Professional Role

I have been awarded the 2013 Beale Medal of the Operational Research Society for 'a sustained contribution to the theory, philosophy or practice of Operational Research.'

In 2016, I was made a Fellow of INFORMS.

I was awarded the 2017 Harold W Kuhn Award, jointly with co-authors Kyle Lin and Michael Atkinson, for the outstanding paper published in Naval research Logistics over a three year window.

I founded NATCOR, an EPSRC-funded national taught course centre in Operational Research (OR) in 2006. I directed NATCOR for its first six years, including securing follow-up funding from EPSRC in 2011.

For the period 2008-2014 I directed the LANCS Initiative, a £13M Science and Innovation project to expand research capability in foundational OR in the UK. This project is co-funded by EPSRC and Lancaster, Nottingham, Cardiff and Southampton universities.

I chair STOR-i, an EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in statistics and OR with substantial industrial engagement. The centre is joint betweeen the Departments of Management Science and Mathematics and Statistics.

I chair the Research Panel of the Operational Research Society.

I am a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College. Until the end of 2016, I served on the EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Strategic Advisory Team until April 2015.

I was a member of sub-panel 10 (mathematical sciences) for REF2014.

I currently serve on the editorial board of Naval Research Logistics.

I am a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Smith Institute.

Career Details

• 1976 PhD, Cambridge University
• 1976-2001: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University (appointed lecturer, 1976, promoted senior lecturer 1986, promoted reader 1991, promoted professor 1993)
• 1989-1990 Senior Research Fellow, Department of OR, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California
• 2002-2005: Management School, Edinburgh University. Professor of Management Science
• 2005-: Department of Management Science, Lancaster University, Professor in Statistics and OR (this appointment was joint with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics until 2011)
• 2008-, Distinguished Professsor in OR, Lancaster University