- Colin Bell
Colin Bell was the Vice-Chancellor for the University of Bradford between 1998 and 2001 and who was later Vice-Chancellor at the University of Stirling. Bell died suddenly in April 2003 and the University of Bradford now holds an annual memorial lecture in his name discussing widening participation.
- Alan Millar
Alan Millar is the Head of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Millar received his PhD at Cambridge. He researches philosophy of mind and the theory of knowledge.
- David Bebbington
David W. Bebbington (Ph.D. Cambridge) is professor of history at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Dr. Bebbington joined the department of history at Stirling in 1976 and was appointed to a Personal Chair in 1999. His principal research interests are in the history of politics, religion and society in Great Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and in the history of the global evangelical movement.
- Ivana Markova
Ivana Markova (born 1938) is an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Stirling, known for her work on language and the constructs of communication. She was born in Czechoslovakia and studied philosophy and psychology at Charles University in Prague. In 1968 she moved to the United Kingdom. She initially worked as Research Fellow at Industrial Training Research Unit, …
- Simon Frith
Simon Frith is a former rock critic and a sociologist who specializes in popular music culture, and the brother of guitarist Fred Frith and psychologist Chris Frith. He read PPE at Oxford and did a doctorate in Sociology at UC Berkeley. He taught in the Sociology Department at Warwick University and the English Studies Department at Strathclyde University. In 1999 he came to the University of Stirling as Professor of Film and Media.
- Diana Rigg
Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (born 20 July 1938) is an English actress. She is probably best known for her portrayals of Emma Peel in "The Avengers" and Tracy Bond in the 1969 James Bond film "On Her Majesty's Secret Service".
- Maria Hjorth
Maria Hjorth (born 15 October 1973 in Falun) is a Swedish golfer. She attended the University of Stirling in Scotland. She won more than twenty amateur titles including the 1995 European Ladies Amateur Championship. She turned professional in 1996 and played mainly on the Ladies European Tour (LET) that year and in 1997. Since 1998 she has played mainly on the U.S. based LPGA Tour, while continuing to play in Europe several times each year.
- Tommy Sheridan
Tommy Sheridan (born 7 March 1964, in Glasgow) is a Scottish socialist politician and a leading figure in the new Scottish political party Solidarity. He attended the Roman Catholic schools of St Monica's Primary and Lourdes Secondary before entering the University of Stirling, from which he graduated with an honours degree in Economics. Sheridan was active in the Militant tendency faction inside the Labour Party, …
- Richard Oram
Dr Richard Oram F.S.A. (Scot.) is a Scottish historian and freelance author. He is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Stirling and an Honorary Lecturer in History at the University of Aberdeen. He received his undergraduate training at the University of St. Andrews. He did his doctoral research on medieval Galloway, and in 2000 published "The Lordship of Galloway" (Birlinn).
- Norman Longworth
Norman Longworth is an honorary Professor of Lifelong Learning at the University of Stirling in the UK. He is the creator of the 'information ladder', a diagram which describes the stages in human learning.
- Richard Lochhead
Richard Neilson Lochhead (born May 24, 1969) is a Scottish National Party politician, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment and Member of the Scottish Parliament for Moray.
- Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay MBE (born 1961) is a Scottish poet and novelist. She was born in Edinburgh in 1961 to a Scottish mother and a Nigerian father. She was adopted by a white couple and brought up in Bishopbriggs, a suburb of Glasgow. Initially harbouring ambitions to be an actress, she decided to concentrate on writing after Alasdair Gray read her poetry and told her that writing was what she should be doing.
- Bill Butler
Bill Butler (born March 30, 1956, Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and former teacher. He represents Glasgow Anniesland in the Scottish Parliament, elected in the by-election following the death of First Minister Donald Dewar. He is a member of the Justice 2, Standards and Local Government & Transport Committees of the Parliament. A graduate of the University of Stirling and Notre Dame College of Education, …
- Robert Matthew
Sir Robert Hogg Matthew (1906 - 1975) was a Scottish architect and a leading proponent of modernism.
- Peter Murray-Rust
Peter Murray-Rust is a contemporary chemist born in Guildford in 1941. He was educated at Bootham School and Balliol College. After obtaining a D.Phil he became lecturer in chemistry at the (new) University of Stirling and was first warden of Andrew Stewart Hall of Residence. In 1982 he moved to Glaxo Group Research at Greenford to head Molecular Graphics, Computational Chemistry and later protein structure determination.
