Personal statement
I'm a teaching associate in the Strathclyde Institute for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, based at the University of Strathclyde. I have an honours degree in Chemistry and a PhD in biological analysis using Raman Optic activity from the University of Glasgow, and an MSc in Pharmaceutical Analysis from Strathclyde University. After a 20 year research career in industry and academia (with most of that time based at the Cancer Research UK Formulation Unit in SIPBS), my family circumstances changed and I moved into a role as a carer for members of my family. I took up my current part-time position a few months later, and have refocused my career on teaching and pedagogical/andragogical research. I have authored papers and presented my work on both sides of my career. I blog (which can be found at drsjford.wordpress.com) and if you search youtube hard enough you can watch me having my headset alight by Tom Pringle (aka Brainiac's Dr Bunhead). I enjoy playing my bagpipes and I'm a bit of a data geek. I am particularly pleased to have a Erdos-Bacon number of 10!
Prizes and awards
- Nominated for Most Enthusiastic teacher award
- Recipient
- 12/5/2021
- Nominated and shortlisted for the Digital Innovator Award
- Recipient
- 12/5/2021
- Nominated for Most Enthusiastic teacher award
- Recipient
- 9/5/2019
- Nominated and shortlisted for Most Enthusiastic teacher award
- Recipient
- 11/5/2018
- Best Overall Teacher Award
- Recipient
- 11/5/2018
- Faculty Excellence Award
- Recipient
- 11/5/2018
More prizes and awards
Qualifications
Dr Steven Ford graduated in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 1991 and, funded by a Wellcome Trust Prize Studentship, he completed his Ph.D. in Novel Raman Studies of the Conformation and Dynamics of Biological Macromolecules. After his Ph.D. he diversified into other analytical techniques and completed a M.Sc. in Pharmaceutical Analysis at the University of Strathclyde (this time funded by a Sanofi-Winthrop Scholarship). He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Chartered Chemist and was an (IMP) Qualified Person under the transitional arrangements following the adoption of EC directive 2001/20.
Research interests
Analytical method development for pharmaceutical analysis.
Mathematical processing of data to enhance quantitiative/qualitative measurements.
Sonification - the conversion of data to sound.
Developing 'core skills' in undergrad students and postgrad communties.
Professional activities
- Breaking Barriers
- Speaker
- 20/9/2022
- Instructor for LIbrary Carpentries (National Health Services Library and Knowledge Services)
- Consultant
- 19/10/2021
- Analytical Research Forum 2021
- Participant
- 21/6/2021
- Host/helper
- Consultant
- 20/4/2021
- Helper/Host
- Consultant
- 31/3/2021
- Snakes and Ladders at Monte Carlo!
- Blogger
- 4/11/2020
More professional activities
Projects
- Saudi Food and Drug Authority SFDA
- Khadra, Ibrahim (Principal Investigator) Ford, Steven (Co-investigator)
- 14-Jan-2019 - 30-Jan-2019
- Cancer Research UK Formulation - PhD Studentship
- Halbert, Gavin (Principal Investigator) Dick, Lindsay (Co-investigator) Elliott, Moira (Co-investigator) Ford, Steven (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2022
- Roberts Funding / Skills Training / RA4879
- Ford, Steven (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2012 - 31-Jan-2015
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