Albert Hanson (academic)

After two years at the Coopers Hill Emergency Training College, in 1948 he was appointed a Lecturer in Public Administration at the University of Leeds. It was largely through his efforts that politics and public administration became established topics of study at the university. He was promoted to Reader in 1956 and then became Leeds University's first Professor of Politics in 1963, a post he was to hold until his death in 1971.

Hanson's particular interests were public administration and nationalized industries. He became known for his work in these fields in developing countries, particularly India and in Africa, leading to many invitations to teach and lecture abroad. His work in this field included Public Enterprise and Economic Development and The Process of Planning in India. Other areas of study included parliamentary reform and the teaching of political science in universities in Britain.^[1]

Hanson died in 1971, aged 58.