Hardwick pursued postgraduate training in Montreal, Charlotte, Vancouver, and Los Angeles, first in pediatrics then in pathology, medical biochemistry and developmental physiology.

[4] He began his teaching, research, and administrative career at the University of British Columbia in 1963 in the Department of Pathology.

[3] Hardwick's research included the first description of the histopathologic implications of differential survival of Wilms' tumors to the pathogenesis of L-methionine toxicity.

He was elected as Faculty Advisor to the Medical Advisory Undergraduate Society for more than 20 consecutive two-year terms.

[12] 1986 - The University of British Columbia's first Faculty Citation Award in creating BC's Children's Hospital.