I welcome any contact with regard to the contents of this website - to do so, use this email address:

This is my personal email address, not that of the university where I work - if you are [or have been] one of my students then you will know my .ac.uk address - feel free to use it.

As a footnote: if you are whinging that I haven't made the email address above a link, and you've got to type - or cut-and-paste - it into your own email browser, here's the reason.

Those ne'er-do-wells out there who collect email addresses for spamming purposes do so by sending out 'email harvesters'. These devilish little web spiders can detect any email addresses that are written as a hyper-link on a web page [ie so that users can click on them to open an email browser]. Many, however, cannot read an email address written as plain text as I have done above. And for those spiders that can identify plain-text emails, you can go a step further by showing your email as