Academy Fellow

Martin is currently a Research Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at QUT. He was previously the inaugural Director of the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research at the Institute of Education, University College London, where he also holds an Emeritus Professorship. Prior to that he had been at The University of Queensland for 23 years, where he was Head of School before taking up the position in London. He is a former President of the Australian Association for Research in Education. He has held multiple ARC research grants, including an ARC Future Fellowship (2012-2016). His work has principally focused on social justice issues in education. These areas have included: teachers’ work and pedagogical practice, alternative education, and gender and education. He is the editor in chief of Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice. He is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia Education Committee. 

Martin has served on numerous government or statutory authority advisory committees, for example, he is on the Education Advisory Group – Youth Affairs Network Queensland (YANQ), and has been a member of the Equity Advisory Committee Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) (formerly QSA) and a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Future of Sate Schooling in Queensland.

Honorary Professorship Kings College London (2012-15)

President Australian Association for Research in Education (2014-2016)

Life Fellow Clare Hall, Cambridge University

Mills, M., Keddie, A., Renshaw, P. & Monk, S. (2017) The politics of differentiation in schools, Routledge, London.

Mills, M., & McGregor, G. (2016). Learning not borrowing from the Queensland Education System: Lessons on curricular, pedagogical and assessment reform, The Curriculum Journal, 27 (1) 113-133.

Mills, M. (2015) The tyranny of no alternative: Co-operating in a competitive marketplace, International Journal of Inclusive Education. 19(11), 1172-1189.

Mills, M. & McGregor, G. (2014) Re-engaging young people in education: learning from alternative schools, Routledge, London.

Francis, B. & Mills, M. (2012) What Would a Socially Just Education System Look Like? Journal of Education Policy 27(5), 577-585.