Having read maths at Birmingham University in the 1950s, Haley was a research assistant in the Department of Engineering Production at the University 1953-7. He was part of the National Coal Board's Operational Research Group 1957-9. From 1959, he has taught at Birmingham University, becoming the country's first formal lecturer in operational research. In 1968, he became Professor of Operational Research, and is currently based at the School of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham. He became an associate member of the Operational Research Society (ORS) in 1954; helping to found the Midlands Operational Research Group in 1959. He was the editor of International Abstracts in Operations Research in 1960, serving on the ORS Publications Committee 1960-80. He has also spent four years on the ORS Council and been editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society .
From the guide to the Papers of Professor K. Brian Haley relating to, Operational Research Quarterly, 1961-1977, (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick)
