Kevin Turner

Kevin Turner was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon in Bournemouth, UK, in 2007 and is a Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a double first-class degree in medical sciences and he completed his clinical training at the University of Oxford. He then trained in Urology in Oxford, Edinburgh, and Melbourne. His clinical interests are in urological cancer, particularly robotic pelvic surgery. He was elected an Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England whilst still a trainee, was awarded the European Association of Urology Thesis Award for his research in angiogenesis in renal cancer, and is co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Urological Surgery. In 2015 he co-founded the Bournemouth Surgeon Wellbeing Research Team with colleagues in the Department of Psychology at Bournemouth University. The team aims to generate original data concerning the impact of adverse events on surgeons and seeks to investigate novel ways of preparing surgeons for adverse events and supporting them afterwards. Results of the team’s national survey have been published in the British Journal of Surgery / BJS Open , an RCT of the effectiveness of a resilience training intervention for surgical trainees was published in BMC Surgery in 2025, and in 2020 (in conjunction with RCS England) the team chaired the multidisciplinary panel that wrote the RCS Good Practice Guide “Supporting surgeons after adverse events.” This latter work led to SUPPORT – a multi-site improvement collaborative of hospitals in the UK and Ireland with the aim of enabling participant hospitals to design, deliver, sustain, and evaluate peer support for surgeons. SUPPORT-1 was completed in March 2025 and SUPPORT-2 is due to start in 2026.