Professor Robyn Martin
Associate Dean, Social Work & Human Services.
Details
Department: School of GUSS
Campus: City Campus Australia
robyn.martin@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0003-2737-9498
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
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 shape future social work and human service graduates to privilege lived experience. Robyn is the Associate Dean for Social Work and Human Services and Professor of Social Work.
Research fields
- 4409 Social work
- 420313 Mental health services
- 440902 Counselling, wellbeing and community services
UN sustainable development goals
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 3 Good Health and Well Being
- 5 Gender Equality
Supervisor projects
- Psilocybin Mental Health Self-Treatment: Responding to Emerging Trends
- 24 Jul 2025
- Practising leadership – developing an integrated framework for not-for-profit human services leaders
- 27 Mar 2025
- queer ecologies and collective care
- 11 Feb 2025
- Gender separated Victorian inpatients mental health units as a response to sexual violence
- 11 Mar 2021
- Domestic Violence screening in Australian Public Hospital Emergency Departments: Extent, models and impacts
- 20 Nov 2020
Teaching interests
Robyn teaches Trauma Informed Social Work Practice.
Research interests
- Homelessness and housing precarity
- Lived and living experience participation, influence and leadership
- Critical social work
- Critical mental health
- Critical trauma studies
