Professional Activities

• Executive Editor, Palaeontologia Electronica (from 2008)
• Manuscript Reviews Editor, Palaeontologia Electronica (1997-2008). With a small group of like-minded colleagues established this journal de novo, based on a new model of completely free access internet publication.
• Natural Environment Research Council Peer Review College, full member of (2003-2007)
• External Examiner: PhD jury, Lille, 2006. MPhil Thesis, Durham, 2001
• Palaeontological Association (1994-2005, 2008-2011): Vice-President 2003-2005; Publicity Officer, then Internet Officer 1996-2003, currently Publicity Officer.
  
• The Micropalaeontological Society (1998-2001): Council member and Conodont Group Chair.
• Pander Society (since 1996): I established and run the Pander Society website and the con-nexus listerver, facilitating international communication among conodont researchers; also involved with editing Annual Newsletter.
• Invited participant in British Council International Networking of Young Scientists (INYS) workshop on 'Biodiversity: perspectives from deep time' (March 2006, Stockholm)
• Member, Scientific Board of European Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology

Conference organization

• SVP Annual Meeting 2009, Bristol: Host committee member.
• Sticklebacks 2009, Leicester: Organising committee.
  
• 8th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Paris, 2007: Co-organiser symposia 'Meaning and measurement of vertebrate complexity' and 'Dental microwear and the evolving relationship between form and function'
• First International Conodont Symposium, ICOS 2006, Leicester 2006: Organiser.
• North American Paleontological Convention, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2005: Organiser, symposium on Early Vertebrate Evolution.
• Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy (SVPCA), Leicester, 2004: Co-organiser.
• 7th International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Boca Raton, Florida, 2004: Co-organiser symposium on 'Stem groups and the assembly of vertebrate bodyplans'.
• Annual Meeting of The Palaeontological Association, Leicester 2003: Organiser.
• ECOS VIII (Eighth International Conodont Symposium held in Europe), Toulouse, June 2002: Member of Scientific Committee and Co-organiser of International Symposium on 'Bias and Completeness in the Conodont Fossil Record'.