Rate My Professor Jen Martin

Transitioning to science communication education approximately a decade ago, Martin founded the University of Melbourne’s Science Communication Teaching Program, now leading a team that equips undergraduate and postgraduate science students with essential written, oral, and media communication skills. Her contributions have been recognized with the 2020 University of Melbourne David White Award for Teaching Excellence and the 2019 Unsung Hero of Australian Science Communication award. Beyond academia, she is a faculty member of the Homeward Bound global leadership program for women in STEM, joining the largest-ever all-female expedition to Antarctica in 2019. Martin co-hosts the “Let’s Talk SciComm” podcast with Dr. Michael Wheeler and broadcasts science content on 3RRR radio, including the Sunday show Einstein A Go Go and the weekly Weird Science segment on Breakfasters. Her recent scholarship bridges ecology and communication, with papers such as “The full story: Understanding how films affect environmental change through the lens of narrative persuasion” (People and Nature, 2021) and “Ethical considerations for conservation messaging research and practice” (People and Nature, 2022). In 2024, she published the popular science book “Why am I like this? The science behind your weirdest thoughts and habits” (Hardie Grant Publishing).