From 2017 -        Professor, Department of Wine, Food and Molecular Biosciences, Lincoln University, New Zealand

From 2016           Visiting Professor, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

1999 – 2016        Associate Professor, Department of Wine, Food and Molecular Biosciences, Lincoln University, New Zealand

From 2015 -        Visiting Chair Professor, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang, China.

1988 - 1999         Senior Lecturer, Department of Animal Science, Lincoln University, New Zealand

1982 - 1988         Research Scientist (Toxicology & Mineral metabolism) & Adjunct Professor , University of Saskatchewan, Canada                 

1979 - 1982         Postdoctoral Researcher (Veterinary Pathology), Murdoch University, Western Australia.

1995 – 2008        Several Visiting Professorships at Huazhong Agricultural University (China), Hokkaido University (Japan), Oregon State University & Iowa State University (USA), University of Santiago de Compostella (Spain), Silpakorn University & Burapha University (Thailand), & University of Peradeniya, Guangdong Ocean University (China) & Rajarate University (Sri Lanka).

My current employment with Lincoln University involves academic leadership in teaching and research in toxicology including food and environmental toxicology, food safety and security, animal health and animal physiology. Teaching includes a number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses including toxicology, advanced toxicology, food contaminants and safety, animal physiology, animal health, and a module on acid-base balance in farm animals in environmental physiology. In the past 6 years, I have conducted twelve, 1 and 2-day short courses in food toxicology, food safety and security and applied environmental toxicology overseas. I have /had research collaborations with University of Lille (France), Oregon State University (USA), University of Santiago Compostella (Spain), Silpakorn University (Thailand), Guangdong Ocean University [Zhanjiang], Huazhong Agriculture University, Wuhan & Jinan University, Guangzhou (China), University of Madras (India), and Peradeniya University and Rajarate University (Sri Lanka). My research theme (as evidenced in my publications) has centered around food toxicology, food safety and security, developing biomarkers / biosensors for environmental contaminants, and heavy metal metabolism in a variety of animal species.

Memberships

1997      (FRCPath), Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, UK.

1988      (FAAVCT), Fellow of the American Academy of Veterinary & Comparative Toxicology, USA.

2002      Registered Toxicologist in U.K. (British Toxicology Society & Institute of Biology, UK) & Europe.

2008      Lincoln University Teaching Excellence Principal Award.

2003      Lincoln University Teaching Excellence Innovation Award.

2001      Rotary International Fellowship – To conduct courses in Toxicology in Asia

2000      Lincoln University Foundation Award, To research at Iowa State University, USA to ‘Develop a novel non-invasive

neurophysiological biomarker in earthworms exposed to environmental pollutants.

1998      George Fleming Prize - For the most meritorious paper published in 1997, in “The Journal” ”(formerly British Veterinary Journal).

1995      Trimble Agricultural Research Fellowship – 1995 – To research at Oregon State University, USA on ‘Molecular Toxicology Initiatives: Purification of a novel fish protein, an ecological biomarker”