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Yasmine Hooper

Ms, She/Her

    • The University of Western Australia (M098), 35 Stirling Highway,

      6009 Perth

      Australia

    Personal profile

    Biography

    Yasmine Hooper is a Researcher at the Centre for Social Impact UWA (CSI UWA), specialising in wellbeing, mental health, and gender/LGBTQIA+. She embodies a holistic, inclusive, and intersectional view of mental health, applying social justice frameworks and lived experience to her work. As a mixed methods researcher with expertise in gender mainstreaming policy and gender analysis, Yasmine brings unique and critical perspectives to her projects.

    She has contributed to a range of evaluation projects at CSI UWA, covering topics such as community mental health, safeguarding children, youth mental health, homelessness, mental health in regional and rural WA, and workplace sexual harassment. Yasmine integrates social, political, and cultural considerations into policy making, project design and implementation, as well as monitoring and evaluation, ensuring comprehensiveness in addressing social problems.

    Education/Academic qualification

    Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

    Gender Studies, Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis, Flinders University

    Research expertise keywords

    • Mental health
    • Wellbeing
    • Gender
    • LGBTQIA+