About Associate Professor Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin, BA (Hons), MEd (Hons), PhD, MAPS, is a Registered Educational and Child Psychologist and Research-only Associate Professor specializing in motivation, engagement, achievement, and quantitative research methods.
Andrew is recognized for his high quality and practical application of evidence-based research and for the advanced and cutting-edge quantitative methods he brings to the study of key educational phenomena. Although the bulk of his research focuses on motivation, engagement, and achievement, Andrew is also published in important cognate areas such as boys' education, gifted and talented, academic resilience and academic buoyancy, personal bests, pedagogy, parenting, teacher-student relationships, and Aboriginal education. Andrew’s research also bridges other disciplines through assessing motivation and engagement in sport, music, and work. Andrew has written over 130 peer reviewed journal articles, chapters, and papers in published conference proceedings, written 2 books for parents and teachers (published in 5 languages) with another forthcoming, compiled 12 commissioned government reports, is Associate Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology, is reviewer for over 20 academic journals (most of them international), is assessor/reviewer for numerous overseas research councils and institutions, has written over 45 articles/reprints for professional and general readerships (eg. teachers, psychologists, counselors, parents), presented over 100 invited/keynote presentations and conference papers, conducted workshops in over 100 schools, won numerous prestigious Australian Research Council grants, and in recent years has conducted over 150 radio, television, and newspaper interviews.