Rob Clarke made an important contribution to physiology and to the Physiological Society. A physiology graduate from University of Manchester (1978), he studied for his PhD with Jim Pascoe at University College London. He later joined the Department of Physiology and Environmental Sciences (now Animal Sciences) at the University of Nottingham as lecturer, becoming Senior Lecturer in 1995. Working predominantly on nociception, he published more than 50 papers. He presented over 60 communications at Physiological Society meetings, convened the Somatosensory Physiology Special Interest Group, served as a Committee member and was closely involved in many of the Society’s educational initiatives. These included the Society’s booklet for schools (‘Understanding Life’), a major benchmarking statement for universities starting physiology related degrees, and – with the British Pharmacological Society – vacation courses on in vivo techniques for undergraduates.

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