Mobile: | 0435 084 971 |
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Email: | martin.jones@ecu.edu.au |
Campus: | South West |
Martin is a Professor of Nursing and Associate Dean Regional in the School of Nursing and Midwifery located in the South-West of Western Australia, based in Bunbury.
Martin has held National Health Service (NHS) leadership roles in the United Kingdom (UK); serving diverse and under-served communities in inner-city London and its outer boroughs. He has held National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) grants in the UK and collaborated successfully on research with academics from the UK, Australia, China, and the European Union.
In two of Martin's previous UK roles, he was responsible for a budget of £200M that delivered a safe, effective, and quality nursing service. Since arriving in regional Australia over a decade ago, Martin has been part of a University Department of Rural Health leadership team which have doubled their rural health student placement activity, augmented their interprofessional educational activity to support rural students, increased the number and quality of their research outputs in regional South Australia and designed new innovative educational models for the existing rural health workforce.
In his work with patients/service users, families, and healthcare workers, Martin has undertaken randomized controlled trials, and systematic reviews, and tested formulated hypotheses. These programs of research have generated over $5M in research grant funding. Funding sources have been with partners from the European Union, Primary Health Networks, the Commonwealth, and local community partners located in rural and remote Australia.
Martin has published over 100 journal articles and is an Associate Editor for the Australian Journal of Rural Health. Martin has supervised 3 PhD students to completion; and has taken a leadership role in increasing access to low intensity psychosocial interventions for depression through developing evidence-based clinical skills training for diverse groups of healthcare workers.
In 2020, Martin developed a holistic, online, mental health skills training for people living with common mental health conditions. In Australia, he has collaborated to increase clinical trial activity in partnership with regional communities by developing a portfolio of clinical trials in collaboration with the Australian Tele Trial Program (ATP). In the UK, Martin initiated a program of research aimed at understanding the role of Mental Health Nurses (MHN) who prescribe mental health medication. He was also part of a team which completed a program of research which developed and evaluated a novel intervention to improve the physical health of people with a serious mental health illness (SMI). The Health Improvement Profile (HIP) for people with a SMI can be found at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2850.2009.01375.x