Yasmine Hooper

Yasmine Hooper serves as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Impact UWA (CSI UWA), The University of Western Australia, applying holistic, inclusive, and intersectional approaches to projects focused on wellbeing, family domestic violence, and gender/LGBTQIA+ issues. She integrates critical social justice frameworks and lived experience into policy design, implementation, and evaluation.

Her academic credentials include:

• Graduate Certificate in Gender Mainstreaming Policy and Analysis (Flinders University, awarded 30 November 2024)
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Psychology (awarded 31 October 2019)
• PhD candidate at Curtin University (enrollment period: 1 January 2025 – 1 December 2028)

Hooper's research expertise centers on gender analysis, feminist thought, and wellbeing with specific focus on eating disorders and LGBTQIA+ inclusion. She employs mixed-methods approaches to ensure social, political, and cultural dimensions inform comprehensive solutions to complex social problems. Her work emphasizes practical application through policy mainstreaming and evaluation frameworks.

Her 2023 publication on workplace sexual harassment demonstrates consistent thematic focus on systemic barriers and legal consequences within gender-based violence research, bridging social sciences and legal scholarship through intersectional analysis.

Hooper actively contributes to 14 research grants as co-investigator:

• Development and Implementation of an Evaluation Framework for CLEAR pathway project (Anglicare Australia, September 2025–December 2027)
• ‘Falling through the cracks’: Supporting young carer wellbeing (Healthway, June 2025–October 2027)
• Evaluation of Equestrian Youth Engagement Service Project (Australian Childhood Foundation, April 2025–December 2025)
• Evaluation of Youth Homelessness Advisory Council (Youth Affairs Council WA, March 2025–December 2025)
• Evaluation of FDV-informed Training Program (St John WA, October 2023–December 2026)

She operates within CSI UWA's multidisciplinary research environment, collaborating with organizations like Anglicare Australia and Healthway to translate evidence into social impact through rigorous evaluation methodologies and community-centered design principles.