The following list describes some of the other organisations and institutions with whom I work or am, (in one way or another) associated. For more details, click on the title of the organisation or on the blue links in the text.
1) Coventry University
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2) ICON (Imperial College Consultants Ltd.)
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3) Land and Minerals Consulting Ltd. (Bristol)
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4) MiMeMiP (Minerals and Metals, Mining and Processing Network)
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5) RWIN (Radioactive Waste Immobilisation Network)
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6) The Association of Consulting Scientists
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7) BSI British Standards
BSI is part of the BSI Group and is the national standards authority for the UK. It offers many services concerned with standardisation of products and practices, principally, it:- Certifies management systems and products
- Provides product testing services
- Develops private, national and international standards
- Provides training and information on standards and international trade and
- Provides performance management software solutions
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8) The Society of Chemical Industry



9) Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy
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10) The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.
The Institute was formed from the merger of the Institute of Materials and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in June 2002, and is the professional body for the international materials, minerals and mining community. It occupies rather grand premises on Carlton House Terrace and regional offices in Stoke-on-Trent and Doncaster. I serve on the committee of the Cementitious Materials Group which organises (amongst other meetings) the annual Cement and Concrete Science Conference in the UK. Our recent conference was in Manchester on the 15th and 16th September 2008 and will be followed by a meeting in Leeds next year.__________________________________________________________________________
11) The Geological Society of London
12) The Royal Institution of Great Britain
This remarkable institution does not count me amongst its membership, but like so many people, I pay my half crown and dust my black tie, to attend the Friday Evening Discourses. Although perhaps now best known for its televised Christmas Lectures, the RI hosts very many events across the whole scientific spectrum. The magnificent buildings on Albermarle Street are undergoing a major redevelopment and renovation at present to provide new facilities for the institution and new homes for the Faraday Museum and Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory. Of particular importance to many is the introduction of new seats (with leg-room!) and air conditioning in the Faraday Lecture Theatre. Perhaps the last thing to mention is that membership is open to everyone. In keeping with the spirit if the RI over 200 years, it remains open, non-exclusive and welcoming.
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13) The National Physical Laboratory
I collaborate with the NPL Materials Centre, particularly with Thermodynamics and Process Modelling Group, who maintain the thermodynamic simulator MTDATA. This is a powerful and sophisticated code, performing true free energy minimisation on complex systems and has found application in many chemical systems. I have participated in work on oxide and aqueous systems for around ten years and have an interest in the molten salts programme in connection with our own OPTIMISE and ULECeS projects. (See my UCL page).
Recently, I have become a research contractor on a project simulating cement hydrates, a project which is entering its third phase. Our original study produced a robust and expandable simulation of CSH dissolution, based on a sub-lattice model, which accounts for its varying stoichiometry. At the end of the Phase-1 study a critically assessed database was produced describing forty cement hydrate phases. Currently, the project seeks to include foreign ions in CSH gel (especially sulphate and carbonate) and to simulate the interactions of cements with priority pollutants, such as lead, zinc, cadmium and arsenic, along with the transuranics, uranium and thorium.
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14) The Knowledge Transfer Networks
I became involved with the DTI KNowledge transfer networks after serving as a Research Manager for one of their predecessor organisations, the Mini-Waste Faraday Partnership. The KTNs act as umbrella organisations for their subject areas; providing a linked community of expertise and interest and act as a conduit for information exchange. This includes regulatory information, calls for proposals and partners, discussion groups and other activities linking businesses, research organisations and consultants in many fields. In particular, they provide:- Managed networks - these aim to encourage the exchange of knowledge and information, by way of outreach activities
- Information networks - these are designed to foster cross-sector and cross-border debate, by way of signposting activities
- Issues networks - these seek to draw industry players together to carry out problem-solving activities
- Chemistry Innovation
- Integrated Pollution Management
- Materials
- Modern Built Environment
- Resource Efficiency
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15) The University of Greenwich
I have been associated with Greenwich fro some years, initially (from 1989) as a visiting lecturer on the M.Sc. course in Geomaterials . I was appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2000 and have supervised M.Sc. and Ph.D. projects in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (now the larger School of Science) at the Medway Campus. My closest links are with Drs. Colin Hills and Paula Carey who run the Centre for Contaminated Land Remediation and the spin-out company Carbon8 in partnership with my Colleague at UCL Professor Stefaan Simons. The Medway campus occupies what was the Royal Navy College in Chatham, on the north Kent Coast and is an excellent conference venue, having hosted the 23rd Cement and Concrete Science Conference in 2003.__________________________________________________________________________
16) WARMNET
The Waste and Resource Management Network is a network of Universities involved in wastes management education and research. Its goals are to:- Promote wastes management as an academic discipline and to encourage collaboration in curriculum development, R&D and consultancy
- Promote universities as centres of excellence in actively pursuing policies of sustainable waste management
- Support other regional and national networks
Each year it has hosted a successful conference at Nottingham, titled Tackling Waste, to which we contributed in 2006. The Network is managed by Dr. Margaret Bates at the University of Northampton who is co-director of the SITA Centre for Sustainable Wastes Management.
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17) The Royal Society of Chemistry
The RSC is the largest organisation of its kind in Europe and represents both academic and professional interests throughout the discipline in this country. It headquarters occupy the East Wing of Burlington House (Piccadilly, London) and it publishes from dedicated premises in Cambridge. The Society's activities are far to numerous to summarise here, but include networks, conferences and publishing, along with regional and special interest groups. I am a member of one of these; the Molten Salts Discussion Group, founded by my colleague at Imperial, Professor Douglas Inman, who was its original chairman.__________________________________________________________________________________