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Professor Bep Uink

Director

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6931
Email: b.uink@ecu.edu.au
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-2898-3267

Bep is the Director of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet within Kurongkurl Katitjin.

Qualifications

  • Master of Applied Psychology, Murdoch University, 2019.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University, 2019.
  • Bachelor of Psychology with First Class Honours, Murdoch University, 2013.

Research Outputs

2025

Journal Articles

  • 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.

2024

Book Chapters

  • 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.

2023

Book Chapters

  • 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.

2022

Journal Articles

  • 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.

2021

Journal Articles

  • 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.

2020

Journal Articles

  • 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.

2019

Journal Articles

  • 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.

2018

Journal Articles

  • 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.

2017

Book Chapters

  • 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.

Research Student Supervision

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