- Alan Dix
Alan Dix is an expert in the field of Human-Computer Interaction. He is co-author of a widely-used university level textbook, entitled "Human-Computer Interaction". He is currently a professor at Lancaster University.
- John Urry
John Urry is a British sociologist, Professor at Lancaster University. He is noted for work in the fields of the sociology of tourism and mobility. He has written books on many other aspects of modern society including the transition away from 'organised capitalism', the sociology of nature and environmentalism, and social theory in general. Urry is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, …
- Paul Wellings
Paul Wellings was born in Nottingham on 1 November 1953. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and the universities of London (King's College London), Durham and East Anglia. In 1981, he moved to Australia as a research ecologist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), becoming Chief of the Entomology Division in 1995. In 1997 he was seconded to the Australian Commonwealth Government Department of Industry, …
- Lucy Suchman
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Before coming to Lancaster, she held the positions of Principal Scientist and manager of the Work Practice and Technology at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977 and a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984.
- Chris Bonington
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CBE (born 6 August 1934 in Hampstead, London) is an English mountaineer. He was educated at University College School in Hampstead and is one of the world's most experienced and successful mountaineers. In 1996, he was knighted for his services to the sport. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest and the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna.
- Ninian Smart
Additional biographical source: Ninian Smart. "Methods in My Life." Pp. 18-35 in "The Craft of Religious Studies", edited by Jon R. Stone. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Norman Fairclough
Norman Fairclough (1941 -) is emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is one of the founders of critical discourse analysis, a branch of sociolinguistics or discourse analysis that looks at the influence of power relations on the content and structure of writings.
- Charlie Gere
Charlie Gere is a British academic who is Director of Research at the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University
- Paul Heelas
Paul Heelas is Professor in Religion and Modernity at Lancaster University.
- Peter Checkland
British academic Peter Checkland (1930 -) is the developer of soft systems methodology (SSM) in the field of systems thinking. Peter Checkland was Professor of Systems at the Lancaster University where he is currently Professor Emeritus of Systems. Prior to that he worked in industry for 15 years as a manager in the ICI. It was during this time that he became interested in applying systems ideas to messy management problems.
- Jack Hylton
Jack Hylton (July 2, 1892-January 29, 1965) was an English band leader and impresario. He was born in the Great Lever area of Bolton, Lancashire and died in Marylebone, London. In 1965 a televised tribute to Hylton called "The Stars Shine for Jack" was held in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It included many artists including Arthur Askey, The Crazy Gang, Marlene Dietrich, Dickie Henderson, and Shirley Bassey.
- Alan Milburn
Alan Milburn (born 27 January 1958, Tow Law, County Durham) is a British politician. He is Labour MP for Darlington, and served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Health until he resigned citing lack of balance with his family life, and rejoined it as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for oversight of Labour's 2005 re-election campaign.
- Scott Lash
Scott Lash is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He took a BSc as in Psychology from the University of Michigan, MA in Sociology from Northwestern University, and PhD from the London School of Economics (1980). Lash began his teaching career as a Lecturer at Lancaster University where he became Professor in 1993.
- Robert Hewison
Robert Hewison (born 1943) is a British academic and author. In addition to being the Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford from 1999-2000, Hewison has written or co-written over 20 books on British culture in the age of mass media.
- John Whittaker
Dr John Whittaker (born June 7, 1945 in Oldham, Lancashire) is a Member of the European Parliament for the North West England region, for the United Kingdom Independence Party. Whittaker's PhD was in nuclear physics, but he later moved into economic theory and when he joined the academic world it was as an economist. He is a senior lecturer in economics at Lancaster University. His main research and teaching interests are in monetary policy and macroeconomics, …
- Janet Finch
Janet Finch is a British sociologist, and currently the Vice-Chancellor of Keele University in the UK, a position that she has held since 1995. Before that she was Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University. A sociologist by background, she has published on family relationships, social policy and gender. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and in 1999 she was awarded a CBE for services to social science.
