He came to the University of Surrey in November 1990 from Imperial College in the University of London where he'd been a system programmer in the Computing Support Group of the Department of Computing. Prior to that he was Data Processing Manager at Applied Property Research Ltd, a commercial database provider based in the City of London.

Travel - A six times circumnavigator and general inveterate traveller, he has visited all but two contients on the planet (an oversight he plans to rectify soon). In terms of countries, he's visited Andorra, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cook Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Samoa, Spain, Singapore, Switzerland, Tahiti, Tanzania, Thailand and the United States of America. Within the USA, he's visited Arizona, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indianna, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennesee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. In Canada, he's travelled as the length and breadth of British Columbia (north to Fort Nelson, west to Prince Rupert), and is gradually exploring Ontario.

Science Fiction - An avid collector of science fiction films and TV series, Bevis has an extremely large video tape, LaserDisc and DVD library collected over more than a decade and half and from throughout the world. His current favourite TV series include Xena Warrior Princess, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Charmed. Other long term favourites include Blakes' 7, Dr Who, Earth 2, VR.5, Something Is Out There, Babylon-5, The X Files, The New Avengers, Clarissa Explains It All, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager (most of which he's written web pages about). and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Railways - Bevis has for many years been interested in railways in general, with particular emphasis towards preserved and Narrow Gauge railways. Initially interested primarily in the British scene, recently he has branched out into US, Canadian and New Zealand lines. This interest extends to model railways and he owns a moderate G-gauge LGB and AristoCraft (well actually, more accurately the custom products made by AristoCraft for HobbyCraft Canada) setup based upon Alpine metre gauge railways and Canadian standard gauge. He also has a growing N-gauge collection in both British and US outlines. Recently a small collection of Canadian outline HO-gauge equipment has also been added to the inventory, plus a few bits of UK OO stuff. Pretty much all of it except the UK-outline N-gauge stuff has now been equiped with decoders for Digital Command Control (DCC). For a random collection of railways related stuff, click here.

Female Singer-Songwriters - Bevis's interest in music mainly concentrates on female singer-songwriters, particularly those who's music falls into Rock or Metal genres. Amongst his favourite musicans are Lee Aaron, Laura Branigan, Kim Carnes, Lita Ford, Debbie Gibson, Heart, Joan Jett, Jenny Morris, Sharon O'Neill, Suzi Quatro, and Jennifer Rush. He's also into all-girl rock groups such as The Bangles, The Go-Gos, and Vixen. Needless to say he has a pretty large collection of CDs collected from all around the world...