Scientia Professor Andrew 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 and a Registered Psychologist (Psychology Board of Australia). Andrew is recognized for his research on student motivation, engagement, learning, and achievement. His research bridges other disciplines, investigating motivation and engagement in sport, music, and work.

In 2020-2024 Elsevier/Stanford University rankings of Scopus-based citations (Ioannidis, 2024), Andrew listed in the Top 25 of the world’s 95,000+ 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., 2022). He is ranked in the top 1% of Educational Psychology on Google Scholar (h-index = 100+) and in the top 1% of all researchers on ResearchGate. He has written over 275 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 300 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 over 20 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 been recognised by his university's Postgraduate Council in its research supervisor awards.

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

In annual rankings between 2018-2024, he has been listed six times as National Research Field Leader in “Educational Psychology and Counselling” by The Australian newspaper. Since 2019, Andrew has served as 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.