Robyn Martins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3886667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robyn Martins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Martins |
| SIGNATURE | MARTINS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2737-9498 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Healthcare Access Experiences of People in Jamaica with Co-Morbid Serious Mental Illness and Chronic Physical Illness and Their Caregivers
Globally, people with serious mental illnesses (SMIs) experience significant challenges with healthcare access. This increases their risk of developing chronic physical illnesses (CPIs) and results in negative health outcomes and shorter life expectancy. The Jamaican public mental health service has undertaken several transformations to increase the accessibility of mental health services and improve outcomes for people with mental illnesses. Des…
Participation and access for ‘equity’ students in social work and human services higher education
Massification, broadening participation, and increasing student diversity are key objectives in higher education (HE). Yet, there is limited definitional clarity with terms, such as equity, access, and participation, and limited evaluation of strategies. The aspiration to promote educational opportunity regardless of socioeconomic or cultural background, geographic location, race, age, gender, or dis/ability is established. Some discipline areas …
Housing responses for older women who have experienced homelessness
Unsettling social work education through lived experience leadership
This article seeks to extend the long, rich history of lived experience leadership by considering what such leadership looks like within social work education. We position lived experience leadership in the academy as emergent and imagine it disrupting and reshaping elitist academic practices (Higgins and Lenette 2024a). In universities, this form of leadership is collaborative and can be formal or informal; it involves those with lived and livin…
Imagining Ontological Security
This article explores the potential of co-design to facilitate an imagining of ontological security when designing safe, long-term and affordable housing with women who have experienced homelessness. Drawing on Blomkamp’s (2018) representation of co-design as process, principles, and practical tools, we critically and reflexively examine the relational, dialogic and practical approach we took to research with women who had experienced homelessnes…
Tell me a story
The integration of service user perspectives in social work student supervision
Social work students' experience of supervision during practice learning or field education has a significant influence on their development. The value of service user participation in social work education, practice and research is increasingly acknowledged, however there is little consideration of its role in the supervision of students. Similarly, while service users are obvious stakeholders in practice education, this is seldom recognized. Th…
Australian Students’, Educators’, and Practitioners’ Experiences of Modified Field Education Standards During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Long-standing concerns about the sustainability of social work field education requirements were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) implemented revised Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS) during the pandemic as existing standards had become unworkable. The revised ASWEAS (during 2020 and 2021) allowed greater flexibility regarding how placements could be delivered, enabling student…
Re-Envisioning Field Education in Australian Social Work to Combat Placement Poverty
In Australia, pressure is mounting from multiple stakeholders for a full review of the national social work education standards for field education as evidence grows about compulsory, unpaid placements exacerbating student poverty and the related adverse consequences for students’ learning and well-being. This article reports on the findings of an Australian nation-wide qualitative and quantitative survey that explored social work students’, educ…
Bearing Witness
Social work student supervision during field education is a mandated requirement where students review their activities and learning in the workplace with field educators (FEs). Inevitably service users will be discussed in supervision but will have little or no opportunity to represent their perspectives during sessions. In order to explore how service user perspectives might be integrated into supervision, this qualitative study examined the pa…
I was having an anxiety attack and they pepper sprayed me
Police attendance in mental health contexts is often traumatic for the person in crisis, their family and first responders. Existing literature on police involvement in mental health responses tends to focus on police perspectives. Scholarship exploring lived experience perspectives is limited, yet is crucial for informing programmes, policies and reforms. We present findings from one of the first projects co-produced with people with lived exper…
Learning About Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision
While the participation of service users in social work education and practice has gained momentum recently, little attention has been paid to the implications for student supervision in field education or practice learning. This scoping review examines the nature of, and extent to which, international literature recognises service users in social work student supervision. Sixty-seven relevant abstracts that potentially linked service users to so…
The Long Shadow of Intimate Partner Violence
