Hindley graduated in 1960 from Queen's University Belfast, remaining to earn an M.Sc. in 1961.
He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where his thesis supervisor was Ronald Harrop. Later, he returned to Queen's University for a D.Sc. in 1991.
He taught at Penn State University (1964–1966), Bristol University (1966–1968), and has been at Swansea University since 1968.
Hindley's Swansea homepage https://www.swansea.ac.uk/library/archive-and-research-collections/hocc/people-and-reminiscences/roger-hindley/ ↩