Senior Lecturer and Assoc Dean

Gordon Becket is Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Lancashire. After graduating from the School of Pharmacy, University of London, Gordon worked in hospital and industrial pharmacy before undertaking postgraduate studies in the area of medicinal chemistry at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. Following this, Gordon was a lecturer in pharmaceutics in the School of Pharmacy at RGU for four years before moving to SE Asia where he worked as senior lecturer in pharmacy practice in the Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore. After twelve years in Singapore, Gordon joined the School of Pharmacy at the University of Otago as senior lecturer in pharmacy practice and later became Associate Dean for postgraduate professional programmes. In the latter role, he was responsible for developing the distance-taught professional programmes throughout New Zealand. He was also a director of two local community pharmacies. Gordon has maintained research interests in both pharmaceutical science and pharmacy practice, is the author of more than 100 publications and has supervised more than 25 research students.