Paul qualified as a pharmacist in 1992 and worked as a practising community pharmacist for Boots the Chemist. He became a teacher practitioner at Bradford University before moving to Portsmouth University performing the same role. In 1996, he took the post of a research pharmacist, and gained his PhD in 2000. His PhD centred on skill mix in community pharmacy. After gaining his PhD Paul took a full-time post as senior lecturer at Portsmouth University. His main duties were teaching various aspects of practice but in particular diagnosis and therapeutics. This culminated in the publication of two text books in 2004 and 2005 in the area of diagnosis for pharmacists. He also contributed to the RAE in 2001. In 2005, Paul took a career break before joining the University of Wolverhampton in 2006. His main areas of interest centre on patient self-care and safety, provision of medicine advice and the development of competence and professionalism for pharmacists. He currently supervises 7 PhD students and is involved in a number of funded research projects.
Current research projects
Professionalism in pharmacy
What effect do medicine information (MI) answers provided to primary care prescribers have on patient care
Out of hours medicine information provision in UK hospitals
Pharmacists clinical decision making in differential diagnosis
Facilitators for Early Adoption of Practice Change within the Community Pharmacy in England
Evaluation of Healthy Living Pharmacies
Improving Elderly Care discharge from hospital
Evaluation of mental health teaching for pharmacists
