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Featherstone, Brid; Robb, Martin; Ruxton, Sandy and Ward, Michael R.M. (2017). ‘They are just good people…generally good people’: Perspectives of young men on relationships with social care workers in the UK. Children & Society, 31(5) pp. 331–341.

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Jones, Kerry and Robb, Martin (2025). Introduction. In: Jones, Kerry and Robb, Martin eds. Men and Loss: New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. London: Routledge, pp. 1–3.

Jones, Kerry; Murphy, Sam and Robb, Martin (2024). We can’t play with them, but we can play for them’: fathers uniting in grief through football. In: Jones, Kerry and Robb, Martin eds. Men and Loss. New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. London: Routledge.

Jones, Kerry; Robb, Martin; Murphy, Sam and Davies, Alison (2019). New understandings of fathers’ experiences of grief and loss following stillbirth and neonatal death: a scoping review. Midwifery, 79, article no. 102531.

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Robb, Martin (2025). ‘The loss of my son defines me’: Masculinity, identity and bereavement. In: Jones, Kerry and Robb, Martin eds. Men and Loss: New Perspectives on Bereavement, Grief and Masculinity. London: Routledge, pp. 4–17.

Robb, Martin (2024). Hidden from Family History: The Ethics of Remembering. Genealogy, 8(2), article no. 51.

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Robb, Martin; Larkin, Mary and Deepak Gopinath, Manik (2023). Relational Care - with Mary Larkin and Manik Deepak-Gopinath [Podcast].

Robb, Martin (2022). 'With Prayer from Your Loving Father': Men, Masculinity, Faith and Care. In: van Nistelrooij, Inge; Sander-Staudt, Maureen and Hamington, Maurice eds. Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions. Ethics of Care, 13. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, pp. 195–209.

Robb, Martin (2021). Boys and Fatherhood.

Robb, Martin (2021). ‘Men, we just deal with it differently’: researching sensitive issues with young men. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(5) pp. 617–625.

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Robb, Martin (2020). ‘From Your Ever Anxious and Loving Father’: Faith, Fatherhood, and Masculinity in One Man’s Letters to His Son during the First World War. Genealogy, 4(1), article no. 32.

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Robb, Martin (2020). Fathers and Forefathers: Men and Their Children in Genealogical Perspective. Genealogy, 4(2) e65.

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Robb, Martin (2019). Wanted men? Gendered discourses in work with children and young people. In: Robb, Martin; Montgomery, Heather and Thomson, Rachel eds. Critical Practice with Children and Young People, 2nd edition. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 219–237.

Robb, Martin (2019). Men, Masculinities and the Care of Children: Images, Ideas and Identities. Abingdon: Routledge.

Ruxton, Sandy; Robb, Martin; Featherstone, Brigid and Ward, Michael (2018). Beyond Male Role Models: Gender Identities and Work with Young Men in the UK. In: Kulkarni, Mangesh and Jain, Rimjhim eds. Global Masculinities: Interrogations and Reconstructions. India: Routledge.

Robb, Martin and Ruxton, Sandy (2018). Young men and gender identity. In: Montgomery, Heather and Robb, Martin eds. Children and young people’s worlds. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 141–156.

Robb, Martin; Featherstone, Brid; Ruxton, Sandy and Ward, Michael R.M. (2018). Family relationships and troubled masculinities: the experience of young men in contact with care and welfare services. In: O'Dell, Lindsay; Brownlow, Charlotte and Bertilsdotter-Rosqvist, Hanna eds. Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, pp. 72–84.

Robb, Martin (2014). Disseminating research: shaping the conversation. In: Clark, Alison; Flewitt, Rosie; Hammersley, Martyn and Robb, Martin eds. Understanding Research with Children and Young People. Published in association with The Open University. London: SAGE Publication Ltd., pp. 237–249.

Robb, Martin (2010). Men wanted? Gender and the children's workforce. In: Robb, Martin and Thomson, Rachel eds. Critical Practice with Children and Young People. Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 185–199.

Robb, Martin (2007). Gender. In: Kehily, Mary ed. Understanding Youth: perspectives, identities and practices. London: Sage, pp. 109–145.

Robb, Martin (2007). Wellbeing. In: Kehily, Mary ed. Understanding Youth: perspectives, identities and practices. London: Sage, pp. 181–213.

Robb, Martin (2007). Relating. In: Kehily, Mary ed. Understanding Youth: perspectives, identities and practices. London: Sage, pp. 313–344.

Robb, Martin (2004). Exploring fatherhood: masculinity and intersubjectivity in the research process. Journal of Social Work Practice, 18(3) pp. 395–406.

Robb, Martin (2003). Men talking about fatherhood: discourse and identities. In: Barrett, Sheila; Komaromy, Carol; Robb, Martin and Rogers, Anita eds. Communication, Relationships and Care: A Reader. London, UK: Routledge, pp. 121–130.

Robb, M. (2000). Men working in childcare. In: Foley, Pam; Roche, Jeremy and Tucker, Stan eds. Children in Society: Contemporary Theory, Policy and Practice. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave/The Open University, pp. 230–238.

Taverner, Phil; Larkin, Mary; Vseteckova, Jitka; Kentzer, Nichola; Horne, Jo; Penson, Martin; Robb, Martin; Berry, Alex; Spencer, Melinda and Methley, Abigail (2020). How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

Tarrant, Anna; Terry, Gareth; Ward, Michael R.M.; Ruxton, Sandy; Robb, Martin and Featherstone, Brigid (2015). Are Male Role Models Really the Solution? Interrogating the ‘War on Boys’ Through the Lens of the ‘Male Role Model’ Discourse. Boyhood Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal, 8(1)