In my PhD (Bristol University, 1983) I used ion-sensitive microelectrodes to investigate pH regulation in snail neurones, supervised by Dr RC Thomas.. In 1990 I became a temporary lecturer in Physiology, Bristol, and two years later was awarded a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellowship to investigate the mechanism of efferent inhibition in cochlear outer hair cells. This has been my principal research area ever since. I was appointed as a lecturer on the Neuroscience course at Keele in its first year, 1996, and became Programme Director (2002-2013). I was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Physiology between 2004 and 2011. I have recently been a trustee and member of Council of the Physiological Society (2011-2015) and was chair the Membership and Grants Committee for most of this period

Darbon P, Wright DJ, Evans MG. 2011. Conductance properties of the acetylcholine receptor current of guinea pig outer hair cells. J Assoc Res Otolaryngol, vol. 12(1), 59-70. doi> Furness DN, Hackney CM, Evans MG. 2010. Localisation of the mechanotransducer channels in mammalian cochlear hair cells provides clues to their gating. J Physiol, vol. 588(Pt 5), 765-772. doi> link> Evans MG and Fettiplace R. 2009. MEASUREMENT OF OUTER HAIR CELL ELECTROMOTILITY USING A FAST VOLTAGE CLAMP. CONCEPTS AND CHALLENGES IN THE BIOPHYSICS OF HEARING (pp. 400-402). link> doi> Beurg M, Evans MG, Hackney CM, Fettiplace R. 2006. A large-conductance calcium-selective mechanotransducer channel in mammalian cochlear hair cells. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE, vol. 26(43), 10992-11000. link> doi> Evans MG and Kros CJ. 2006. The cochlea - new insights into the conversion of sound into electrical signals. doi>