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Dr Geoffrey Thomas

Fellow, Honorary Fellow

President Emeritus, Kellogg College

BSc Wales, MA Oxford, PhD Cambridge, DSc (Hon) UW Trinity St David, FLSW

CV Summary

Director, University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education, 1986–2007; President, Kellogg College (formerly Rewley House), 1990–2007; now President Emeritus (Honorary Fellow, 2008)

Education

Maesteg Grammar Sch.; UC of Swansea (BSc 1st Cl. Hons Physics); Churchill Coll., Cambridge (PhD 1966); Univ. of Oxford (MA)

Career

Post-doctoral res., Cavendish Lab., University of Cambridge, 1966–67; Staff Tutor, UC of Swansea, 1967–78; Dep. Dir, Dept of Ext. Studies, University of Oxford, 1978–86; Fellow, Linacre College, Oxford, 1978–90, Honorary Fellow, 1990. Co-Chairman, Council on Scientific Literacy, Chicago Academy of Science, 1993–2005, Member, HEFCW, 2000–08. Visiting Scholar: Smithsonian Institution, 1986; Northern Illinois University, 1986; University of California, Berkeley, 1993; University of Washington, 1993; Harvard University, 1993; University of Georgia, 1999. Gov., University of Glamorgan, 2009–11; Chair, University of Wales Trinity St David, 2010–2014; Honorary Fellow: Trinity College, Carmarthen, 2007; Swansea Metropolitan University., 2009. Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International, 2007; Fellow, Learned Society of Wales, 2014; Aelod, Gorsedd Beirdd Cymru, 2014.

Publications

(ed jtly) The Nuclear Arms Race, 1982; (ed jtly) Science and Sporting Performance, 1982; (ed jtly) University Continuing Education 1981–2006, 2010; numerous articles on public understanding of science, and on continuing education policy.