During this time Molyneux was responsible for project BroadNet, a network designed to deliver training materials online to Small Business across England's West Midlands region.
[1] For this pioneering work, in 1994 he was appointed a Fellow of the British computer giant ICL alongside other distinguished ICL Fellows In 1995, whilst holding the Microsoft Chair of Advanced Learning Technologies at the University of Wolverhampton, he developed one of the first Virtual Learning Environments in the UK.
In 2003 he proposed and attracted funding for an "e-Innovation Centre" at Wolverhampton University which could combine the research and development skills of the higher education sector with that of industry to promote Internet-based start-up companies.
[7] He was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 1994, but on 25 April 2009 he resigned as a Magistrate due to his refusal to stop reporting the outcome of public criminal hearings on Twitter.
[citation needed] He is a former patron of Shropshire Young Enterprise and from 2003-2007 was Mayor of Oakengates, in Telford where he lived until 2012 when he relocated to Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.