he became a member of the governing bodies of ucd and dublin city university in 1982, remaining on the former until 1998 and the latter until 1987. he was elected by the governing body of ucd to the senate of the national university of ireland, of which ucd is a constituent university, in late 1982, and was co-opted to two further terms (from 1987 and 1992), and elected to another five-year term by the nui's convocation in 1997. he was also the founder and a director of the ucd industrial development facility, uic, now the nova ucd.