He holds the academic post of Reader and Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire where he runs the Dance Psychology Lab. Before moving to the University of Hertfordshire Peter was a senior lecturer at Kingston University (2001-2004), a Principal Research Scientist at Vox Generation (2000-2001), Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge University (1998-2000) and a Lecturer in Psychology at Greenwich University (1996-1998). Peter has a PhD from the University of Essex (awarded 1998), an MSc in Neural Computation from University of Stirling (awarded 1994) and a BSc (hons) in Psychology and English from the University of Surrey (Roehampton Institute) (awarded 1993).