Spencer is currently a 2nd year fulltime PhD student at Hull York Medical School studying lung cancer diagnosis in general practice.
Previous to this recent change in direction, Spencer joined the NHS in 1993 and has worked in the NHS within a variety of NHS environments gaining extensive experience working within and across challenging and complex NHS organisation. More recently, the last nine years working in senior management posts within the health improvement and behavioural change arena for national, regional, strategic and local organisations within the NHS.
In 2003 Spencer was an early adopter of social marketing methodology in the NHS and has experience of design and delivery in social marketing where he studied at the Institute of Social Marketing at Stirling University under Professor Gerard Hastings in 2006 and has a Masters Degree in Design from the University of Sunderland.