ECU offers innovative and practical courses across a variety of disciplines and we have a vibrant research culture. ECU is a leader in developing alternative entry pathways to higher education.
We have three campuses in Western Australia. Joondalup and Mount Lawley in the Perth metropolitan area and our South West campus in Bunbury, 200km south of the Perth CBD.
ECU provides a variety of services and facilities that go beyond the classroom, with opportunities for personal development and social interaction for students and staff.
We collaborate with all types of businesses, including new start-ups, small to medium enterprises, not-for-profits, community organisations, government and large corporates in the resources sector.
Children's University Edith Cowan aims to inspire students between seven and fourteen to develop confidence and a love of learning through validated activities beyond the school curriculum.
The Inspiring Minds scholarship program are equity scholarships that give students an opportunity to access an education that may otherwise be out of reach.
Liddelow-Hunt, S., Lin, A., Perry, Y., Hill, B., Uink, B. (2025). Ensuring That Marginalized Young People Feel Welcome, Understood, and Empowered in Health Services: A Qualitative Examination of the Service Needs of Aboriginal LGBTQA+ Young People. Qualitative Health Research, 2025(Article in press), pp. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251329765.
Uink, B., Isaacs-Guthridge, R., Bennett, R. (2024). Supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and other under-served university students through Indigenous relationality. Research Handbook on Student Engagement in Higher Education (72-86). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035314294.00016.
Journal Articles
Uink, B., Bennett, R., Bennett, S., Bonson, D., Hill, B. (2024). Considering First Nations LGBTIQ+ identity in anti-racist healthcare: Relations between comfort in healthcare, microaggressions and wellbeing. First Nations Health and Wellbeing - The Lowitja Journal, 2(2024), article number 100027. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fnhli.2024.100027.
Hill, B., Dodd, J., Uink, B., Bonson, D., Bennett, S. (2024). Pride, belonging and community: What does this mean if you are Aboriginal and LGBT+ and living in Western Australia?. Journal of Sociology, 60(1), 39–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/14407833221093402.
Moore, S., Smith, J., Gupta, H., Stahl, G., Uink, B., Hill, B., Fleay, J., Rung, D., Harvey, A., Radoll, P. (2023). Exploring the Social and Cultural Determinants of Indigenous Males' Participation and Success in Higher Education in Australia. Health Promotion with Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour: Global Strategies for Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice in Context (119-137). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22174-3_8.
Modecki, K., Duvenage, M., Zimmer-Gembeck, M., Robins, S., Uink, B. (2023). Capturing Coping: Innovative Designs and Considerations for Studying the Topography of Adolescents’ Coping. The Cambridge Handbook of the Development of Coping (157-182). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917230.009.
Journal Articles
Hill, B., Nilson, C., Uink, B., Fetherston, C. (2023). Transformation at the cultural interface: exploring the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander university students. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 52(2), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.55146/ajie.v52i2.656.
Uink, B., Dodd, J., Bennett, S., Bonson, D., Eades, A., Hill, B. (2023). Confidence, practices and training needs of people working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander LGBTIQ+ clients. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 25(2), 206-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2031298.
Liddelow-Hunt, S., Lin, A., Hill, JH., Daglas, K., Hill, B., Perry, Y., Wilson, M., Uink, B. (2023). Conceptualising Wellbeing for Australian Aboriginal LGBTQA+ Young People. Youth, 3(1), 70-92. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/youth3010005.
Hill, B., Dodd, J., Uink, B., Bonson, D., Bennett, S., Eades, A. (2022). Aboriginal and Queer Identity/ies in Western Australia: When There is a Need to Know in Therapeutic Settings. Qualitative Health Research, 32(5), 755-770. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323211069682.
Uink, B., Bennett, R., Bullen, J., Lin, A., Martin, G., Woods, J., Paradies, Y. (2022). Racism and Indigenous Adolescent Development: A Scoping Review. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32(2), 487-500. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12754.
Spurway, K., Soldatic, K., Briskman, L., Uink, B., Liddelow-Hunt, S., Hill, B., Lin, A. (2022). The social and emotional wellbeing of Indigenous LGBTQA+ young people: a global perspective. Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, 39(2), 138-147. https://doi.org/10.1017/ipm.2020.83.
Modecki, K., Duvenage, M., Uink, B., Barber, B., Donovan, C. (2022). Adolescents’ Online Coping: When Less Is More but None Is Worse. Clinical Psychological Science, 10(3), 467-481. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211028983.
Bennett, R., Uink, B., Martin, G. (2022). Cultural Studies and critical allyship in the settler colonial academe. Continuum, 36(5), 723-739. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2022.2049213.
