 Richard Dolby has held appointments on the UK Technical Advisory Board on the Structural Integrity of High Integrity Plant (TAGSI), the Materials Board of the UK Defence Scientific Advisory Council and various Department of Trade and Industry Committees, as well as the Council of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IoM3).He was President of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining from 2006-2007 and is a past Vice-President of the International Institute of Welding (IIW) where he also served as Chairman of the IIW Technical Management Board and Chairman of the IIW Research Strategy Group.He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1987 and awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2000 for his services to research and technology transfer in materials joining.