- Andrew Miller
The novelist Andrew Miller was born on April 29, 1960 in Bristol. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 1991. In 1995 he wrote a Ph.D. in Critical and Creative Writing at Lancaster University. For his first book "Ingenious Pain" he received three awards, one of which was the prestigious IMPAC award. The book has been translated into 36 languages. He currently lives in Witham Friary in Somerset. His new novel will appear in September 2008.
- Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters is a British novelist. She is best known for her first novel, "Tipping the Velvet", as well the novels that followed, including "Affinity", "Fingersmith", and "The Night Watch".
- Stanley Henig
Stanley Henig (born 7 July 1939) is a British academic and former Labour Party politician. He is currently Deputy Pro-Chancellor of Lancaster University. An academic political scientist, he was one of the founders of the Department of Politics at Lancaster University in 1964. He later taught at the University of Warwick, the Civil Service College and at the University of Central Lancashire, …
- John Kerr
Admiral Sir John Kerr GCB, DL, (born 27 Oct. 1937) is a retired admiral in the Royal Navy. During his naval career he commanded a frigate, a guided missile destroyer and an aircraft carrier — HMS Illustrious. He was in charge of various task groups and was Chief of Defence Intelligence. Kerr's naval career culminated in his appointment as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command and member of the Board of Admiralty.
- Jason Queally
Jason Queally (born 11 May 1970) is an English track cyclist from Chorley, England. He won an Olympic Gold at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. While a student at Lancaster University, he represented Lancaster and British Universities in water polo. He took up competitive cycling aged 25. In 1996, he was nearly killed in an accident at the Meadowbank cycling track in Edinburgh, where an 18-inch sliver of the wooden track entered his chest cavity via his armpit.
- Sue Wise
Sue Wise (born 1953) is a feminist author, Professor of Social Justice and Director of Study for BA (Hons) Social Work at Lancaster University, UK. After having received a social science degree at Manchester Polytechnic, Sue Wise worked as a political activist for several years. In the 1970s and 1980s she was deeply involved in the Women's Movement and the Lesbian and Gay Movement, mainly in Manchester.
- Joan Humble
Jovanka Humble, known as Joan Humble (born March 3, 1951, Skipton, Yorkshire as Jovanka Piplikova), is a politician in the United Kingdom. She is Labour member of Parliament for Blackpool North and Fleetwood, and first won the seat in 1997.
- John Freeman
John Freeman is a British writer/editor/designer who began his media career editing the Lancaster University student newspaper "Scan" in 1981. After University he launched "On the Beat", a listings magazine for Lancaster, England, …
- Sarah Coakley
Sarah Coakley is an Anglican systematic theologian. Her training was at New Hall, Cambridge and Harvard Divinity School; her Ph.D. is from the University of Cambridge. She has taught in the United Kingdom at Lancaster University and the University of Oxford. Since 1993, she has taught at Harvard Divinity School, serving as the Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity since 1995.
- Richard Allinson
Richard John McNeill Allinson was born on 12 October 1958 in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Richard started his broadcasting with a 3 year stint at Bailrigg FM, whilst undertaking college courses at Fylde College, Lancaster University. He was firstly Treasurer and then became President of Bailrigg. After developing a passion for radio early on, Allinson chose a career in the industry and can now be heard on the BBC Radio network, most often on BBC Radio Two.
- Alan Campbell
Alan Campbell (born July 8, 1957) British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Tynemouth, and serves as a Government Whip and Lord Commissioner of HM Household. Alan Campbell was born in Consett and went to the Blackfyne Secondary School in the town before attending the University of Lancaster where he was awarded a degree in politics. He then qualified as a teacher at the University of Leeds, …
- James Chapman
James Chapman (born September 11, 1968) is a British media historian who has written a number of books on cinema and television. Chapman is Director of Film Studies and the Visual Arts at the University of Leicester.<P> <P> James Chapman took his BA (History) and MA (Film Studies) at the University of East Anglia and then undertook his doctoral research at Lancaster University, …
- Gwilym Jenkins
Gwilym Meirion Jenkins was a British statistician and systems engineer. His most notable contribution was pioneering work with George Box on autoregressive moving average models, also called Box-Jenkins models, in time-series analysis. He earned a first class honors degree in Mathematics in 1953 followed by a Ph.D. at University College London in 1956. After graduating, he married the former Margaret Bellingham and raised three children.
