EDUCATION
1987-90 University of Warwick MBA (Master of Business Administration)
1974-77 University of Southampton PhD (cell biology)
1971-74 University of Southampton BSc Hons (First Class) Zoology
EMPLOYMENT
Current employment:
Director, SPARC Europe www.sparceurope.org February 2012-
Past employment:
1985-96: Senior Managing Editor, Pergamon Press/Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK
1981-85: Lecturer, Zoology Department, University of Leicester, UK
1978-81: Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Fellow, Anatomy Department, St.George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
1978: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cancer Research Campaign Laboratories, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, UK
PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Fellow of the Society of Biology (UK), Chartered Biologist (C.Biol., FSB)
PROFESSIONAL PART-TIME POSTS
• Tutor, Warwick Business School (University of Warwick)
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION-RELATED ACTIVITIES:
- Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship (universities and research institutes forum on scholarly communication)
- Editor, OASIS (Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook) A comprehensive web resource on Open Access
- Chair, BOAI-10 (Budapest Open Access Initiative Tenth Anniversary meeting, Budapest, February 2012)
- Project Board member, Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) (IDRC-funded)
- Project Board member, MEDOANET project (EU-funded)
- Advisory Board member, Databib project
- Editorial Board member, Open Access Directory: http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Main_Page
- Member, eIFL Open Access Advisory Committee: http://www.eifl.net/cps/sections/services/eifl-oa
Past:
- Advisory Board member, DRIVER Confederation (EU-funded): http://www.driver-repository.eu/
- Project Board member, ERIS Project (Enhancing Repository Infrastructure in Scotland) 2009-11
- Programme Committee, COMMUNIA 2010 Conference, Torino, italy, 28-30 June 2010: University and cyberspace - Redefining roles, envisioning the future, shaping a shared commons
- Organising and Programme Committee, 3rd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine, 2010
- Organising and Programme Committee, SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting, Baltimore, November 2008
- Organising and Programme Committee, 2nd European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine, Oslo, September 2008
- Organising Committee, Open Repositories Conference, Glasgow, October 2006
- Steering Group member, SPECTRa-T Project (JISC-funded; ended 2008)
OTHER VOLUNTARY OR HONORARY POSTS HELD
Current:
• Visiting Researcher, School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton
• Associate Fellow, Marketing and Strategic Management Group, Warwick Business School
• Trustee, Devon County Association for the Blind
Past:
• Elected member of Governing Board of Euroscience (European Association for the Promotion of Science & Technology)
• Editor, The Euroscientist
• Consultant and tutor, Open University Business School, Milton Keynes
• Member of the Board of Governors, Brooksby Melton (FE) College, Melton Mowbray
• Committee member and national workshops organiser, Society of Scribes & Illuminators, London
• Founder and Secretary, Leicestershire Smallholders’ Association
• Founder and Director, British Pony Centre
• Trustee, Exmoor Pony Heritage Association
• Secretary, Devon Wildlife Trust, Exeter Local Group
