Mark has been a Senior Lecturer for many years spanning a range of subjects, both political and criminological.
Experience had included being on the team to establish new degrees such as the Politics degree and the inception of the Criminology degree at Chester in 2004.
He continues to be an Editor for Cogent Social Science (Taylor and Francis) and published with a range of presses including Oxford University Press.

External funding  has been secured for example from the British Academy and seen a number of doctoral students to completion, some of whom are themselves now lecturers.