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Who’s Who 2011
Birthday Honours List — United Kingdom, The London Gazette, Saturday 12 June 2004, http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/57315/supplements/1
IVC.org https://web.archive.org/web/20111004162157/http://www.ivcom.org/en/home
Queen's University Belfast
https://www.qub.ac.uk/Research/GRI/mitchell-institute/People/HonoraryProfessors/