Until recently Mark held a senior academic post as Director, the Centre for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He was a teacher for 11 years holding posts of increasing leadership responsibility and a lecturer at the University of Sheffield. Over the past 28 years Mark’s work has included running national and international STEM Education programmes. He played a central role in all 11 Action Programmes (APs) of the UK STEM programme. He has run national Science and STEM education projects, in partnership with the British Council, ministries of education and STEM companies in Thailand, Malaysia, Brunei, Philippines, Vietnam, China, Sri Lanka, India, Kazakhstan, Ecuador, Azerbaijan and UAE. Mark has experience of working at a national policy making level, running regional, national, and international programmes to support ministries, education areas, schools, school leadership teams, departments, and teachers to effectively implement coherent and coordinated STEM programmes.