- Michael Connarty
Michael Connarty (born September 3, 1947) is a Scottish Labour Party politician. He is the Member of Parliament for Linlithgow and Falkirk East. Michael Connarty was born in Coatbridge. He was sent to work at the age of ten. He was educated at the local Roman Catholic High School (St. Patrick's) and then studied at the University of Stirling, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1972, …
- Dario Floreano
Dario Floreano is the professor of the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary robotics, a research field in which robots are evolved using artificial evolution. His more recent work involves several types of robots, such as the wheeled khepera, S-bots, Koala, and e-Puck robots as well as micro-flying robots. He has also initiated the Talking Robots podcast series, …
- Scott Barrie
Scott Barrie, (born March 10, 1962, St. Andrews) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and former social worker. He represented Dunfermline West in the Scottish Parliament from 1999 to 2007, where he was a member of the Communities Committees of the Parliament. Prior to being elected to the Scottish Parliament, Scott was employed by Fife Council in the social work department. He also represented the Dunfermline Central ward on Dunfermline District Council.
- Alan Bissett
Alan Bissett is an author from Falkirk in Scotland. His two novels are "Boyracers" (2001) and "The Incredible Adam Spark" (2005). Both utilize Bissett's trademark understanding of Scottish colloquialism, popular culture and Socialist politics. Bissett also lectured in Creative Writing at Bretton Hall College, now part of the University of Leeds. He currently tutors in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. He became a full-time writer in 2004.
- Gordon Sherry
Gordon Sherry (born Kilmarnock, April 8 1974) is a professional golfer from Scotland and former member of the PGA European Tour. He attained his greatest successes at an early age as an amateur and fledgling professional. While still a chemistry undergraduate at the University of Stirling, he played in the Eisenhower Trophy when the British team finished as runners up in 1994. The following year he finished fourth overall in the Scottish Open, behind only Wayne Riley, …
- Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson (1910-1991) was a renowned Shetland fiddler and teacher. Dr. Tom Anderson was known to many in Shetland as the saviour of Shetland's musical heritage long before he died. Born in 1910 on a croft ("Moorfield") at Eshaness in the north of Mainland, Anderson learned to play the fiddle from his grandfather. Although he made his living as an insurance agent, …
- Fiona Ritchie
Fiona Ritchie (b. 1960) produces "The Thistle & Shamrock" - an hour long Celtic music program that airs on National Public Radio (NPR) every week. Fiona was born and raised in Scotland, where she went to the University of Stirling for her undergraduate education. While in college, she got an opportunity to spend one semester in North Carolina, in the United States through a student exchange program.
- Mary Martin
Mary Martin (born 16 January 1907, Folkestone; died 9 October 1969, London) was a British sculptor best known for her work with her husband Kenneth Martin. Mary Blanford studied at Goldsmiths College, London in 1925–9 and at the Royal College of Art 1929–32 where she met and married Kenneth Martin in 1930. Exhibited at the A.I.A. from 1934, mainly as a still-life and landscape painter, using her maiden name, Mary Balmford.
- Chris Lilley
Chris Lilley (born 1959 in the UK) was educated at Broxburn Academy in West Lothian, Scotland. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Biochemistry at the University of Stirling, Scotland and then worked in Haematology and Blood transfusion at the hospital laboratories of Stirling and Falkirk. He obtained a Masters degree in Computing at the University of York, …
- Gordon Banks
Gordon Raymond Banks (born 14 June 1955) is a British Labour Party politician and is the Member of Parliament for Ochil and South Perthshire. Born in Acomb, Northumberland and was educated at the Lornshill Academy in Alloa, the Glasgow College of Building, and the University of Stirling, he obtained a degree in History and Politics. He was elected at the 2005 general election succeeding Martin O'Neill.
- Derek Lambie
Derek Lambie (born 10 December 1975) is editor of the Scottish Sunday Express. He was educated at the University of Stirling and graduated with a BA Hons in Film & Media Studies in 1997. He worked with a freelance press agency in Stirling before joining the Scottish Daily Express in 2000. In 2002, at the age of 26, he was appointed as Editor of the Scottish Sunday Express newspaper. In May 2000 he was named the BT/Society of Editors Scottish Newcomer of the Year.
- Daniel Kawczynski
Daniel Robert Kawczynski (born January 24, 1972) is the Conservative Party Member for Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham in Shropshire, England. Kawczynski's family came to Britain from Poland in 1940, after Poland's invasion by the German army. He was educated at the University of Stirling (reading business studies with languages) and was President of the University Conservative Association in 1991.
