Martyn is the Head of Subject for Social, Therapies and Communities at UON. He qualified as a Physiotherapist from Keele University and took up a role as an academy physiotherapist at Aston Villa Football Club. He then moved into the NHS and completed clinical rotations before progressing into roles in intermediate care and rapid response, leading new physiotherapy provision in community rehab. This is where is passion for working with people who had experience a stroke began and he held roles at all points in the stroke pathway, ranging from hyper acute wards, rehab, early supported discharge, community rehab, outpatient clinics and long term follow up services.
Following extensive work with physiotherapy students as a clinical mentor, Martyn then moved into an assistant lecturer role at Coventry University, progressing within the team, before taking on an initial secondment as associate professor of health simulation. Leading upon many digital innovation and simulation projects during the pandemic and producing several publications.
Martyn then secured a head of subject role at University College Birmingham leading the education department across higher and further education provision. Leading a department through several industry challenges while ensuring there was high performing team, with the support required to ensure a positive student experience. This led to a role as Head of Interprofessional Learning, Simulation and Immersive Technologies across the whole university and college provision, ranging from healthcare to business.
Following relocating, Martyn joined the University of Northampton as head of subject and works to ensure a positive staff and student experience across Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Public Health, and Health & Social Care provision.
