 He is the author of the entry on "Electroforming" for the Encyclopaedia of Production Engineering (2013), and a volume editor for "Comprehensive Materials Processing" (2014).The IMechE and the Society for Underwater Technology have awarded him prizes for his researches.He held a Royal Society/SERC (now EPSRC) Industrial Fellowship between 1987–89, and has been the director of three spin-off companies.