Martyn Evans (academic)

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Professor H. Martyn Evans is a Welsh academic and Professor in Humanities in Medicine at the University of Durham.^[1]

Career

Professor Evans started his career at the University of Wales, Swansea, where he became Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Philosophy and Healthcare.^[2] He has a doctorate in the Philosophy of Music.^[3]

He joined Durham in 2002 where he became the first Principal of John Snow College, in 2008 he became Principal of Trevelyan College. His current academic positions include being the Co-Director Centre for Medical Humanities at the School of Medicine and Health as well as the Centre for the Medical Humanities and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute.^[1]

He has been a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney. He is currently a visiting Professor at the University of Otago and joint editor of the Medical Humanities journal. He is an Honorary Fellow of Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP). He sits of the Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Strategy Committee and RCGP Ethics Committee.^[1]

He has authored or co-authored 30 scientific/philosophical papers.^[1]

He has a wife and two sons.^[1]

Controversy

In September 2010, Evans made the national headlines as he protested vehemently over a penalty train fare concerning a journey between Birmingham and Durham.^[4] After being contacted by a regional newspaper (the story later being taken up by the national press,^[5]) East Coast waived the penalty as a 'goodwill gesture'.^[6] Evans was later featured in an episode of the BBC1 daytime show 'Rip Off Britain'.^[7]

Bibliography

Symptom: Medical Humanities Companion Volume One", Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2008 (co-editor/co-author)
Diagnosis: Medical Humanities Companion Volume Two", Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2010 (co-editor/co-author)
A Decent Proposal: Ethical Review of Clinical Research, Chicester: John Wiley & Sons, 1996 (co-author)
Listening to Music, London: Macmillan, 1990 (sole author)
Philosophy for Medicine: applications in a clinical context, Oxford: Radcliffe Medical Press, 2004(co-editor)
Medical Humanities. “Philosophy and the medical humanities”, London: BMJ Books, 2001 (co-editor)
Critical Reflections on Medical Ethics, Connecticut USA: JAI Publishers, 1998 (editor)

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References

Academic offices
Preceded by New position	Principal of John Snow College, Durham 2002-2008	Succeeded by Carolyn Summerbell
Preceded by Nigel Martin	Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham 2008–present	Succeeded by incumbent

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Name	Evans, Martyn
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Short description	Professor in Medical Humanities
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