• Organiser of LMS Symposium on ``Analytical Approaches in Continuum mechanics'', Bath, June 1996 (jointly with J. Sivaloganathan).

• Organiser of LMS Symposium on ``Singular perturbations and nonlinearities in continuum mechanics", Bath, January 1998.

• Chair of IUTAM Symposium on "Singularities, Asymptotics and Homogenisation in Problems of Mechanics", July 2002, Liverpool.
  
  IUTAM Symposium Report
  
  

• Chair of 47th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium, April 2005, Liverpool (as part of the conference ``Mathematics 2005'' incorporating 57th British Mathematical Colloquium and 47th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium).