Lincoln Allison Explained

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

External links

• Personal website

Notes and References

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