Paul R. Martin, MD
Innovation Professor
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University
President, Australian Psychological Society

Paul R. Martin is currently the Innovation Professor (Health & Clinical Psychology), at RMIT University.

He completed his undergraduate training at the University of Bristol, his clinical training through the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority and British Psychological Society, and his doctorate in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He held his first staff position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Oxford, prior to moving to Australia in 1979 to take up a Lectureship in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Monash University. He subsequently taught at the University of Western Australia for 16 years before being appointed Professor and Head of the School of Psychology at the University of New England in 1996.

His research program has been supported by a series of grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council. His publications include seven books, some on specialised issues such as headaches and postnatal depression, and some on broader topics such as behaviour therapy, behavioural medicine and clinical psychology.

He introduced professional doctorates at both UWA and UNE. In addition to his research and teaching, he has been a practising psychologist since completing his training in the mid 1970s. He was elected to a Fellowship of the Australian Psychological Society in 1993, and received a Centenary Medal for ‘services to Australian society and medicine’, in 2003.

He was President of the Australian Behaviour Modification Association from 1984 to 1985, and Director of the Adoption Research and Counselling Service at UWA from 1986 to 1991. He was Director of Science of the APS from 1997 to 2000, and has been President of the APS since 2000.