Aaron Martin

Associate Professor Aaron Martin is affiliated with the School of Social and Political Sciences in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, where he holds the position of Associate Professor in Political Science Research Methods. His academic background includes education at the Australian National University, the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris, Stanford University, and the University of Melbourne, from which he obtained his PhD before returning to join the faculty.

Aaron Martin's research specializations encompass the application of survey experiments to analyze public opinion on significant policy issues, including trust in news stories, automation, and support for redistribution, alongside extensive work on political and institutional trust, young people and politics, behavioral economics in policymaking, procedural fairness, and fact-checking effects. He is the author of the monograph Young People and Politics: Political Engagement in the Anglo-American Democracies (Routledge, 2012). Martin has contributed to Policy Agendas in Australia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) as part of the Australian Policy Agendas Project. Select peer-reviewed publications include 'Political probity increases trust in government: Evidence from randomized survey experiments' (PLoS ONE, 2020, co-authored with Raymond Orr, Kyle Peyton, Nicholas Faulkner); 'Does Third-Party Fact-Checking Increase Trust in News Stories? An Australian Case Study Using the “Sports Rorts” Affair' (Digital Journalism, 2022); 'Does process matter? Experimental evidence on the effect of procedural fairness on citizens’ evaluations of policy outcomes' (International Political Science Review, 2020); 'Support for behavioral nudges versus alternative policy instruments: Results from randomized experiments in the United States and Australia' (Regulation & Governance, 2022); 'Political Participation among the Young in Australia: Testing Dalton’s Good Citizen Thesis' (Australian Journal of Political Science, 2012); and 'Enlisting the support of trusted sources to tackle policy problems: The case of antimicrobial resistance' (PLoS ONE, 2019, co-authored with Timothy B. Gravelle, Jenny M. Lewis). His involvement extends to projects like Vote Compass and 'Understanding the causes and consequences of political and institutional trust.' Martin delivered the Senate Occasional Lecture in 2013 and coordinates Political Psychology (POLS30034).

Professional Email: aaron.martin@unimelb.edu.au