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Who is Tim Sandle?


Dr. Tim Sandle is an experienced microbiologist, quality professional, auditor and technical writer. Tim has an in-depth experience of writing and publishing across a variety of scientific and educational fields.
Tim can provide an independent and scientifically based service for the following areas:
  • Consultations relating to pharmaceutical processing, risk assessment, contamination control, and microbiological tests. Areas of expertise include sterility testing, environmental monitoring, LAL testing, bioburden, water testing, antibiotic assays, infection control and microbial identification.
  • Auditing (to GMP and ISO 9001)
  • Training
  • Presentations
  • Technical advice
  • Rapid methods
  • Validation protocols
  • Writing articles: magazine, newspaper, consumer education, health journalism
  • Newsletters, e-newsletters
  • White papers (monographs, special reports)
  • Educational manuals
  • E-books
  • Web page content
  • Blog writing
  • Journalism
  • Journal publications
  • Proof reading

For details, contact Dr. Tim Sandle.
 

Want to know more about Tim Sandle? Tim has completed a survey for Insights Now! and here are his answers:

 

  1. What is your profession?

 

Pharmaceutical microbiologist (and chartered biologist)

 

  1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

 

Working on an article or book chapter during the day and then spending time with family in the evening.

 

  1. What is your greatest fear?

 

Starting to write a book without being able to finish it.

 

  1. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

 

Procrastination

 

  1. Which person do / did you most admire?

 

Tony Benn

 

  1. Which living person do you most despise?

 

Despise is a strong term, but I think Vladimir Putin.

 

  1. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

 

Hmmmm.

 

  1. Which talent would you most like to have?

 

To be able to play a musical instrument

 

  1. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

 

My doctorate, especially coming from a working class community with low expectations.

 

  1. Where would you most like to live?

 

Scotland or Cornwall

 



  1. What is your most marked characteristic?

 

Independence and tenacity

 

  1. Who are your favourite writers?

 

George Orwell, Franz Kafka and Ernest Hemmingway

 

  1. Which historical figure do you most identify with?

 

Wat Tyler or Gerrard Winstanley, but the historical record has many gaps with both of them

 

  1. What is your favourite music?

 

Jazz, as a genera. Miles Davis and Billie Holiday.

 

As a lyricist – Billy Bragg.

 

For entertainment – Talking Heads and David Byrne.

 

  1. What are your favourite movies?

 

Blade Runner, The Shining, The Godfather, Star Wars, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Taxi Driver – essentially 1970s cinema

 

  1. What is your political ideology

 

I am a Marxist, in the classic economic frame of reference

 

  1. How would you like to die?

 

Old and with my cognitive abilities intact

 

  1. What is something unusual about you?

 

I was a director of Elstree Film Studios (when the Labour council undertook a compulsory purchase order of the studio to save it from being turned into a housing estate)

 

  1. What is your motto?

 

“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”

― Leon Trotsky


        20.  Who do you turn to for advice?

 

    My sister (Liz) and son (Jake)

 
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