Education
1950-54 Holy Trinity Primary School, Ripon, Yorkshire
1954-58 Cressbrook School, Kirkby Lonsdale, Yorkshire
1958-63 Exhibitioner & Music Scholar, Sedbergh School
1966       B.A. Christ's College Cambridge. Natural Sciences, Class 1.
1969       Ph.D. Darwin College, Cambridge in Experimental Psychology. Thesis: "Auditory Perception and Cerebral Dominance"

Main Employment
1969-71   Harkness Fellowship, Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT.
1971         SRC Research Fellow, Montreal Neurological Institute.
1971-78    Lecturer in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex.
1978-85    Reader in Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex.
1982-85 Chairman of the Experimental Psychology Subject Group
1985-2009  Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex.
1988-91 Chairman of the Experimental Psychology Subject Group
1992-96 Dean of the School of Biological Sciences
2009- Emeritus Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex.
Temporary Appointments
1974-75 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut & Research Associate, Haskins Laboratories
1978 Visiting Lecturer, Dept.Phonetics, Univ.Copenhagen.
1978-9 Consultant in Speech Recognition, EMI, Haynes, Middx.
1982 Research Associate, Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven.

Distinctions & Awards
1998 Elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America

Professional Appointments (Research)
1983-86 SERC Sub-Committee on Animal Sciences and Psychology
1984 SERC Post-doctoral Fellowships Committee
1985-88 SERC Image Interpretation Panel
1987-91 MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board Grants Committee
1992 Ext Research Assessor: Dept of Communication & Neuroscience, Keele Univ.
1993-96 UCL Board of Advisors, Standing Panel of Experts in Psychology
1993-98 MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board
1995-96 EPSRC Human Factors Advisory Panel
1996 Ext Research Assessor: Dept of Communication & Neuroscience, Keele Univ.
1996-97 Chair of MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Board Grants Committee
1997-98 MRC Cross-Board Group
1997-98 MRC Transitional Panel
1997-99 EPSRC Information Technology - Computing College
1999 Chairman MRC/EPSRC/BBSRC Workshop on Neuroinformatics
2002 Advisory Board: Hanse Workshops on Hearing, Hanse Institute, Delmenhorst.
2003 Invited speaker 6th Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz
2003 Keynote Lecture: NSF Workshop "Perspectives on Speech Separation" Montreal
2003 Visiting Fellow: Max Plank Institute of Cognitive Science, Leipzig
2003-05 EPSRC Peer Review College
2004 EPSRC Panel for "Culture & Creativity"
2004 Organiser: Hanse Institute International Conference on "Auditory Scene Analysis and Speech Perception by Human and Machine"
2005 "Hot topics" plenary speaker: 149th Meeting of Acoustical Society of America, Vancouver, May 2005.
2005 Invited interviewer for Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship Panel
2005 RAE external adviser: Psychology Department, York University