following a stroke I was forced into medical retirement whereafter lived in the South of France whilst maintaining an honorific unpaid capacity in teaching and research at University of Gloucestershire. this a wasachieved by a variety of online contributions either direct to colleagues or via my website / www.geoclimatica.com or via social interactions facilties such as facebook and youtube etc. additionaly l i set up a comunity study group examining flood hisries odf La Dordogne I was able to undertake direct student dissertation supervision via email as well as to join in Field trips such as the one I devised to the SwissAlps. and act in advisor capacity to french MSc [Universuy Blaise Pascal ] in agri enviromental climate studies

deputy Chair of DL During (1.) major constitutional overhaul;(2.) evolution of reasonable adjustment Passports;(2.) referring Labour Party to ECHR in relation to institutional ableism and (3 .) senior internal Disciplinary cases

Recently invited to join as Associate-Editor the International editorial panel of the International HETL-Review { a pedagogical journal in Higher Education Sector }

Geoclimatica is a small privately operated {not for profit} climate change research station collecting phenological and meteorological data in SW France and observing Solar meteorology { CMEs & sunspots etc} its main objective is to promote awareness of climate change in rural communities in SW France [ NB web site is not yet fully operational }

following a stroke I was forced into medical retirement wherewafter I am livining in the South of France whilst maintaining an honorific unpaid capcity in teaching and research at University of Gloucestershire

awarded by open nomination & competition this national institute-based award award was designed to award recognition of research promise/ potential in staff working in the ' new University Sector'

whilst holding a HEFCE national "promising researcher" fellowship I was briefly a 'visiting research fellow' specialising in tephrochronology & glass geochemical analysis

External examiner confirming the degrees of Geography &Physical Geography at the School of Applied Sciences University of Glamorgan [Pontypridd, S Wales.]

I was Regionally-nominated { English-Midlands] environmental public representative acting as Agency-independent advisor leading to chairing the independent-review for the Deputy Prime-minister[John Prescott] of the EA's and HSE's responses to & prior to the Sandhurst chemical explosion

for the latter 1990s - 2000s I was a senior lecturer at University of Gloucestershire where I ran numerous courses on climate change whilst acting as advisor to Lower severn Area of the UK Environment Agency and devising and creating the Cheltenham Climate Change Forum which initiated the SWClimate Change Impacts Partnership SWCCIP with the UKCIP I was also leader of The International Inter-laboratory Comparability Program in the electron microprobe analysis of volocanic and archaeologicalglasses {emphasising analysis of tephras shards for tephrochronology} I was sedimentologist on 2 Ocean Drilling Programs { Iceland Plateau, Japan Arc} in the early 1990s

Ship-based geologist aboard RV JOIDES Resolution coring sea floor between Iceland and Greenland with principal role being integration of sedimentology with Physical Properties logs and with additional interest in the characterisation of volcanic ash [tephra] horizons

joint PhD collaboration working with University of Edinburgh, supervised by the late Dr Nigel G. T. Fanin {BGS} and the Late Dr Peter G. Hill { Edinburgh University} and Prof. Roy { Edinburgh University}