Mark is Head of Nursing at Manchester Metropolitan University UK and is the Editor-in- Chief of the Journal of Clinical Nursing (2021-present) and previously edited the Journal of Advanced Nursing (2013-2020). He holds Visiting Professorial appointments at the University of Genoa, Italy, Yangzhou University, China and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Mark is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Faculty of Nursing), a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, and a 2021 inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame. Mark has published over 180 scholarly papers: with a Scopus h-index of 27, a Clarivate h-index of 27 and a Google Scholar h-index of 39.