Dr. Jennifer Martin

Dr. Jennifer Martin is a full professor in Child and Youth Care and the associate dean of scholarly, research and creative activity at the Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on child and youth trauma, child sexual abuse, online child sexual exploitation and child sex trafficking. She has long-standing relationships with governments, Indigenous partners, and non-profit agencies in Canada and internationally, and is an internationally recognized expert who has served as a policy consultant for governments in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.

She has published extensively in high-impact national and international journals and regularly presents her work at conferences worldwide. She was the first in Canada, and one of the first internationally, to explore practitioner conceptualizations of child sexual abuse images online. She was awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant project titled Child Sexual Abuse Images Online: Identifying and Addressing Knowledge Gaps and Multilevel Barriers to Cross-Sectoral Responses. This project further facilitated collaboration between law enforcement, children’s mental health, and child welfare sectors to advance knowledge about the potential impact of online child sexual exploitation on child victims.