- Davy King
Davy King - British writer, born 1951, Isle of Thanet. King studied with Frank Kermode at University College London, & Norman MacCaig at the University of Stirling. He performed frequently in Edinburgh Fringe & other festivals (inc. Glastonbury, 1983), appearing as 'Kamikaze Bard Little Davy King's Performing Doggerel'. Dubbing himself a 'Purveyor of Videosyncratic Vaudeville Verse', he utilised mime, costumes & props to dramatic effect.
- Neil Davidson Baron Davidson of Glen Clova
Neil Forbes Davidson, Baron Davidson of Glen Clova QC (born 13 September 1950) is a Scottish lawyer. He was educated at the University of Stirling, the University of Bradford and the University of Edinburgh. His private practice is in commercial and administrative law. He was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1979 and was called to the Bar of the Inner Temple in 1990. He was appointed Solicitor General for Scotland on February 24, …
- Stewart Sutherland Baron Sutherland of Houndwood
Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, KT, FRSE, FBA (born 25 February 1941) is a Scottish academic and public servant. Educated at the University of Aberdeen and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he was appointed assistant lecturer in Philosophy at the University College of North Wales, and three years later returned to Scotland as a lecturer at the University of Stirling.
- Dave Leadbetter
David "Dave" Leadbetter (19 November 1934 - 15 March 2006), was a figure in Scottish politics. Born in South Battersea, London, England, Dave embraced Scottish culture enthusiastically when attending the University of Stirling between 1969 and 1972. After taking law at the University of Newcastle, Dave became politically active in the Scottish republican demonstrations at 'Red Stirling', against the Queen's visit there.
- Ronnie Bell
Ronnie Bell was a British chemist who worked in the Physical Chemistry Laboratory at Oxford University, England. R. P. Bell worked in laboratory of the Danish physical chemist Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted from 1928 to 1932. later, he was particularly active in Oxford with his research group between 1945 and 1967. In 1967 he moved from Oxford to become Professor of Chemistry at the newly founded University of Stirling in Scotland. Bell could be called by the hybrid term, …
- Árni Mathiesen
Árni M. Mathiesen is an Icelandic politician. Since September 2005, he has been Minister of Finance in Iceland. From 1999-2005 he was Minister of Fisheries. Mathiesen was first elected MP to the Icelandic Althing for the Independence Party in 1991. Mathiesen was born in Reykjavík on October 2 1958 and is the son of former MP and cabinet minister Matthías Á. Mathiesen.
- Sir Hugh Fraser 2nd Baronet
Sir Hugh Fraser, 2nd Baronet (18 September 1936 - 5 May 1987), formerly 2nd Baron Fraser of Allander, was chairman of the House of Fraser, Harrods, George Outram (company), and Whyte and Mackay. He lived at Mugdock Castle, near Stirling, Scotland. He was the son of Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander, and inherited the Barony of Fraser of Allander on his father's death in 1966, but disclaimed it for life the same year. He has a daughter, Patricia.
- John E. Clarkin
Dr. John E. Clarkin has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin. He has an M.B.A. from the Citadel and a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from the University of Stirling. His research interests include: Entrepreneurship; Small Business Management; Franchising; New Venture Creation; and Technology Commercialization.
- Andrew Shuttleworth
IT and social media enthusiast & business connector in Japan who loves connecting with people.
- Lawrence Ingvarson
Dr Lawrence Ingvarson Principal Research Fellow BSc DipEd UWA, DipEd MA London, PhD Monash FACE Dr Lawrence Ingvarson is a Principal Research Fellow at ACER in the Teaching and Leadership Program. Prior to taking up his present part-time position he was Research Director of the Teaching and Leadership Program at ACER from 2001 to 2006.
- David Blaza
David Blaza 415-947-6929 Managing Director Embedded Systems
- Lei Jing
Lei Jing and her business partner Hong Tao are both broadcast and media professionals and now have their own media business, Electric Vision, here in Scotland. They’ve travelled a well-planned route to get to this point. Both studied a BA degree in Broadcast at the Beijing Broadcasting Institute. On graduation, Lei worked for Tianjin Television Station as a programme editor/producer and Hong worked for Tianjin Cable Television and the Hunan Entertainment Channel.
- Maeve Walls
Maeve Walls Home > About the Bureau > Our Team > Maeve Walls Maeve Walls Maeve Walls took up post in September moving from the post of Head of Neighbourhood Regeneration in the Department for Social Development. There, the emphasis was achieving the social, physical and economic transformation of Northern Ireland’s most disadvantaged areas.