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I obtained my BSc, MSc and PhD degrees at the Queen’s University of Belfast. I have worked in industry (for Unilever Research) and held a number of academic posts including, most recently, Head of Pharmaceutics at the Hertfordshire School of Pharmacy. I joined the Keele School of Pharmacy in January 2010 and am responsible for aspects of pharmaceutics within the School.

My main research interests are in percutaneous absorption, particularly in the development of quantitative models of skin absorption and in aspects related to language / resource development in teaching and learning. Most recently, I have - at the invitation of the Karolinska Institute, Sweden - presented my research at the 1st International Conference on Modelling of Dermal Absorption, held September 2012 in Beijing, People's Republic of China. In November I was invited to speak at the Royal Society, London, at the first alumni event for the Royal Soceity MP-Scientist Pairing Scheme, which I participated in last year. 

M.Pharm.

Pharmaceutics:

Level One – Introduction to Dosage Forms and Routes of Administration

Level Two – Various aspects of the formulation, manufacture and testing / QA of pharmaceutical products

Level Three – aspects of dosage form design; Research Methods

Level M – Option topics (percutaneous absorption) and research projects

• Chartered Chemist and Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, since March 1996.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, July 2004.
• Founding member and current committee member of the EPSRC Drug Delivery Research Network.
• Chairman (2004–2006), treasurer (2004–2005) and committee member (2003 – current date) of the Skin Forum Group (a focus group of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, initially funded by EPSRC).
• Representative of the EPSRC Skin Forum on the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin, 2008 – 2010.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cosmetic Sciences and Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology; Editor for Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (Special Themed Edition on Recent Advances in Percutaneous Absorption, published June 2010).
• Member of the International Steering Committee Member, Handbook of Pharmaceutical Excipients.
• Member of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Group of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Member of the Industrial Pharmacy Group of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Member of the Academic Pharmacy Group of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Member of the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
• External examiner for the M.Pharm. programme at the University of Ulster and the M.Res. programme at the University of Brighton Schools of Pharmacy.