User:Colin F Parsons

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I took my first degree at Leicester University, where I gained a BSc Hons. in Geology in 1968.. From there, I won a competitive post-graduate, research award at the University of Keele for three years. Carried out research in the area of stratigraphy and ammonite taxonomy. Then had year at the University of Oxford as a research assistant to Professor Anthony Hallam, where I worked on the statistical variation of Middle/Upper Jurassic oysters. In 1972 I moved with my wife up to Liverpool, where for three years I was Senior Demonstrator in the Geology Department of the University, Finally completed my PhD in 1980, "Aspects of the Stratigraphy and Ammonite faunas of the Aalenian-Bajocian Stages of the Middle Jurassic in Great Britain.", University of Keele. Then moved back to London on getting an ILEA Science Induction course at the then Avery Hill College. Ended up with a London University Institute of Education Certificate in Science Education taught mainly Physics and Electronics in a couple of South London secondary schools, before moving to the Tertiary sector, when joining the London College of Printing in 1986. Ended up as Senior Lecturer in Computer Technology, from whence I retired late in 2002. Since then I have striven to get back into the Palaeontological world. I have been a Volunteer in the Cephalopod department of the Natural History Museum for four years now and have had my more academic Website, http://www.drcolinparsons.org.uk/, accepted by the UK Web Archiving Consortium for long term preservation, http://www.webarchive.org.uk/pan/12836/20070210/www.drcolinparsons.org.uk/index.html The work so preserved has been completed in the period 2003-present.