I grew up in the suburbs of South London in England. I went to school at St Olave’s Grammar School for boys on the south bank of the River Thames. In 1971 I went to Magdalene College of Cambridge University and read Natural Sciences where I specialized in Experimental Psychology. I then stayed at Cambridge University and did research in physiology and psychology looking at the control of eye and head movements under the supervision of Dr. Colin Blakemore. I then went to Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia to continue this work as a post-doctoral researcher under the supervision of Dr. Max Cynader. After a year and a half I went back to Britain to work in Durham in the North of England where I had an independent research position as an Addison Wheeler fellow. I took up a lectureship at Cardiff University in 1983 teaching physiology to medical students. I came to Canada permanently in 1990 to take up a professorship in Psychology at York University in Toronto.

Recording eye and head movements during various patterns of motion in order to reveal coding mechanisms. Measuring the perception of vision, space and hearing during movement. Measuring perception of self motion while moving around virtual reality environments