Australian Awards for University Teaching: ALTC Citation for outstanding contribution to student learning, 2010 (for developing engaging and effective resources to support student learning across the sciences)

B.Sc. (Hons) Microbiology, University of Liverpool 1977;

Ph.D. University of Liverpool 1979 (Osmoregulation in red algae);

D.Sc. University of Dundee 1990 (halotolerance and water relations of micro-organisms).

Higher Education Association (fellow)

Institute of Biomedical Science (fellow)

World Health Organisation International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment & Safe Storage (member)

Scholarship of learning, including:

• Practical skills teaching (including the ‘Practical Skills' series of science textbooks for Pearson Education).
• Work-related learning.

Research in environmental microbiology, broadly within two main areas:

• Small-scale (point-of-use) water treatment processes, including solar disinfection and safe storage of drinking water.
• Responses of micro-organisms to environmental stress, especially light & osmotic stress