1. Nick Petford has worked for BP and on academic and commercial research projects throughout the world.
12 Facts About Nick Petford
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Nick Petford is a deputy lieutenant for Northamptonshire and in 2021 was granted Freedom of the City of London.
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Nick Petford's family come from the Kentish Town and Islington areas of North London.
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Nick Petford left school at 16, training as a refrigeration engineer and then working in retail, before doing an Access Course in Science at Southwark College.
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Nick Petford received a PhD from the University of Liverpool in 1991 and a DSc in 2009.
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Nick Petford holds an honorary DSc from Amity University, a private university based in India, is Visiting Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney and the Communication University of China.
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Nick Petford is a former Royal Society University Research Fellow and Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
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In 1977, Nick Petford co-founded Strate Jacket, Southampton's first punk band, although he only featured in the first line up and left before they released their first single.
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Nick Petford contributed to Stick It in Your Ear, a fanzine-based, cassette-only label based in Southampton devoted to local Southampton music, which had a policy of releasing a small number of cassettes, for free, of any music sent to it by local musicians.
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Over seven years, it released 43 cassette items with Nick Petford contributing two self-penned cassettes: Smile Please and Minerva Terrace, both released in 1983.
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Nick Petford has been known to at times express controversial viewpoints.
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Nick Petford is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, American Geophysical Union, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was Vice President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland.