Ranulph Glanville studied architecture at the AA (where he was mainly  interested in electronic performance music), followed by cybernetics  (his PhD was examined by Heinz von Foerster, his supervisor was  Gordon Pask) and then human learning (PhD examined by Gerard de  Zeeuw, supervisor Laurie Thomas). He has published extensively in all  three fields. He has taught in Universities around the world.  Although he took early retirement, he is a professor and senior  visiting research fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of  Technology University, Melbourne, Australia, where he visits twice a  year had has a major responsibility in the development of  postgraduate studies. He is also a regular visitor at several other  Australian universities (and others worldwide). He is on the  editorial board of several journals and the committee of several  conferences. He has published more than 250 papers. He researches the  fundamental position of cybernetics and the implications of this,  relating this to the activity of design and how we might do research  within design. His hobby is whichever of his interests he is not currently actually doing.


Some links:
www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/people/glanville
www.univie.ac.at/constructivism/ people/glanville/cv.html
www.soziale-systeme.ch/pdf/glanville.pdf 
http://nelly.dmu.ac.uk/4dd/drs9.html
www.cybsoc.org/glanvillebio.htm
www.architectuur.sintlucas.wenk.be/nl/conferentie/ranulph_granville.pdf
home.snafu.de/jonasw/PARADOXGlanvilleE.html