Career background
Approx 1976: Proud winner of Tom Finney Shield as member of Manor School Football Team, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside.
1983 - 1986 BSc Microbiology (Sp Hons) University of Sheffield
1986-1989 PhD University of Sheffield. Topic 'Biosorption of particulates and metal ions by fungal mycelium'
1989-1995 - Lecturer in Industrial Mycology and Environmental Microbiology, University College Dublin, Ireland
1995-2000 - Lecturer in Soil Microbiology, Adelaide University, Australia
June 1999-Dec 1999- Visiting Research Associate, University of Liverpool (while on study leave from University of Adelaide)
2000-present - Lecturer in Land Remediation, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.