Trustee of the Osteopathic Centre for Children, Emeritus Professor Martin Collins was Principal of the British School of Osteopathy from 1998 to 2005.
He is one of the leading historians of the osteopathic profession as co-founder of the National Osteopathic Archive and author of Osteopathy in Britain the First 100 years. He was by background (and still is) an entomologist, graduating with a First Class Honours Degree in Zoology, but developed an expertise in urban ecology and his first book was on this subject.
Consequential to teaching physiology to students at the British School of Osteopathy (BSO) when Senior Lecturer at the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL), he became the link person between the two institutions and was then seconded half-time to initiate research at the BSO. So inspired by osteopathy, he left PCL to study osteopathy at the BSO.