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Kacey Martin

Kacey Martin

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Email: kacey.martin@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Joanne Bryant, Emma Kirby, Chris Cunningham

Kacey Martin is a doctoral researcher, research officer, and lived experience advocate, living and working on Gadigal, Wangal, and Bedegal land. Born in Australia, Kacey is of Māori (Ngāti Pikiao) and European ancestry.

Kacey's postgraduate research takes a sociological approach to studying eating disorders, with her doctoral research focusing specifically on Māori understandings and experiences of eating disorders in Aotearoa and Australia.

Since 2018, Kacey has worked as a research assistant/officer at the University of New South Wales. In this role, she has been involved in various research projects exploring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander sexual wellbeing and relationships, youth and IUD drug use, sex worker wellbeing in decriminalised contexts, BBV stigma in CALD communities, and effective practices in public education.

Additionally, Kacey works as a First Year Advisor and Tutor for Indigenous students at Macquarie University through Walanga Muru.

As a lived experience advocate, Kacey uses her expertise to guide social and health research, services, and promotion. She currently serves on lived experience committees at The Butterfly Foundation and ACON.
  • Mental health
  • Indigenous wellbeing
  • Social stigma
  • Sex and relationships
  • Cultural sociology
  • Intersectionality

Journal papers

  • Brener, L., Vu, H., Horwitz, R., Cama, E., Martin, K., Rance, J., Okeke, S. & Bryant, J. 2024, “People like us would have no clue if the information is online’: exploring understanding and sources of hepatitis B information among Vietnamese Australians’, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, published online.
  • Bryant, J., Bolt, R., Martin, K., Beadman, M., Doyle, M., Treloar, C., Bell, S., Murphy, D., Newman, C., Browne, A., Aggleton, P., Beetson, K., Brooks, M., Wilms, J., Leece, B., Stanbury, L., Botfield, J., Davis, B. & Graham, S 2023, ‘Yarning as a method for building sexual wellbeing among urban Aboriginal young people in Australia’, Culture, Health & Sexuality, vol. 26, no. 7.
  • Martin, K., Bryant, J., Beetson, K., Wilms, J., Briggs, T., Treloar, C. & Newman, C 2023, 'Normalising sex and resisting shame: young Aboriginal women's views on sex and relationships in an urban setting in Australia', Journal of Youth Studies, published online.
  • Graham, S., Martin, K., Gardner, K., Beadman, M., Doyle, M., Bolt, R., Murphy, D., Newman, C., Bell, S., Treloar, C., Browne, A., Aggleton, P., Beetson, K., Brooks, M., Botfield, J., Davis, B., Wilms, J., Leece, B., Stanbury, L. & Bryant, J. 2023, 'Aboriginal young people's perspectives and experiences of accessing sexual health services and sex education in Australia: a qualitative study', Global Public Health, vol. 18, no. 1.
  • Graham, S., Blaxland, M., Bolt R., Beadman, M., Gardner, K., Martin, K., Doyle, M., Beetson, K., Murphy, D., Bell, S., Newman, C. & Bryant, J. 2023, ‘Aboriginal peoples' perspectives about COVID-19 vaccines and motivations to seek vaccination: a qualitative study', BMJ Global Health, vol. 7, no. 7.
  • Graham, S., Martin, K., Beadman, M., Doyle, M., & Bolt, R. 2022, ‘Our relationships, our culture, our community – Aboriginal young men’s views about relationships in the ‘Fostering Sexual Wellbeing of Aboriginal Young People’ study’, Culture, Health & Sexuality, vol. 25, no. 3.
  • Bryant, J., Bolt, R., Botfield, J. R., Martin, K., Doyle, M., Murphy, D., Graham, S., Newman, C. E., Bell, S., Treloar, C., Browne, A. J., & Aggleton, A. 2021, ‘Beyond deficit: ‘strengths-based approaches’ in Indigenous health research’, Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 3, no. 6.

Media articles

  • Martin, K., Gardner, K., Bryant, J., Bolt, R., Doyle, M., Murphy, D., Graham, S., & Beadman, M. 2020, ‘’What we do well’: strengths-based research about Aboriginal young people’s sexual wellbeing in Western Sydney’, HIV Australia, Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations, Sydney.

Conference presentations

  • Bolt, R., Bryant, J., & Martin, K. 2019, ‘Employing the peer-interview method to engage urban-based Indigenous Australian young peoples in conversations about identity’, TASA Conference 2019, Sydney, 26 November 2019.
  • Martin, K. & Wilms, J. 2022, ‘Agency and the positive role of community and culture in fostering sexual wellbeing for Aboriginal young women’, ASHM Sexual Health Conference 2023, Sunshine Coast, 1 September 2023.