- Michael Buckland
Michael Buckland is an Emeritus Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Co-Director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative. Michael Buckland was born and grew up in England. He entered library work as a trainee at the Bodleian Library of the University of Oxford after studying History at that University. After taking his professional qualification in librarianship from the University of Sheffield, …
- Alan Chesters
The Right Reverend Alan David Chesters, CBE, was Bishop of Blackburn 1989-2003. Alan Chesters was born on 26 August 1937, the son of Herbert and Catherine Chesters, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He was educated at Elland Grammar School, St Chad's College, University of Durham (BA 1959), St Catherine's Society, Oxford (BA 1961, MA 1965), and St Stephen's House, Oxford (1959-62). He was ordained deacon in 1962, priest in 1963, and bishop in 1989.
- Phil Ineson
Professor Phil Ineson is a Chair in Global Change Ecology at the University of York. Ineson is particularly noted for his work with stable isotopes, and was the first to grow C3 plants on C4 soil. Ineson received his BSc from Manchester Polytechnic in 1982, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Liverpool in 1986. He was then a NERC Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at the University of Exeter until 1989.
- Owen Davies
Owen Davies is a reader in Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. His main field of research is on the history of modern and contemporary witchcraft and magic. His interest in the history of witchcraft and magic developed out of a childhood interest in folklore and mythology, which was spawned in part from reading the books of Alan Garner.
- Patrick Duffy
Dr. Sir Albert Edward Patrick Duffy PhD (born June 17, 1920), British Labour politician and economist, was Member of Parliament for Colne Valley 1963-1966, and for Sheffield Attercliffe 1970-1992. Patrick Duffy was educated at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, and served in the Fleet Air Arm in World War II. He contested the Parliamentary seat of Tiverton in 1950, 1951 and 1955 before moving to the more promising seat of Colne Valley.
- Glen Duncan
Glen Duncan is a British author born in 1965 in Bolton, Lancashire, England to an Anglo-Indian family. He studied philosophy and literature at Lancaster University. In 1990 Glen moved up to London, where he worked as a bookseller for Dillons for four years. In 1994 he travelled to India with his father before continuing on to America, where he travelled around on Amtrak trains.
- Jane Draycott
Jane Draycott (born 1954) is a British poet, who has worked in sound as well as text. Her poetry collections include "The Night Tree" (2004), "Tideway" (2002), "Prince Rupert's Drop" (1999), "Christina the Astonishing" (1998) with Lesley Saunders, and "No Theatre" (1997). She has been poet in residence at the River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames and lectures in creative writing at the Universities of Reading, Oxford, and Lancaster.
- Allan Chapman
Allan Chapman FRAS (born 30 May, 1946) is a British historian of science. Allan Chapman was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England. His first degree was from the University of Lancaster. Subsequently he undertook a history of science DPhil at Wadham College, Oxford. He is a historian by training and his special interests are astronomy and scientific biography. Chapman has been based at Oxford University for most of his career, as a member of the Faculty of History, …
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw
Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw D.Phil., DBE (b. October 1 1912, Withington, Manchester) is a mathematician and a politician. Born Kathleen Timpson, as a child she loved doing arithmetic problems. Although deaf since age eight, she gained a place at Somerville College Oxford University to study mathematics, despite her teacher's discouragement. She bluffed her way through the interview by guessing the question 'What did you do in the summer holidays?'.
- Margaret Canovan
Margaret Canovan (born 1939) is an English political theorist. Born in Carlisle in 1939, Canovan studied history at Girton College, Cambridge, where she subsequently completed a PhD on Joseph Priestley. She became a professor in the Politics Department at Lancaster University not long after its inception, later moving to Keele University where she remained until her retirement in 2002.
- James Masterton
James Masterton (b. September 2 1973) is a headline columnist for the music website Yahoo! Launch. He writes a weekly column analyzing new entries in the UK Singles Chart. Masterton is a technical producer for TalkSport, having previously worked in information technology at the independent production company Unique Broadcasting and as a presenter at the Bradford ILR station The Pulse.