I produce web-based software and web sites for local businesses and non-profit-making groups, coding in C# / ASP.net, XML, SQL and, of course, HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Related services include copy-writing, production of graphics and logos, Flash slide shows, photography, search-engine optimization and integration with online payment services.

I also compile operating manuals and training guides for web-site administrators.

Developed secure control protocols for intrinsically hazardous environments in material-processing plant.

Implemented statistical process control (SPC) techniques to monitor product quality.

Produced related technical manuals and other documentation.

Producing PC-based test and measurement software for use in manufacturing and quality control, primarily for the aircraft and automobile industries.

I also authored technical manuals and user guides to accompany each system.

I designed and produced firmware and PC-based support software for the company's networked data-acquisition modules. My dedicated LVDT linearisation software helped the company to offer extremely high-precision automated measurement solutions.

Designed bespoke data-acquisition and control applications software, with responsibility for drafting and approving technical specifications.

Compiled manuals and user guides for bespoke systems as well as for off-the-shelf system components.

Advised members of the University's Applied Nuclear Science group on aspects of their research activities (e.g. fast-neutron spectral analysis, dosimetry, radon-gas monitoring and radiation damage studies of crystalline media), and assisted in composing manuscripts and proof reading prior to publication of reviewed papers.

Designed and produced PC-based instrumentation for automated TL spectrometry as well as dedicated control and data-analysis software.

Member since 1993

Elected to the Fellowship in October 2000.

The IAP Fellowship, the Institution's most senior grade, is "only available to outstanding professionals by specific invitation of the Council".

Awarded the University's 1984 Fremlin Prize for research into radiographic imaging techniques applied to conservation of decorative architectural plasterwork.

My PhD thesis was concerned with evaluating the thermal stability of heavy-ion (cosmic-ray and fission) tracks in natural minerals. This information assists geologists and space scientists in interpreting the thermal history of terrestrial, lunar and meteoritic rocks.

I also undertook extra-curricular research into an innovative energy-independent dosimetry technique for assessing the exposure of radiation workers to high-energy neutrons.

Selected results of both areas of my research were published in peer-reviewed papers in the journals Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements, and Radiation Protection Dosimetry.

Placed top of my year in the final written examinations.

Project work carried out as part of this course, together with extra-curricular research, formed the basis of an article published in Studies in Conservation (the journal of The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) in 1986.

A three-year degree course similar in structure to conventional undergraduate Physics courses, but with the addition of extra modules (on cosmology, solar physics and stellar physics etc.) and proportionately higher entry standards.

Local history, particularly the pre-conquest landscape and settlement of the Stourbridge area. I have published papers on related topics in both academic journals and general-interest magazines, as well as numerous articles which are available online.

Recent research includes analyses of the boundary perambulations of the 951x959 royal charter for Swinford and the 1300 Great perambulation of the Norman forest of Kinver, and a paper reappraising the Old English place-name element ofer. The latter was published in 2020 in the Journal of the English Place-Name Society after receiving very positive peer-reviews; comments included “This is an excellent study, meticulous, well researched, knowledgeable and widely referenced.”

I am a member of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, The English Place-Name Society, The Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, and The Black Country Society.

Since 2019, I have assisted the campaigns to protect the local Green Belt from development, designing artwork for leaflets, posters etc. and producing a variety of historical and archaeological reports to inform residents' responses to public consultations.

Furniture making, wood-craft and carpentry.

Property renovation, undertaking many aspects of building work (e.g. brick/block-laying, floor laying, tiling, plumbing and electrical) as well as garden landscaping and design and construction of bespoke outbuildings.

I maintain, on behalf of its owner, a web site for the ex-pupils and staff of the (now closed) Longlands School, Stourbridge. The site includes several hundred old photographs and historical information as well as a purpose-designed forum and contact directory to help old classmates keep in touch.

Watercolour painting and line drawing: mainly landscapes.

Close-up and landscape photography.

Held since 1980.

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