Rate My Professor Tracy Martin

Tracy Martin serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at Murdoch University’s Ngangk Yira Institute for Change. In her primary professional capacity, she is the Nursing and Midwifery Co-Director for the Rockingham Peel Group within the South Metropolitan Health Service. She has held significant leadership positions in Western Australia’s health sector, including Principal Midwifery Advisor and Acting Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer at the Nursing and Midwifery Office, Clinical Excellence Division, Department of Health. As a Registered Nurse (RN) and Registered Midwife (RM), Tracy Martin has made notable contributions to midwifery practice and research.

Her academic interests center on enhancing maternity service delivery and promoting equitable, culturally safe care, with a particular emphasis on services for Aboriginal women. Key publications include co-authoring 'Midwives’ experiences of working in a new service delivery model: the next birth after caesarean service' published in Midwifery in 2015, which examined midwives' perspectives on a specialized birthing service. Another important work is 'Midwifery knowledge of equitable and culturally safe care for Aboriginal women,' published in Birth in 2021, evaluating midwifery expertise in providing culturally appropriate care. Tracy Martin has also contributed to projects such as the Birthing on Noongar Boodjar initiative, offering recommendations to support birthing on Noongar Boodjar, and the Baby Coming You Ready? program focused on perinatal social and emotional wellbeing assessment for vulnerable parents. Additional involvements encompass research on Aboriginal postnatal naming practices in 'Wongi mi bardup (doing it our way)' and reflections on Aboriginal research methods in ethical reviews. Her adjunct appointment at Murdoch University underscores her influence in advancing nursing and midwifery research aligned with Aboriginal health priorities through the Ngangk Yira Institute.