He has also published widely on the condition of the contemporary university, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s (e.g., 'Trends and Standards in British Higher Education' in "The Western University on Trial", edited by John W Chapman [University of California Press, 1983], 167-83). David Martin was Professor of Sociology at the LSE from 1971 until his retirement in 1989. He also served as Scurlock Professor of Human Values at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1986–1990. He spent research semesters at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture (now the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs [CURA]) with Peter L. Berger at Boston University in 1990 and 1999. In later years he was Visiting Professor at King's College London, Lancaster University and Liverpool Hope University. Martin received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki in 2000. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. In summer 2015, American (Baylor University Press) and Chinese (Renmin University Press) versions of "A David Martin Reader" were published. David Martin was a Methodist Local Preacher from 1953 to 1977, after which he was confirmed in the Anglican Church. In 1983 he attended Westcott House Theological College in Cambridge and became deacon in that year and priest in 1984, serving as Honorary Assistant Priest at Guildford Cathedral. In 1953 he married Daphne Sylvia Treherne. The marriage was dissolved in 1957. In 1962 he married Bernice Thompson, herself a distinguished sociologist at London University (Bedford College).