He holds a Personal Chair in Christian Ethics at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen.

[6] Brock plays an active role in teaching undergraduates at the University of Aberdeen, leading postgraduate seminars, and has successfully supervised thirty doctoral candidates, many of whom have published their doctoral theses as books, including Andrew Draper,[7] Scott Prather,[8] Tyler Atkinson,[9] Michael Laffin,[10] Benjamin Wall,[11] Amy J. Erickson,[12] Andrew Errington,[13] Steven Schafer,[14] Kevin Hargaden,[15] Jacob Marques Rollison,[16] Timothy Shaun Price,[17] Daniel Patterson,[18] Ross Halbach,[19] Allen Calhoun,[20] Michael Morelli,[21] and Emily Beth Hill.

[24] Along with Susan Parsons, he is the founding editor of the academic monograph series, "T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics".

[27] In 2018, he was awarded "Alumnus of the Year" by Loma Linda University,[28] being described as "a maker of social change who betters understanding of the Christian tradition.

"[29] He is regularly invited to offer plenary addresses at conferences relating to questions around disability and religion, or Christian Ethics more broadly construed.

[52] He also edited the first full-length English-language work by prominent German theologian Hans G. Ulrich, Transfigured Not Conformed: Christian Ethics in a Hermeneutic Key.