Ongoing health issues influence the postseparation lives of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study identified associations between health following IPV and demographic, housing, employment, and social participation factors. Survivors of IPV in Australia were surveyed. Logistic regression assessed factors of interest with physical and mental health conditions. Six hundred and fifty-eight women participated. Physical health issues…
An analysis of the intersecting factors and needs that informed the experiences of young people transitioning from out of home care in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia
Young people transitioning from out-of-home care (often called care leavers) are globally a disadvantaged group who can be particularly vulnerable to experiences of housing instability and homelessness. This qualitative study, based on interviews with 34 care leavers in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia, examined their transition experiences and outcomes with a specific focus on access to stable and affordable housing. Our s…
It Helped Me Open My Eyes”
Working from a trauma informed lens is increasingly recognized as a vital component of social work practice, as is learning from and incorporating lived experience into one's approach to practice. Further, the critical and feminist informed interrogation of dominant ideas around professional power and expertise within social work practice is necessary in learning and teaching about trauma. This conceptual article describes an integrated approach …
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Participation and involvement of service users, carers, and families into the design, delivery, evaluation, and development of mental health policy and services is now a standard expectation. As social workers are employed in mental health settings, it is vital that graduates understand and ethically engage with mental health consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and family (CSX + F) in a meaningful and authentic manner. We argue this extends to fos…
The construction of people in suicide prevention documents
Suicide is a significant issue worldwide and despite comprehensive prevention activities, suicide stigma remains. To explore this issue, we used critical discourse analysis to examine how Australian suicide prevention documents ( n = 8) constructed people living with thoughts of suicide. We found that risk and biomedical discourses dominated, with people experiencing suicide ideation constructed as dangerous, different, lacking coping skills, and…
We Don't Want to Live Like This
Many policy interventions have attempted to address the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians1; however, sustained improvement in social, cultural, physical, and emotional well-being is not evident. This disadvantage is compounded by paternalistic practices which do not promote Aboriginal self-determination or empowerment. This article presents the lived experience and voice of Aboriginal Australians spending time in parks in Perth, W…
Evaluation of a West Australian residential mental health respite service
Family members continue to be the predominant providers of support, care and accommodation for loved ones with mental health issues, and empirical studies suggest that accessing mental health respite can be helpful for both carers and consumers. However, the availability of, and access to, this respite in Australia is far from optimal. Major issues have also been identified such as low utilisation, the inappropriate and inflexible nature of servi…
Family inclusion in mental health services
BACKGROUND: Contemporary mental health policies require family inclusion in the design, implementation and evaluation of services. MATERIALS: This scoping review considers the factors in mental health practice which either mediate or promote family inclusion. A wide range of factors are reported to obstruct family inclusion, while a smaller number of studies report that meaningful family inclusion rests on a partnership approach which values the …
Learning from Mental Health Lived Experience and the Influence on Students’ Practice
This study explored how learning from mental health lived experience influenced Australian social work students’ practice during their first fieldwork placement. Involvement of mental health consumers in social work education is gaining momentum, yet little is known about how this type of learning informs students’ practice. Ten social work students participated in semistructured interviews and one focus group. Findings suggest that learning from…
Social Network Analysis and Social Work Inquiry
Understanding and positively impacting social networks is core to social work practice and research. As a research method, social network analysis provides an important mechanism for mapping various types of networks as well as the relationships and exchanges between network actors. This has relevance to Australian human and health services given the social policy context that currently emphasises and requires improvements in the integration of s…
Assessment in Child Care
The book's Introduction begins by quoting ‘Assessing is where theory, evidence and professional judgement collide’, which is a fair picture of the nineteen chapters that follow. The first (2003) edition provided an overview and critique of what was then a relatively new Assessment Framework. Ten years on, the second edition incorporates new research, national development updates and reappraisals of practice such as the Munro Review of Child Prote…
We Don't Want to Live Like This
Many policy interventions have attempted to address the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians1; however, sustained improvement in social, cultural, physical, and emotional well-being is not evident. This disadvantage is compounded by paternalistic practices which do not promote Aboriginal self-determination or empowerment. This article presents the lived experience and voice of Aboriginal Australians spending time in parks in Perth, W…
