Dr Mark Bendall
Senior Lecturer

Biography
Mark has been a Senior Lecturer for many years spanning a range of subjects, both political and criminological. Experience had included being on the team to establish new degrees such as the Politics degree and the inception of the Criminology degree at Chester in 2004. He continues to be an Editor for Cogent Social Science (Taylor and Francis) and published with a range of presses including Oxford University Press. External funding has been secured for example from the British Academy and seen a number of doctoral students to completion, some of whom are themselves now lecturers.
Teaching and Supervision
Mark has taught on a range of subjects spanning Anglo-American politics and culture, as well as Comparative Politics and Political Communication. He also taught for some years the module Criminal Representations. Nominations have been received for Most Innovative Lecturer, Most Helpful PAT and Most helpful Feedback, for example. His work securing sponsorship from M and S and Odeon cinemas for a Bond Event, linked to a Criminology module, was short listed for a THES award.