Current Commitments summary

Recent caricature
(See also work in progress site).

NATIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Fellow honoris causa and Honorary Surveyor of Scientific Instruments of the Linnean Society of London.
• Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Microscopical Society.
• Fellow of Cardiff University and former Member of the University Court.
• Awarded NESTA Fellowship for scientific research.
• Honorary Member of Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury.
• Contributor to BBC and ITV programmes
• Also to The Times, Telegraph and Guardian, etc, Nature, New Scientist, the British Medical Journal; also Encyclopaedia Britannica, and many others.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE

• Honorary life membership of Cambridge Society for the Application of Research
• Life Member and former Member of Council, Friends of Cambridge University Library.
• Life Member and Fellow of the Philosophical Society, Cambridge University.
• Visiting member of the Combination Room, Regent House, Cambridge University.
• Life Member, Cambridge University Society for Cognitive Research.
• Honorary Director of the Eastrea Centre.

UNITED STATES:

• Award of Abbe Medal by New York Microscopical Society.
• Emeritus Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
• 'Critical Focus' columnist for The Microscope journal.
• Host of the annual 'An Evening with Brian' at the Inter/Micro conference, Chicago.

FORMERLY:

• Member of the Advisory Board, National Science Foundation.
• Panel member of the Internet Science Fair, University of Central Florida.
• Dining Member of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University.
• President of the Association of Past Students, Cardiff University.
• Inaugural Royal Literary Fellow at the Open University.
• Visiting Professor at the Beyond Distance Alliance, Leicester University.
• Tutor at Institute of Further Education, Madingley Hall, Cambridge University.
• Member of the Court of Governors at Cardiff University
• Member, American History of Science Society.
• Member, Microscopical Society of America.
• Fellow and Council Member of the Institute of Biology and Chair of History Network.
• Editorial consultant to the Guinness World Records.
• Member of Council, and of Public relations Board and Fellow of the Institute of Biology, London.
• Member of Advisory Board, McCrone Research Instiutute, Chicago, Illinois.
• Columnist in Boz magazine and the Mensa Magazine.
• Member of Council and Zoological Secretary, Linnean Society, London.
• Director of Mensa, Member of the British Mensa Committee.
• International President, European Union of Science Journalists' Associations, Brussels.
• Vice-Chairman of Food and Nutrition, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Health.
• Vice-Chairman and Head of Entertainments, Savage Club, London.
• Chairman of Scientific and Technical Writers' Committee, Society of Authors, London.
• Chairman and Trustee of the Old Petriburgians' Association.
• Member of the former University College, Cardiff, Court of Governors.
• Foreign Member of the European Academy, Paris.
• Member of Council, National Book League, London.
• Editor, Biology History, and of Science Diary
• Director of National Science Centre Ltd, London.