Public Profile

Awards and qualifications

• Fellow, Royal Society of Biology 2020
• Fellow, Royal Statistical Society 2009
• Raymond Bourgine Medal 1996
• Silver Medal of the City of Paris 1996
• Chartered Physicist 1988
• DPhil (Oxon), Astrophysics 1976
• Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society 1975
• Member, Institute of Physics 1972
• MSc (Sussex), Astronomy 1971
• BSc (Wales), Joint Hons. Physics, Mathematics and Electronics m.c.l. 1970

Commissions and memberships (with interests asterisked); recent in bold

• Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Amnesty International *
• Anti-Platelet Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Anti-Thrombotic Trialists' Collaboration (Secretariat)
• Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) (Executive Committee)
• Aromatase Inhibitor Overview Group (Writing Committee)
• Association for Consumer Research *
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
• ATLAS (Adjuvant Tamoxifen – Longer Against Shorter)
• Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust *
• Brasenose Society *
• British and International Sailors' Society *
• British Pugwash Group *
• British Vintage Wireless Society *
• Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament *
• Cartwheel Club *
• Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Chinese Acute Stroke Trial Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' Collaboration (Secretariat)
• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Trialists' Collaborative Project (Secretariat)
• Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Review Group
• Cochrane Eyes and Vision Group
• Cochrane Global Ageing Group (Scottish Steering Group)
• Cochrane Movement Disorders Group
• Cochrane Stroke Group
• Collaboration of Aphasia Trialists (CATS)
• Collaborative Group on Hormonal Factors in Breast Cancer (Secretariat)
• Colorectal Cancer Collaboration (Secretariat)
• Commonhealth Projects 7 and 8
• Companies House User Panel
• Developer Users' Group
• Digital Television Group
• Distributed Array Processor Group
• Early Breast Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Efficacy and feasibility of pain management and patient education for physical activity in intermittent claudication (PrEPAID)
• European Astronomical Society (Lifetime Founding Member)
• European Carotid Surgery Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• European Public Health Association (EUPHA)
• Expert Panel for the Consensus Development Conference (CDC) for Community Based Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation in Scotland
• Fibrinolytic Therapy Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Fox Users' Group
• Glasgow Commonwealth Games Research Partnership
• Glasgow Social Statistics Study Group
• Greenpeace *
• Headbone Hunters' Club *
• HealthQWest
• Hellfire Club *
• Institute of Physics (Chartered Physicist)
• International Astronomical Union
• International Hodgkin's Disease Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• International Journal of Social Business (IJSB) Editorial Board
• International Society for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour
• King's Shropshire Light Infantry (CCF KSLI Private 1962-1966)
• Liver Infusion Meta-Analysis Group (Secretariat)
• Medical Research Council Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme College of Experts
• Musicians' Union *
• Myeloma Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• National Health Service Contact, Help, Advice and Information Network (CHAIN)
• National Health Service National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines Programme
• National Health Service Physical Activity and Health Alliance (PAHA)
• National Institute for Health Research Health Technology Assessment Programme (HTA, Referees' Panel)
• Network of Systematic Reviewers Ireland and Scotland (NetSIS)
• New Europeans *
• Oxford Galaxy Group (Founding Member)
• Oxford Society *
• Oxford Union Society (Lifetime Member) *
• The Oxford University Society *
• Pelvic floor muscle training for secondary prevention of pelvic organ prolapse (PREVPROL) (Steering Committee)
• Pelvic organ prolapse physiotherapy trial (POPPY)
• Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS)
• Prostate Cancer Trialists' Collaborative Group (Secretariat)
• Pyromaniacs Anonymous *
• Radical Statistics Group
• Random Acts of Kindness Club *
• Red Dragon Society *
• Rehabilitation and recovery of people with aphasia after stroke (RELEASE)
• Residential Radon and Lung Cancer Collaborative Analysis Group (Secretariat)
• Royal Astronomical Society (Fellow)
• Royal College of Nursing Dynamic Quality Improvement Programme
• Royal Photographic Society (Lifetime Member)
• Royal Society of Biology (Fellow)
• Royal Statistical Society (Fellow)
• The Salopian Club *
• Save British Science *
• Save the Children Scotland Panel *
• Science and Engineering Research Council Measuring Machines Advisory Group
• ScotHub
• Scottish Centre of Evidence Based Care of Older People: A Collaborating Centre of the Joanna Briggs Institute
• Scottish Dental Needs Assessment Programme (SDNAP) Older Adults Working Group
• Scottish Infection Research Network (SIRN)
• Scottish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (SaLSA)
• Scottish Policy Innovation Forum
• Scottish Society for Psychical Research (Lifetime and Posthumous Member) *
• Scottish Wildlife Trust *
• Sedentary Behaviours International Taxonomy Group (SIT)
• Society for Social Medicine and Population Health
• Starlink 2-D Special Interest Group
• Statisticians for Society
• TransOx
• Trials for Aphasia Panel (TAP)
• United Kingdom Transient Ischaemic Attack Study Group (Secretariat)
• University of Oxford (Congregation, Convocation)
• University of Sussex Society *
• Ventura Publisher Users' Group U.K.
• World Wildlife Fund *
• Wulf the Briton Club (but only until the issue where he was inexplicably frightened by wolves!) *
• 405 Line Society *

Curriculum Vitae

• Professional
• 2020 ff. Full-time carer – current
• 2013 – 2020 Glasgow Caledonian University (Professor of Statistics in Medicine and Society, tenured)
• 2011 ff. University of Oxford (Emeritus Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine) – current
• 2009 – 2013 Glasgow Caledonian University (Reader in Statistics)
• 2008 – 2009 Glasgow Caledonian University (Senior Research Fellow in Medical Statistics)
• 2000 – 2011 University of Oxford (Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine)
• 1999 – 2000 University of Oxford (Software Consultant)
• 1999 Computer Sciences Corporation, Nottingham (Software Consultant)
• 1988 ff. Wolfbane Cybernetic Ltd, Oxford (founder and Scientific Director) – current
• 1987 – 1988 Oxford Starlink Site Manager (founder)
• 1985 – 1999 University of Oxford (progressing to Research Fellow in Clinical Medicine)
• 1984 – 1988 University of Oxford (Demonstrator in Astrophysics)
• 1983 – 1984 University of Durham (Computer Officer in Physics)
• 1982 – 1983 University of Oxford (Hulme Research Officer in Astrophysics)
• 1976 – 1982 University of Oxford (S.R.C. / S.E.R.C. Research Assistant in Astrophysics)
• 1971 – 1973 University College London (Demonstrator in Physics and Astronomy)
• 1970 G.E.C. / A.E.I. / E.E. Hirst Research Centre, Wembley (Research Officer)
• 1966 – 1977 TEX Electronics, York (founder and Managing Director)

 
• Educational
• 1973 – 1976 Brasenose College, Oxford (Hulme Scholar, DPhil Astrophysics)
• 1970 – 1971 University of Sussex (MSc Astronomy)
• 1967 – 1970 University College of North Wales, Bangor (BSc Physics, Mathematics and Electronics Joint Hons. m.c.l.)
• 1966 – 1967 York College of Further Education (Economics, Pure and Applied Mathematics)
• 1962 – 1966 Shrewsbury School (Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics)

Leisure interests and pastimes

Publications

P.S. ;-)

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