Yasmine Hooper

Yasmine is a mixed-methods researcher at the Centre for Social Impact UWA . She manages and supports research and evaluation activities across mental health and family domestic violence projects. She has expertise in project design/management, outcomes measurement, survey development, qualitative data collection and analysis, and statistical analysis with large-scale datasets. She also has specialised skills in gender analysis and gender mainstreaming.

She started working in youth mental health in 2015 as a Youth Advisor at Orygen, The National Centre for Youth Mental Health, where she co-designed and supported the Youth Participation Strategy. She has held project management and research positions across sectors; including the WA Association for Mental Health (managing the Youth Project and occupying a co-researcher/lived-experience role), and The Department of Justice (Research Assistant for the Clinical Governance Team evaluating criminogenic prison programs). Her perspective and approach are intersectional, centering on critical and social justice perspectives of systems, health, and wellbeing. She draws on her lived/living experience, social justice values, and research experience to approach a wide range of social impact and social change projects.

Focus areas

  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Gender and sexuality (includes LGBTQIA+)
  • Family domestic violence

yasmine.hooper@uwa.edu.au