The 50th Anniversary provides an opportunity to look back and reflect over the past 50 years, Professor Robert Dyson, now an Emeritus Professor at the University has written his memoirs from his time working at the University of Warwick between 1970 and 1989. His memoirs give an insight into the development of the University and Warwick Business School in the 70's and 80's.

Prof Robert Dyson, initially a research mathematician and senior systems technologist at Pilkington Plc (1964-70), joined the University of Warwick, School of Industrial and Business Studies in 1970 as a lecturer. These memoirs chart his personal experiences and the development of the University over the next two decades, following a period of turbulence and student protest in the late 1960s, through a programme of renewal and development that resulted in Warwick Business School (WBS) becoming one of the leading business schools of Europe.

Prof Dyson had a crucial role in this transformation as Chairman of WBS 1978-81 and later as a member of the senior management team that implemented the changes in the mid and late 1980's. He was later appointed Dean of WBS (1998-2000) and now holds the position of Emeritus Professor in the Operational Research & Management Sciences Group.

You can read the memoirs here.

You can also hear Professor Robert Dyson's interview for the 'Voices of the University' project here.