Learning from Mental Health Lived Experience and the Influence on Students’ Practice
This study explored how learning from mental health lived experience influenced Australian social work students’ practice during their first fieldwork placement. Involvement of mental health consumers in social work education is gaining momentum, yet little is known about how this type of learning informs students’ practice. Ten social work students participated in semistructured interviews and one focus group. Findings suggest that learning from…
The construction of people in suicide prevention documents
Suicide is a significant issue worldwide and despite comprehensive prevention activities, suicide stigma remains. To explore this issue, we used critical discourse analysis to examine how Australian suicide prevention documents ( n = 8) constructed people living with thoughts of suicide. We found that risk and biomedical discourses dominated, with people experiencing suicide ideation constructed as dangerous, different, lacking coping skills, and…
Australian Students’, Educators’, and Practitioners’ Experiences of Modified Field Education Standards During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Long-standing concerns about the sustainability of social work field education requirements were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) implemented revised Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS) during the pandemic as existing standards had become unworkable. The revised ASWEAS (during 2020 and 2021) allowed greater flexibility regarding how placements could be delivered, enabling student…
Re-Envisioning Field Education in Australian Social Work to Combat Placement Poverty
In Australia, pressure is mounting from multiple stakeholders for a full review of the national social work education standards for field education as evidence grows about compulsory, unpaid placements exacerbating student poverty and the related adverse consequences for students’ learning and well-being. This article reports on the findings of an Australian nation-wide qualitative and quantitative survey that explored social work students’, educ…
An analysis of the intersecting factors and needs that informed the experiences of young people transitioning from out of home care in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia
Young people transitioning from out-of-home care (often called care leavers) are globally a disadvantaged group who can be particularly vulnerable to experiences of housing instability and homelessness. This qualitative study, based on interviews with 34 care leavers in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia, examined their transition experiences and outcomes with a specific focus on access to stable and affordable housing. Our s…
It Helped Me Open My Eyes”
Working from a trauma informed lens is increasingly recognized as a vital component of social work practice, as is learning from and incorporating lived experience into one's approach to practice. Further, the critical and feminist informed interrogation of dominant ideas around professional power and expertise within social work practice is necessary in learning and teaching about trauma. This conceptual article describes an integrated approach …
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Participation and involvement of service users, carers, and families into the design, delivery, evaluation, and development of mental health policy and services is now a standard expectation. As social workers are employed in mental health settings, it is vital that graduates understand and ethically engage with mental health consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and family (CSX + F) in a meaningful and authentic manner. We argue this extends to fos…
Social Network Analysis and Social Work Inquiry
Understanding and positively impacting social networks is core to social work practice and research. As a research method, social network analysis provides an important mechanism for mapping various types of networks as well as the relationships and exchanges between network actors. This has relevance to Australian human and health services given the social policy context that currently emphasises and requires improvements in the integration of s…
Imagining Ontological Security
This article explores the potential of co-design to facilitate an imagining of ontological security when designing safe, long-term and affordable housing with women who have experienced homelessness. Drawing on Blomkamp’s (2018) representation of co-design as process, principles, and practical tools, we critically and reflexively examine the relational, dialogic and practical approach we took to research with women who had experienced homelessnes…
Learning About Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
A Culturally Humble Approach to Designing a Sports-Based Youth Development Program With African-Australian Community
This article draws on the concept of cultural humility, to describe and analyze a decolonizing approach to co-designing a primary prevention basketball program for young African-Australian people in Melbourne, Australia. We explore the potential for genuine collaboration and power-sharing with a culturally diverse community through collaboratively developing the co-design process and resultant program design. This article highlights the central r…
Evaluation of a West Australian residential mental health respite service
Family members continue to be the predominant providers of support, care and accommodation for loved ones with mental health issues, and empirical studies suggest that accessing mental health respite can be helpful for both carers and consumers. However, the availability of, and access to, this respite in Australia is far from optimal. Major issues have also been identified such as low utilisation, the inappropriate and inflexible nature of servi…
