Currently the Deputy Head of School for Nursing and Midwifery at The University of Bolton. Mark originally completed his nurse training at St Martins College in Lancaster and Lancaster University.  Clinically, Mark worked in surgical care and specialised in orthopaedics and Trauma working predominantly in North Lancashire and South Lakes at Morecambe Bay NHS Trust.

Mark has worked in higher education since 2010 working in the UK, and abroad, at Leeds Beckett University, University of Salford and Rushmore Business School Mauritius where he developed and taught CPD. Internationally Mark has developed pre-registration nursing education leading the development of the first UK undergraduate nursing programme that led to professional registration with the Nursing Council of Mauritius.