1980-81      Post-doctoral Research Associate, Oxford University, School of Geography.

1981-98      Loughborough University, Lecturer then Reader in Physical Geography

1998-2018    University of Plymouth, Professor of Physical Geography; Head of School of Geography, 2003-2006.

2018-        University of Plymouth, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography

2018-        Visiting senior research fellow, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford

Fellow of Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)

British Society for Geomorphology

History and Philosophy of Geography Study Group

Quaternary Research Association (Honorary Life Membership)

American Quaternary Association (AMQUA)

British Institute at Ankara

American Geophysical Union

Editor in Chief: Journal of Quaternary Science (Wiley) on behalf of the Quaternary Research Association

Matthew Jones, Ph.D. 2004, "High-resolution records of climate change from lacustrine stable isotopes through the last two millennia in western Turkey’.
Amy Burgess. Ph.D. 2004, "The development of diatom-nutrient palaeolimnological inference models for UK lowland reservoirs".
Rebecca Turner, Ph.D. 2007 ‘Late Quaternary fire histories in the East Mediterranean region’.
Jessie Woodbridge, Ph.D. 2009 'Late-Holocene lake diatom-inferred palaeoclimate from central Turkey'
Zuzanna Stroynowski, Ph.D. 2009 A high-resolution climatic study of the Norwegian and Iberian shelves during the Late Holocene: a diatom perspective' 
Samantha Allcock, Ph.D. 2013 ‘Holocene climate variability and socio-evolutionary trajectories, central Turkey’