Current Commitments summary

Recent caricature
(See also work in progress site).

GENERAL ACTIVITIES

• Elected President of the Association of Past Students, Cardiff University.
• Visiting Professor, Leicester University, since 2005.
• Awarded NESTA Fellowship 2004-2007.
• Fellow of Cardiff University, and Member of the Court of Governors.
• Fellow of the Institute of Biology and Chairman of the History Network.
• Fellow of the Linnean Society of London and Honorary Surveyor of Scientific Instruments.
• Honorary Member of Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury.
• Contributor to BBC and ITV programmes
• Also The Times, Telegraph and Guardian, etc, Nature, New Scientist, the British Medical Journal; also Encyclopaedia Britannica, and many others.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

• Member of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
• Member of Council, Cambridge Society for the Application of Research.
• Life Member, Member of Council and Financial Board, Friends of Cambridge University Library.
• Life Member and Fellow of the Philosophical Society, Cambridge University.
• Member of the Combination Room, Regent House, Cambridge University.
• Life Member, Cambridge University Society for Cognitive Research.
• Chairman, The Storers' Trust.

UNITED STATES:

• Member of Advisory Board, McCrone Research Institute.
• Advisory Board, National Science Foundation.
• Panel of Internet Science Fair, University of Central Florida.
• Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
• Member, History of Science Society.
• Member, Microscopical Society of America.

FORMERLY:

• Member of Council and Financial Board, Friends of Cambridge University Library.
• Inaugural Royal Literary Fellow at the Open University.
• Editorial consultant to the Guinness World Records.
• Member of Council, and of Public relations Board, Institute of Biology, London.
• Columnist in Boz magazine.
• Member of Council, Linnean Society, London.
• Director of Mensa, Member of the British Mensa Committee.
• International President, European Union of Science Journalists' Associations, Brussels.
• Vice-Chairman of Food and Nutrition, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Health.
• Vice-Chairman and Head of Entertainments, Savage Club, London. Chairman of Scientific and Technical Writers' Committee, Society of Authors, London.
• Chairman and Trustee of the Old Petriburgians' Association.
• Member of the former University College, Cardiff, Court of Governors.
• Foreign Member of the European Academy, Paris.
• Member of Council, National Book League, London.
• Editor, Biology History, and of Science Diary
• Director of National Science Centre Ltd, London.