Bennett, R., Tanoa, A., Uink, B., Van, dB. (2021). Creativity in reactivity: Application of a ‘relationships-first’ strategy in the rapid transition to online learning for Indigenous university students during COVID-19. Journal of Global Indigeneity, 5(1), 1-13.
Bennett, R., Uink, B., Van, dB. (2021). Educating Rita at the cultural interface: exploring intersections between race and gender in the experiences of Australian Aboriginal women at university. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 15(2), 84-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2020.1815699.
Uink, B., Bennett, R., Van, dB. (2021). Factors that enable Australian Aboriginal women’s persistence at university: a strengths-based approach. Higher Education Research and Development, 40(1), 178-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1852185.
Modecki, K., Low-Choy, S., Vasco, D., Vernon, L., Uink, B. (2021). Commentary response: Smartphone use and parenting: re-stratifying the multiverse for families of young children.. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 62(12), 1497-1500. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13433.
Uink, B., Hill, B., Day, A., Martin, G. (2021). ‘Wings to fly’: a case study of supporting Indigenous student success through a whole-of-university approach. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 50(1), 10-19. https://doi.org/10.1017/jie.2019.6.
Uink, B., Liddelow-Hunt, S., Daglas, K., Ducasse, D. (2020). The time for inclusive care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander LGBTQ+ young people is now. The Medical Journal of Australia, 213(5), 201-2040. https://doi.org/10.5694/mja2.50718.
Duvenage, M., Correia, H., Uink, B., Barber, B., Donovan, C., Modecki, K. (2020). Technology can sting when reality bites: Adolescents’ frequent online coping is ineffective with momentary stress. Computers in Human Behavior, 102(43831), 248-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.08.024.
Modecki, KL., Low-Choy, S., Uink, B., Vernon, L., Correia, H., Andrews, K. (2020). Tuning into the real effect of smartphone use on parenting: A multiverse analysis. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61(8), 855-865. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13282.
Bennett, R., Uink, B., Cross, S. (2020). Beyond the social: Cumulative implications of COVID-19 for first nations university students in Australia. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2(1), article number 100083. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100083.
Duvenage, M., Uink, B., Zimmer-Gembeck, M., Barber, B., Donovan, C., Modecki, K. (2019). Ambulatory Assessment of Adolescent Coping: It's a Complicated Process. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29(3), 578-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12468.
Uink, B., Modecki, K., Barber, B., Correia, H. (2018). Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents with Elevated Externalizing Symptoms Show Heightened Emotion Reactivity to Daily Stress: An Experience Sampling Study. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 49(5), 741-756. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0784-x.
Modecki, K., Uink, B., Barber, B. (2018). Antisocial behaviour during the teenage years: Understanding developmental risks. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 2018(556), 1-13.
Modecki, K., Uink, B. (2017). How can Developmental Psychopathology Influence Social and Legal Policy? Adolescence, Mental Health, and Decision Making. The Wiley Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology (499-517). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118554470.ch24.
Journal Articles
Uink, B., Modecki, K., Barber, B. (2017). Disadvantaged youth report less negative emotion to minor stressors when with peers: An experience sampling study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025415626516.
Research Projects
Developing an Inclusive Mental Healthcare Model of Care for LGBTQ people in South Australia , National Health and Medical Research Council, MRFF - Sexuality and Gender Diverse and Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics Streams 1-2 2024, 2024 ‑ 2028.
National Best Practice Unit - Tackling Indigenous Smoking App, Department of Health and Aged Care, Tender, 2024 ‑ 2027, $204,586.
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet Portal for Queensland, Queensland Health, Grant, 2024 ‑ 2027, $293,105.
Cracking the Code: Parent Influences on Adolescent Daily Coping with Stress, Australian Research Council, Discovery Projects (DP25), 2025 ‑ 2027, $26,514.
National Best Practice Unit - Tackling Indigenous Smoking, Department of Health and Aged Care, Tender, 2018 ‑ 2027, $895,589.
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet - Activity 2 - Alcohol and Other Drugs, Department of Health and Aged Care, Tender, 2023 ‑ 2026, $1,236,000.
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet - Activity 3 - Environmental Health Portal, Department of Health and Aged Care, Tender, 2023 ‑ 2026, $150,000.
An Aboriginal health knowledge resource specific for Western Australia, Department of Health WA, Grant, 2018 ‑ 2026, $473,838.
The Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet - Activity 1 - Core Operational funding, Department of Health and Aged Care, Tender, 2023 ‑ 2026, $4,062,000.
Understanding racism literacy and anti-racism initiatives in WA high schools, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Inc, Grant - ASSA, 2024 ‑ 2026, $17,499.
Establishment, development & evaluation of an eMHPrac website, Department of Health and Aged Care, e-Mental Health in Practice, 2019 ‑ 2025, $291,283.