Martyn Evans

H. Martyn Evans is a Welsh academic and Professor of Philosophy of Music and Member of the School of Medicine and Health at the University of Durham. From 2002 to 2008, he was Principal of John Snow College, Durham. From 2008 to 2019, he was Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.

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

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.

He had 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) and the Royal College of Physicians. He sits on the Wellcome Trust Medical Humanities Strategy Committee and RCGP Ethics Committee.

He has authored or co-authored 30 scientific/philosophical papers.

He has a wife and two sons.