Claire Anderson is Professor of Social Pharmacy and Head of the Division of Pharmacy Practice and Policy at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. She has extensive research leadership experience within pharmacy and across a number of health, education and social science disciplines. She seeks to combine in depth qualitative and ethnographic methodologies with the practical demands of producing timely and formative research outcomes that can inform and change practice and policy. Her current research includesthe role of community pharmacists in improving the health of the public, the role of pharmacists in primary care, people’s experiences of using medicines and pharmacy education. She has published over 150 refereed papers, one book, eight book chapters and numerous conference abstracts. She is an elected member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society English Pharmacy Board. She is a past president of the Academic Section of the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP). She is a lead on pharmacy education for FIPEd working on academic and institutional capacity. She is International Associate Editor of the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education