I am a Council member, the Communications Officer, and chair of its Library Committee, of the Society for Psychical Research, a supporting member of the Parapsychological Association, a member of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena, and an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (by research).

I have Ph.Ds on Life After Death in the Cinema, from the University of East Anglia; and on George Albert Smith (1864–1959): From Stage to Screen, from Anglia Ruskin University, about a significant figure in the early history of the SPR.

Occasional blog posts can be found at: tomruffles.blogspot.com