Associate Professor Robyn Martin

Position: Associate Dean, Social Work & Human Services

College / Portfolio: Design and Social Context

School / Department: DSC|School of GUSS

Phone: +61399251397

Email: robyn.martin@rmit.edu.au

Campus: City Campus

Contact me about: Research supervision

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2737-9498

Overview

Robyn Martin commenced Social Work practice in 1990. Since that time, she has practised, taught and researched in trauma, violence, abuse, homelessness and critical mental health. Robyn is particularly interested in creating the conditions for the meaningful involvement of service users and their supporters in service delivery, research and teaching. She has co-led university-based projects which bring lived experience educators into the academy and in turn, influencing future health and human service graduates to value lived experience. Robyn is a critical social work academic and her research and teaching is informed by post-structuralist, feminist and intersectional theories and concepts.

Qualifications

BSW (Curtin)

MSocSci (ECU)

PhD (RMIT)

Industry Experience

Current and Recent Projects

2022: Black Rhinos: A Primary Prevention Program; VicHealth. $199,240. Team: Martin, Egan, Cunningham, Goff, O’Keefe, Kuyini.

2022: Family Carer Training Program: Tandem. $170,000. Team: Nipperess, David, Martin.

2022: Voices from the Margins: PlaceLab Melbourne. RMIT University. $20,000. Team: Martin and Martin (S).

2021: Experiences of police apprehension for psychosocial disability: a co-designed investigation. National Disability Research Program. $125,000. Team: Randall, Maylea, Hamilton, Nguyen, Martin, Thomas, Bashfield.

2020: Evaluation of the integrated chronic care program programs in North West Melbourne by NWMPHN. Funded by NEAMI and Co-Health ($95,000). Team: Maylea, Martin.

2019-2020: Enhancing the coordination of housing supports for individuals leaving institutional settings. Funded by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute for $536,766 ($124,070 for project I lead: Accommodation Transition: Improving Housing Outcomes for Young People Leaving Out of Home Care). [Category 1]. Team: Martin, Cordier, Jau, Randall, Thoreson, Ferrante, Chavulak, Morris, Liddiard, Mendes, Johnson, Chung.

2019: Evaluation of Alternatives to Suicide group, DISCHARGED. Funded by WA Mental Health Commission for $5000 [Category 2]. Team: Martin.

2019: Critical literature synthesis on community mental health support. Funded by Western Australian Association of Mental Health for $10,000. [Category 3]. Team: Martin.

2018-2019: Increasing the capacity of services to build safety in families reunifying after experiencing family and domestic violence. Funded by Department of Social Security for $59,000 [Category 2]. Team: Fernandes, Chung, Martin.

2018-2020: Women’s use of force: Funded by Department of Social Security for $56,000 [Category 2]. Team: Chung & Martin.

2017-2020: Transitioning from out of home care: A longitudinal population-based study. Funded by ARC Linkage, funded for $710,000 [Category 1]. Team: Chung, Cordier, Ferrante, Mendes, Thoresen, Martin, O’Donnell.

2016-2017: Critical literature review of the iatrogenic effects of antipsychotic drugs. Funded by Mental Health Australia for $15,586 [Category 3}. Team: Martin & Dorozenko.

Publications

Jau, J.,Mendes, P.,Chavulak, J.,Martin, R. (2022). The Housing Pathways and Experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Youth as They Transition from out of Home Care in Victoria and Western Australia In: International Journal on Child Maltreatment., 5, 319 - 336
East, L.,Dorozenko, K.,Martin, R. (2021). The construction of people in suicide prevention documents In: Death Studies, 45, 182 - 190
Duncanson, K.,Gillieatt, S.,Mahboub, L.,Martin, R. (2021). Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision: A Scoping Review In: Australian Social Work, , 1 - 13
Cordier, R.,Martin, R. (2021). The Challenges of Defining and Measuring Social Inclusion In: Handbook of Social Inclusion Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences, Springer, Switzerland
Doherty, M.,McGuire, A.,Martin, R.,Gillieatt, S. (2021). Disrupting ‘Expertise’: Learnings from a Grassroots Lived Experience and Social Work Academic Partnership In: Advances in Social Work and Welfare Education, 22, 39 - 55
Johnson, G.,Martin, R. (2021). Accommodating transition: improving housing outcomes for young people leaving OHC In: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Melbourne
Dorozenko, K.,Martin, R.,Gillieatt, S.,Milbourn, B. (2020). ‘Learning to re-create your life’: an evaluation of a residential mental health recovery program In: Advances in Mental Health, 18, 143 - 155
Whitehorne-Smith, P.,Burns, S.,Milbourn, B.,Abel, W.,Martin, R. (2020). Cross- sectional mixed- methods study protocol exploring the enablers and barriers for people with severe and enduring mental illness in Jamaica when accessing healthcare for chronic physical illness In: BMJ Open, 10, 1 - 8
Martin, R.,Fernandes, C.,Taylor, C.,Crow, A.,Headland, D.,Shaw, N.,Zammit, S. (2019). “We Don’t Want to Live Like This”: The Lived Experience of Dislocation, Poor Health, and Homelessness for Western Australian Aboriginal People In: Qualitative Health Research, 29, 159 - 172
Gillieatt, S.,Martin, R.,Dorozenko, K.,Munro, A. (2018). Evaluation of a West Australian residential mental health respite service In: Health and Social Care in the Community, 26, 442 - 450

Supervisor Projects

1 PhD Completions1 PhD Current Supervisions

Grants

Black Rhinos: A primary prevention approach. Funded by: VicHealth - Competitive from (2022 to 2024)
Experiences of police apprehension for psychosocial disability: a co-designed investigation (administered by University of Melbourne). Funded by: National Disability Research Partnership grants 2021 onwards from (2021 to 2022)
Evaluation of the Integrated Chronic Care Programs in North West Melbourne. Funded by: Neami - Contract from (2020 to 2022)