B.Sc Honours Geology, Durham University, UK.

Diploma in Micropalaeontology (M.Sc course), University College London.

Doctorate: 'Foraminifera and algae from the Yoredale Series (Visean-Namurian) of Northern England'. University College London.

Fellow of the Geological Society of London.

Member of Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain

Certified Petroleum Geologist No 3754, American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Diploma, Senior Management Course, Manchester Business School.

Invited lecturer at University College London, Imperial College London, Durham University, University College Dublin, Swansea University, and Glasgow University.

Vice President of Section C (Geology) of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Glasgow.

External examiner, National Hydrocarbon Institute, Boumerdes, Algeria.