Professor Denis Martin
Professor of Rehabilitation
Professor Martin is Professor of Rehabilitation and Director of the Centre for Rehabilitation. He graduated from the University of Ulster in 1988 with a BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy; was awarded his DPhil from the University of Ulster in 1993; and received an MSc Applied Statistics from Napier University in 2000.
Before coming to Teesside in 2006 he was a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and Social Care Research at Sheffield Hallam University. Before that, Professor Martin was a Director of the Scottish Network for Chronic Pain Research and Award Coordinator of the MSc Pain at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
Professor Martin is an experienced supervisor of postgraduate degrees including >20 PhD completions. He is currently leading the Integrating physical health, mental health and social care theme of the ARC NE and is Vice Chair of the XR4Rehab Network. He has been Vice Chair of the Pain and Older People Special Interest Group of the British Pain Society and Chair of the Scientific Panel of the Charitable Trust of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy. Professor Martin has also been Chair of Pain Association Scotland, a not-for-profit organisation that provides training and support of self-managing of chronic pain.
Professor Martin’s research interests lie in long term conditions with a specific focus on persistent pain, in which he has published widely. He has been involved in leading and collaborating in projects externally funded with over £15m from bodies including the NIHR, Research Councils, UKRI, EU, the National Lotteries Charities Board, the Health Foundation and other charitable organisations.
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