Presidents Letter 2025/2026
My year as your President has flown by and I have enjoyed it. The first thing to say is thank you to the very many people who have contributed to this year. Most of the hard work has been done
My year as your President has flown by and I have enjoyed it. The first thing to say is thank you to the very many people who have contributed to this year. Most of the hard work has been done
Professor Maria Economou is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Glasgow, where she holds a joint post between Information Studies (College of Arts and Humanities) and The Hunterian, the university’s museum and art gallery service. She holds
Biography Darren Monckton obtained a BSc in biochemistry from the University of Bath (1989) and a PhD in human genetics from the University of Leicester (1992). He did postdoctoral research in Baylor College of Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer Center,
Professor Emilie Combet CV Professor Emilie Combet is Professor of Human Nutrition at the University of Glasgow, where she leads a multidisciplinary research team investigating the impact of diet on health and disease. Her work focuses on the nutritional and
Robert qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1974 after obtaining a BSc in Optics and was an Executive Director with Arthur Young now EY Chartered Accountants. In 1991 he became Head of Facilities for United Distillers, now Diageo, and joined
I was the Procurator Fiscal at Lanark for 26 years from 1981 till 2007 and spent a total of 34 years in the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal service. Prior to 1981, I was a Depute Procurator Fiscal at Edinburgh
Kenneth Brophy I am Senior Lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow (where I have taught since 2000) with research specialisms in the British Neolithic, Contemporary Archaeology, and Public Archaeology. I have over 25 years of experience of directing
Bill Daly I am initially from Renfrew, I studied Maths at Glasgow University in the 1960s then worked for IBM for 25 years, the last seven of which in Paris as manager of IBM’s manpower for Europe. I took (very)
David Goldie was educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford. Now retired, he taught for over thirty years at the University of Strathclyde where he was Head of the Department of English and Head of the School of Humanities.
Ian Johnston has written a number of books and appeared on many TV documentaries on a maritime theme many of them to do with the river Clyde. His shipbuilding histories include that of Wm Beardmore & Co at Dalmuir, John