Mark Gant is Head of the Centre for Student Exchange and Language Development which includes the English for Academic Purposes, Global Mobility and Languages and Cultures teams. He is also currently Programme Leader for Spanish and has had the privilege of working as Head of the Department of Languages and Cultures (previously Department of Modern Languages) where he was also previously Deputy Head, leading a dynamic and dedicated team of staff. Mark is enthusiastic about all aspects of language provision, academic exchange and placements learning and before coming to Chester in 2000 he had worked in both the Spanish Department and Foreign Language Centre of the University of Exeter, and University of Exeter Summer School in British Life and Culture as well as in other summer schools teaching English to speakers of other languages, and working as a freelance translator and interpreter, in editing and in archiving.