Lincoln Allison (born 5 October 1946[1] in Hartlepool) is an English academic and essayist.

Life and career

Allison grew up in Colne, Lancashire, and was educated at Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, and at University and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford. He was a research scholar at Stanford University before taking up a position at the University of Warwick, where he taught from 1969 to 2004.[2] Retired from full-time teaching, he is now Emeritus Reader in Politics at the University of Warwick and Visiting Professor in the politics of sport at the University of Brighton.[3]

Commenting in 2023 on new rules which aim to restrict relationships between university staff and students, Allison said that as a young lecturer he "played sport with students, got drunk with students and made love with students. All of this seemed entirely normal on the campus of a new university in the late 1960s and early 1970s."[4]

He is most noted for his work on the politics of sport, for which he was awarded a D.Litt in 2003,[5] but he has also produced books on a number of other topics and been a prolific writer for magazines and newspapers since the 1970s.

He married Ann McDonnell in 1975; they have three sons.

Books

  • Environmental Planning: A Political and Philosophical Analysis 1975
  • Condition of England: Essays and Impressions 1981
  • Right Principles: A Conservative Philosophy of Politics 1984
  • The Politics of Sport (edited) 1986
  • A Journey Quite Different: Collected Walks 1987
  • The Utilitarian Response: Essays on the Contemporary Viability of Utilitarian Political Philosophy (edited) 1990
  • Ecology and Utility: The Philosophical Dilemmas of Planetary Management 1991
  • The Changing Politics of Sport (edited) 1993
  • Taking Sport Seriously (edited) 1999
  • Amateurism in Sport: An Analysis and a Defence 2000
  • The Global Politics of Sport: The Role of Global Institutions in Sport 2005
  • The Disrespect Agenda: Or How the Wrong Kind of Niceness Is Making Us Weak and Unhappy 2008
  • My Father's Bookcase: A Version of the History of Ideas 2011
  • Understanding International Sport Organisations: Principles, Power and Possibilities (with Alan Tomlinson) 2017

References

  1. ↑ "Good Old New Society". lincolnallison.com. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Dr Lincoln Allison". Pembroke College. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "My Father's Bookcase by Lincoln Allison". goodreads. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Should universities ban staff-student relationships?". Times Higher Education. 3 August 2023. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  5. ↑ "Dr Lincoln Allison Awarded Higher Doctorate". University of Warwick. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
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