Diverging Common Law — Invercargill goes to the Privy Council
‘The definitive version is available at: www3.interscience.wiley.com.’ Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2230.00068 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Choosing a Help-Giver
In Exp. 1 20 male and 20 female undergraduates responded to questionnaire items requiring choice between two types of advisors for help in solving two types of problems. Subjects chose either a lower- or upper-classman as the help-giver when the hypothetical problem was either related to personal adjustment or academics. Subjects preferred younger advisors for personal problems and older advisors for academic problems. 20 undergraduates with sibl…
The present and the future of Aids and tuberculosis in Illinois
The relation between the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis (TB) was examined by matching the Illinois AIDS and TB registries. The match group was examined and compared with patients with only one disease by race, method of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission, site of tuberculous disease, radiographic findings, and results of Mantoux tests. The time of TB diagnosis was centrally distributed around the time of …
Categories of Negligence and Duties of Care
Defective Premises — the Empire Strikes Back
Diverging Common Law — Invercargill goes to the Privy Council
‘The definitive version is available at: www3.interscience.wiley.com.’ Copyright Blackwell Publishing. DOI: 10.1111/1468-2230.00068 [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
Implementing Public Health Policy and Practice within a Legal Framework
This paper addresses the implications of cultural and religious beliefs and behaviours for the imposition of population-based health policies, and for law that delivers these policies. In particular, the paper addresses perceptions of health risk in recognition of the importance of risk assessment as a public health tool. In a public health emergency, to what extent should public health law impose public health interventions which might offend in…
Pandemic influenza control in Europe and the constraints resulting from incoherent public health laws
These differences could create problems for European strategies if an evolving influenza pandemic results in more serious public health challenges or, indeed, if a novel disease other than influenza emerges with pandemic potential. There is insufficient understanding across Europe of the role and importance of law in pandemic planning. States need to build capacity in public health law to support disease prevention and control policies. Our resea…
Assessment in Child Care
The book's Introduction begins by quoting ‘Assessing is where theory, evidence and professional judgement collide’, which is a fair picture of the nineteen chapters that follow. The first (2003) edition provided an overview and critique of what was then a relatively new Assessment Framework. Ten years on, the second edition incorporates new research, national development updates and reappraisals of practice such as the Munro Review of Child Prote…
Social Network Analysis and Social Work Inquiry
Understanding and positively impacting social networks is core to social work practice and research. As a research method, social network analysis provides an important mechanism for mapping various types of networks as well as the relationships and exchanges between network actors. This has relevance to Australian human and health services given the social policy context that currently emphasises and requires improvements in the integration of s…
Learning from Mental Health Lived Experience and the Influence on Students’ Practice
This study explored how learning from mental health lived experience influenced Australian social work students’ practice during their first fieldwork placement. Involvement of mental health consumers in social work education is gaining momentum, yet little is known about how this type of learning informs students’ practice. Ten social work students participated in semistructured interviews and one focus group. Findings suggest that learning from…
Family inclusion in mental health services
BACKGROUND: Contemporary mental health policies require family inclusion in the design, implementation and evaluation of services. MATERIALS: This scoping review considers the factors in mental health practice which either mediate or promote family inclusion. A wide range of factors are reported to obstruct family inclusion, while a smaller number of studies report that meaningful family inclusion rests on a partnership approach which values the …
Evaluation of a West Australian residential mental health respite service
Family members continue to be the predominant providers of support, care and accommodation for loved ones with mental health issues, and empirical studies suggest that accessing mental health respite can be helpful for both carers and consumers. However, the availability of, and access to, this respite in Australia is far from optimal. Major issues have also been identified such as low utilisation, the inappropriate and inflexible nature of servi…
The construction of people in suicide prevention documents
Suicide is a significant issue worldwide and despite comprehensive prevention activities, suicide stigma remains. To explore this issue, we used critical discourse analysis to examine how Australian suicide prevention documents ( n = 8) constructed people living with thoughts of suicide. We found that risk and biomedical discourses dominated, with people experiencing suicide ideation constructed as dangerous, different, lacking coping skills, and…
We Don't Want to Live Like This
