• Postgraduate Research Coordinator (SoGEES) (2019 - present)
• Head of the Centre of Research in Earth Sciences (2012–2017)
• Visiting Scholar, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. February 2011–November 2011
• Professor of Earth Sciences, Plymouth University, April 2014–present
• Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader in Environmental Sedimentology, Plymouth University, February 1998–2014
• Post Doctoral Research Fellow, School of Geosciences, Queen's University of Belfast, UK. October 1994–January 1998
• Assistant in Geophysical Data Centre, British Petroleum, London, UK. February 1989–September 1989

Member of the Geological Society of America Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)

• Member of the Berriasian Working Group of the International Subcommission on Cretaceous Stratigraphy
• Patron of the Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre 
• Deputy Director NERC ARIES DTP 
• Committee member of the NERC Ion Micro-Probe Steering Group
• Proceedings of the Geologists Association Associate editor
• NERC Peer Review College Member (2005–2008)
• Secretary of the British Sedimentological Research Group (1998–2002)

Matthew Jones 2004 PhD "Holocene Palaeolimnology of Western Anatolian Lake Basins" Jodie Fisher 2006 PhD "Palaeoenvironmental change surrounding the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary" Elizabeth Nunn 2007 PhD "Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Climates of Northern High Latitudes" Timothy Kearsey 2009 PhD "Multi-proxy palaeoclimate reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction event" Melanie Bugler 2011 PhD "An investigation into use of the freshwater gastropod Viviparus as a recorder of past climatic change" Will Foster 2015 PhD "Quantitative palaeoecology of the late Permian mass extinction and subsequent recovery"Mohammed Chaanda. 2016 PhD "Cenozoic Terrestrial palaeoenvironmental change: an investigation of the of the Bovey and Petrockstowe Basin, south west UK" Madeleine Vickers 2017 PhD "Stratigraphic and geochemical expression of Early Cretaceous environmental change in Arctic Svalbard" Wycliff Tupiti 2021 PhD "Rare metal resources in polymetallic nodules from the Pacific Ocean"

My teaching interests are focussed on a number of key areas of student learning at the University of Plymouth: (i) Sedimentology and sedimentary geochemistry (ii) Stratigraphy and environmental change (iii) Isotope geochemistry and palaeoclimates (iv) Fieldwork Skills My teaching is a mix of taught and practical classes and fieldwork with a strong emphasis on linking my teaching to my research.