Secondary Education
Attended New Mills Grammar School (1954-61), Head Boy (1960-61).
Higher Education
B.Sc Hons Physics University of Edinburgh (1966); M.Sc Durham University (1967);
PhD Physics Department at the University of Warwick (1969).
Postgraduate work at Warwick University was supervised by Dr Cliff Hearn of the Theoretical Physics group and involved extensive collaboration with the Royal Radar Establishment at Malvern and Dr Tony Stradling’s group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, The research involved the theory and pioneering Monte Carlo studies of very non-equilibrium photo-excited electron transport phenomena (hot electrons) in semiconductors.
Post-Doctoral
Awarded Science Research Council (SRC) Personal Research Fellowship (1969-1971) in the Physics Department at the University of Warwick to develop the quantum transport theory of the magnetophonon effect.This work involved collaboration with an experimental Physics group at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford University, involving Dr Tony Stradling and Dr Lawrence Eaves.