Many policy interventions have attempted to address the entrenched disadvantage of Aboriginal Australians1; however, sustained improvement in social, cultural, physical, and emotional well-being is not evident. This disadvantage is compounded by paternalistic practices which do not promote Aboriginal self-determination or empowerment. This article presents the lived experience and voice of Aboriginal Australians spending time in parks in Perth, W…
It Helped Me Open My Eyes”
Working from a trauma informed lens is increasingly recognized as a vital component of social work practice, as is learning from and incorporating lived experience into one's approach to practice. Further, the critical and feminist informed interrogation of dominant ideas around professional power and expertise within social work practice is necessary in learning and teaching about trauma. This conceptual article describes an integrated approach …
A Program for Valuing Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Participation and involvement of service users, carers, and families into the design, delivery, evaluation, and development of mental health policy and services is now a standard expectation. As social workers are employed in mental health settings, it is vital that graduates understand and ethically engage with mental health consumers, survivors, ex-patients, and family (CSX + F) in a meaningful and authentic manner. We argue this extends to fos…
Service Users in Social Work Student Supervision
While the participation of service users in social work education and practice has gained momentum recently, little attention has been paid to the implications for student supervision in field education or practice learning. This scoping review examines the nature of, and extent to which, international literature recognises service users in social work student supervision. Sixty-seven relevant abstracts that potentially linked service users to so…
The Long Shadow of Intimate Partner Violence
Ongoing health issues influence the postseparation lives of survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). This study identified associations between health following IPV and demographic, housing, employment, and social participation factors. Survivors of IPV in Australia were surveyed. Logistic regression assessed factors of interest with physical and mental health conditions. Six hundred and fifty-eight women participated. Physical health issues…
An analysis of the intersecting factors and needs that informed the experiences of young people transitioning from out of home care in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia
Young people transitioning from out-of-home care (often called care leavers) are globally a disadvantaged group who can be particularly vulnerable to experiences of housing instability and homelessness. This qualitative study, based on interviews with 34 care leavers in the Australian states of Victoria and Western Australia, examined their transition experiences and outcomes with a specific focus on access to stable and affordable housing. Our s…
The integration of service user perspectives in social work student supervision
Social work students' experience of supervision during practice learning or field education has a significant influence on their development. The value of service user participation in social work education, practice and research is increasingly acknowledged, however there is little consideration of its role in the supervision of students. Similarly, while service users are obvious stakeholders in practice education, this is seldom recognized. Th…
Australian Students’, Educators’, and Practitioners’ Experiences of Modified Field Education Standards During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Long-standing concerns about the sustainability of social work field education requirements were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) implemented revised Education and Accreditation Standards (ASWEAS) during the pandemic as existing standards had become unworkable. The revised ASWEAS (during 2020 and 2021) allowed greater flexibility regarding how placements could be delivered, enabling student…
Re-Envisioning Field Education in Australian Social Work to Combat Placement Poverty
In Australia, pressure is mounting from multiple stakeholders for a full review of the national social work education standards for field education as evidence grows about compulsory, unpaid placements exacerbating student poverty and the related adverse consequences for students’ learning and well-being. This article reports on the findings of an Australian nation-wide qualitative and quantitative survey that explored social work students’, educ…
Bearing Witness
Social work student supervision during field education is a mandated requirement where students review their activities and learning in the workplace with field educators (FEs). Inevitably service users will be discussed in supervision but will have little or no opportunity to represent their perspectives during sessions. In order to explore how service user perspectives might be integrated into supervision, this qualitative study examined the pa…
I was having an anxiety attack and they pepper sprayed me
Police attendance in mental health contexts is often traumatic for the person in crisis, their family and first responders. Existing literature on police involvement in mental health responses tends to focus on police perspectives. Scholarship exploring lived experience perspectives is limited, yet is crucial for informing programmes, policies and reforms. We present findings from one of the first projects co-produced with people with lived exper…
Learning About Mental Health Lived Experience in Social Work Education
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Social Work (12 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (11 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Mental Health and Patient Involvement (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Medical education (7 works)