history of statistics, eugenics, nuclear weapons, computing and finance, among other things.
Dame Hazel Gillian Genn, DBE, KC (Hon), FBA is a leading authority on civil justice whose work has had a major influence on policy-makers around the world, and is a former Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at University College London.
Hugh Nigel Kennedy is a British medievalist and academic. He specialises in the history of the early Islamic Middle East, Muslim Iberia and the Crusades. From 1997 to 2007, he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.
Michael Keating is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European politics, regional politics, and devolution. He is Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change at the University of Edinburgh.
John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA is an Irish-British sociologist who was the former President of the British Sociological Association (2009–12), and was Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast (2013–2023), and is now Emeritus Professor in the Mitchell Institute. He was awarded the 2023 Distinguished Service Prize by the British Sociological Association for service to British sociology. He is also Honorary Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University (2017–present) and Honorary Professor of Sociology, Warwick University (2021–present). He was formerly Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen (2004–13). He is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts for his work on peace processes (2010–present). He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Brunel University for services to social science.
Jonathan Robert Spencer, is a British social anthropologist and academic. Since 2014, he has been the Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society at the University of Edinburgh.
Dame Victoria Geraldine Bruce,, known as Vicki Bruce, is an English psychologist, Professor of Psychology and former Head of the School of Psychology at Newcastle University. She is known for her work on human face perception and person memory, including face recognition and recall by eyewitnesses and gaze. and other aspects of social cognition. She is also interested in visual cognition more generally. She was made a Dame in the 2015 Birthday Honours list.
John Peter Scott is an English sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology, social stratification, the history of sociology, and social network analysis. He is currently working independently, and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Leicester, Essex, and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association since 1970. In 2015 he became Chair of Section S4 of the British Academy. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Essex University.
The School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) at the University of Edinburgh is a unit within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Its constituent departments conduct research and teaching in the following disciplines:
Sarah Jean Broadie was a British philosopher, a Professor of Moral Philosophy and Wardlaw Professor at the University of St Andrews. Broadie specialised in ancient philosophy, with a particular emphasis on Aristotle and Plato. Her work engages with metaphysics and both ancient and contemporary ethics. She achieved numerous honours throughout her career as an academic philosopher. Broadie studied Greats at Somerville College, Oxford, graduating in 1960. Previously she worked at the University of Edinburgh, University of Texas at Austin, Yale, Rutgers, and Princeton.
April Mary Scott McMahon is a British academic administrator and linguist, who is Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students at the University of Manchester.
Jonquil Fiona Williams, is a British retired academic of social policy whose research covers gender, race, ethnicity, and the welfare state. From 1996 to 2012, she was Professor of Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She was previously a lecturer at the Polytechnic of North London, Plymouth Polytechnic, and the Open University, before becoming Professor of Applied Social Studies at the University of Bradford.
Richard G. Rodger, FRHistS, FAcSS, is a historian specialising in the urban, economic and social history of modern Britain. Previously Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, and from 2007-2017 Professor of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University.
Paul Joseph Boyle,, FRSGS, FLSW is a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019. He had been Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2014, and Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014. He took over as Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year.
Nicholas Hugh Roe, FBA, FRSE is a scholar of English literature and an academic, specialising in romantic literature and culture. Since 1996, he has been Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. After completing his undergraduate degrees and doctorate at Trinity College, Oxford, Roe joined St Andrews as a lecturer in English in 1985; he was promoted to reader in 1993.
Peter France, FBA, FRSE, is a British academic and scholar of French literature, who served as Professor of French at the University of Edinburgh from 1980 to 1990.
Hamish Marshall Scott, was a Scottish historian and academic. He was Professor of International History then Wardlaw Professor of International History at the University of St Andrews. Having studied at the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics, he began his career lecturing at the University of Birmingham.
Ruth Hilary Finnegan is a Northern Irish linguistic anthropologist and Emeritus Professor of the Open University.
Angus Mcintosh, was a British linguist and academic, specialising in historical linguistics.