OBE MA (Cantab) DipBldgCons FRICS FSA IHBC
Chartered Surveyor

• Lecturer at the Reading University's School of Real Estate and Planning. I currently run the MSc Conservation of the Historic Environment. I also deliver a conservation modules to undergraduate and postgraduate students of real estate, construction, rural business and planning.
• Course director of short courses in the historic environment programme at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education
• Appointed an OBE in New Year Honours List 2010
• Member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings' casework committee
• Joint author of the revised British Standard Guide to the Conservation of Historic Buildings BS7913:2013
• Editor of the Journal of Architectural Conservation, a peer-reviewed academic journal
• Chair of RICS south-east Awards
• Co-chair of the Heritage Alliance's Spatial Planning Advocacy Group. This involves regular liaison with government departments and politicians on heritage issues. I have also given evidence to a Parliamentary select committee.
• Member of ICOMOS-UK Executive Committee and Education and Training Committee
• Member of the Church Buildings Council which is the Church of England body with overall responsibility for church buildings. I served on the Faculty Progress Group in 2012-14, which recommended ways of simplifying the procedures for carrying out works to Anglican churches
• Membership assessor for the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. Interim education secretary 2015-6
• Board member of AABC (Architects Accredited in Building Conservation)
• Assessor for Conservation Accredition Register for Engineers
• Past chair and member of the RICS Building Conservation Forum steering group. Past editor of RICS Building COnservation Journal.
• Past chair of the Gloucester Diocesan Advisory Committee, the body which advises on repairs and alterations to churches in the diocese
• Previously deputy chair of Council on Training in Architectural Conservation (COTAC)

• Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• MA in History from University of Cambridge
• RICS post-graduate Diploma in Building Conservation
• Full member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation
• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy