Dr Mark Edwards

Biography:

Mark obtained his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 1975 and after several years of post-doctoral experience at Edinburgh, UCNW, Bangor and Nottingham, Trent, he joined Sterling-Winthrop Research and Development in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980. After four years with SWRD, which included a major laboratory move to Alnwick in Northumberland he joined Searle Pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant in Morpeth.

After a ‘baptism of fire’ in the production world, which included a new family of four daughters, Mark’s activities extended to business development at Searle HQ in Chicago, USA and a much larger manufacturing plant at Continental Pharma, Landen, Belgium.

Mark’s interpersonal and managerial skills were honed by four managers in three different countries on two different continents with three different time zones speaking in five different languages! He returned to the University of Greenwich in 1994, when a new career lay ahead to close the apparent gap between required industrial skills for employees of the pharmaceutical industry and the general student output of academic institutions in the UK. Aware that Total Quality Management under-pinned all successful pharmaceutical operations Mark was determined to reinforce the importance of well-carried out science and the individual’s responsibility to communicate results and make effective recommendations to management.

Since then Mark became a member of the Institute of Learning and Teaching in 2002 and as this changed became Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2007 and was appointed Principal Lecturer in pharmaceutical sciences the same year.

Mark was awarded a Teaching Quality Education Fund Innovation grant in 2008 to provide ‘proof of concept’ for the use of knowledge management tools to improve the assessment, feedback and employability of students in the School of Science.

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