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Professor of Health and Care Policy, University of South Wales

Mark is Director of the Welsh Institute for Heath and Social Care and Professor of Health and Care Policy at the University of South Wales. Over the past ten years, he has undertaken more than fifty specialist research studies and evaluative reviews and gained considerable experience of managing and delivering complex and sensitive studies specifically in health and social care, and across the public sector in the UK. He has developed an expertise in applied research and evaluation methodologies and his work is focused on providing a robust and independent evidence-base in all of WIHSC’s work.

Mark graduated from University of Wales Swansea with both BA and PhD, and was a Lecturer there for two years. He worked for four years as Head of Qualitative Research at a social research company, before joining WIHSC in April 2008. Mark’s work has centred on the application and implementation of health and social care policy in practice, and the evidence of its effectiveness. He has authored more than 100 papers and reports which have directly impacted upon policy decisions within the public sector, and has published in journals relevant to the fields of social care, planning and health.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Health and Care Policy, University of South Wales