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A list of staff at the University of Hull Geology Department until its closure and re-opening and closure.
compiled by Mike Horne.
The Department was formed in 1948 as a sub-department of the Department of Geography of University College Hull, which taught University of London degrees. The University got its charter in 1954 and could then award its own degrees. In 1963 geology was upgraded to the status of being a proper Department in its own right and the first professor was appointed. As part of a national rationalisation of geology in universities the Department closed in 1988. Some lecturers were retained on a part-time basis to teach out the undergraduate degrees until 1990.
The Department re-opened in 2014 and the University offered a geology degree until 2021 when the same degree was renamed Earth Sciences. When that degree stopped in 2023 the geologists taught units within an Evnironmental Science degree.
(A work in Progress)
Ian Alexander - micropalaeontology preparation 1970 and 1980s
Dr Norman Angus - igneous petrology 1958 to the 1990 closure when he retired.
Mark Anderson - rock preparation and sectioning 1980s to 2024
Tony Benfield - late 1980s
Dr Jim Best - sedimentologist 1983 until closure when he transferred to Leeds University.
Prof Dave Bond - onwards
Geoffrey Bond - director of the sub-Department 1948 - 1949.
Cecilia Brasier (nee Clements) - curator 1972-1979.
Dr Martin Brasier - micropalaeontology, palaeoecology and Pre Cambrian 1975 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Oxford University.
Dr Anna Bird - 2014 onwards.
Harold Chamberlain - workshop technician 1960s until his retirement.
Bernard Conway - technician 1948.
Mr George de Boer - Quaternary scientist and geographer 1946 to 1983.
Prof O Bulman - Head of Department 1960s.
Dr Bryony Caswell - 2018 to present.
Dr Eddie Dempsey - structural geologist 2017 to present
Prof Desmond Donavon - Head of Department 1963-1966.
Prof Ansel Dunham - industrial mineralogist 1978 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Leicester University.
Dr Arthur Fraser - mineralogist 1967 until closure in 1990.
Prof Lynne Frostick - sedimentology 1999 onwards, now honorary.
John Garner - photographer
Dr Huw Griffiths - Quaternary micropalaeontologist 1995 to 2002 (deceased).
Pat (Jock) Henderson - petrology and mineralogy 1950 -1957.
Mike Holiday - chief technician 1957 until his retirement.
Billy Holmes - technician 1950s.
Professor Michael House - stratigrapher and Head Of Department 1967 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Southampton University
Mollie Lawson - Departmental Secretary.
Paul McSherry - draughtsman and later chief technician 1970s until his retirement.
Richard (Dick) Middleton - geochemist
Prof John Neale - palaeontology and micropalaeontology 1949 until closure in 1990 when he retired
Prof Dan Parsons - sedimentologist 2011 to 2022.
Dr Martyn Pedley - carbonate sedimentologist 1984 onwards, now honorary.
Dr Lewis Penny - Quaternary scientist 1949 to 1980
Mark (Marek) Piasecki - metamorphic geology 1957 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Keele University.
Andy Radford - rock preparation and sectioning 1980s .
Dr Mike Rogerson - sedimentologist ?2006 to 2020.
Dr Peter Scott - economic geology and industrial mineralogy 1972 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Leicester University and later Exeter University
Tony Sinclair - scanning electron microscope 1970s onwards until his retirement.
Dr Derek Siveter - curator 1979 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Oxford University.
Dr Steve Temperley - geophysics and structural geology 1984 until closure in 1990 when he transferred to Leicester University.
Dr Brian Waugh - sedimentologist 1966 until 1983.
Dr Mike Widowson - volcanologist 2015 until 2024.
Fred Wilkinson - electron microprobe 1980s
Dr Rebecca Williams - metamorphic petrology 2013 to present
Dr Paul Young - Geophysics 1980 - 1984
Sources -
my memories
Attendance list for the Dinner in Honour of the Retirement of Dr L F Penny 5th July 1980
A Stratigraphy of the Department by Prof Neale, Harker Journal 1989.
A Stratigraphy of the Department, part 2 by John Neale. Journal of the Harker Geological Society, volume 14, number 1, Spring 1990
Harkerama No. 2. March 1983
LinkedIn online personal biographies
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