Scientia Professor Andrew James Martin

Andrew Martin, BA (Hons), MEd (Hons), PhD, is Scientia Professor, Professor of Educational Psychology, and Chair of the Educational Psychology Research Group in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford. He specializes in motivation, engagement, achievement, and quantitative research methods.

Andrew is a Registered Psychologist (Psychology Board of Australia). He is recognized for psychological and educational research in achievement motivation and for the quantitative methods he brings to the study of applied phenomena. Although the bulk of his research focuses on motivation, engagement, and achievement, Andrew is also published in important cognate areas such as Aboriginal/Indigenous education, ADHD, gifted and talented, academic resilience and academic buoyancy, adaptability, goal setting, pedagogy, and teacher-student relationships. Andrew’s research also bridges other disciplines through assessing motivation and engagement in sport, music, and work.

In 2020-2022 Elsevier rankings of Scopus-based citations (Baas et al., 2021, 2022), Andrew listed in the Top 25 of the world’s 88,000+ authors indexed in Education. He also listed Top 5 in the latest 5-Yearly International Rankings of the Most Published Educational Psychologists (Fong et al., Ed Psych Rev, 2022). In 2021, The Australian newspaper identified him as 1 of only 15 Australian researchers leading the world in their discipline (Educational Psychology) based on citations to papers they published in the previous 5 years in their field’s Top 20 journals. He has written over 250 peer reviewed journal articles, over 100 peer-reviewed chapters, 3 books for parents and teachers (published in 5 languages), 2 Edited Handbooks, 1 Monograph for the British Psychological Society, 15 commissioned government reports, and over 140 publications for professional and lay audiences (e.g., teachers, parents, psychologists, counsellors). Andrew has delivered over 200 invited/keynote presentations and his work has been featured in over 500 radio, television, newspaper, newsletter, and web outlets.

Andrew has won 15 Australian Research Council (ARC; 12 grants) and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC; 3 grants) grants as well as international funding (e.g., European Commission, US Spencer Foundation, EARLI/Jacobs Foundation) and 15 government and non-government research tenders. In total, he has secured over $7 million in nationally and internationally competitive grants, government tenders, and corporate/commercial funds. He has supervised over 20 PhD students and in four separate years has won his university's Postgraduate Council Research Supervisor Award.

He is Associate Editor of British Journal of Educational Psychology and School Psychology International, Consulting Editor for Psychological Review, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Educational Psychology, serves on numerous international and national Editorial Boards (Educational Psychologist; Contemporary Educational Psychology; Learning and Individual Differences; Learning and Instruction, Journal of Experimental Education; Educational and Developmental Psychologist; Journal of Psychologists and Counsellors in Schools), and Guest Edits numerous journal Special Issues (e.g., in Contemporary Educational Psychology, British Journal of Educational Psychology, Educational Psychology).

In each year from 2018 to 2022 he has been listed as National Research Field Leader in “Educational Psychology and Counselling” by The Australian newspaper. Beginning 2019, Andrew is the Inaugural Distinguished Scholar of the New South Wales Institute for Educational Research. In 2017-2018, Andrew was appointed Fellow of the (Australian) College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists and also received the College’s Award of Distinction. In 2016, Andrew was elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. In 2013, he was elected Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. Prior to that, in 2008 Andrew received the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Raymond B. Cattell Early Career Award. Before that, Andrew was listed in The Bulletin magazine’s ‘SMART 100 Australians’ (2003). His PhD was judged the Most Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Educational Psychology by Division 15 of the American Psychological Association and also judged the Most Outstanding PhD in Education in Australia by the Australian Association for Research in Education.