Bep Uink

PROFESSOR. BEP UINK [BPsych(Hons.), Master of Applied Psychology (Clinical), Professor Uink is the Director of the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet at Edith Cowan University and Honorary Associate at the Kids Research Institute Australia. The HealthInfoNet is a unique, best-practice online resource which provides timely, accessible and relevant information about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing to practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and the general public. Prof. Uink is a Noongar woman with significant experience in research and leadership roles, including Senior Research Fellow at Kulbardi Aboriginal Centre and Dean of Indigenous Knowledges at Murdoch University. Her program of research focuses on how socially determined disadvantage impacts the social emotional wellbeing of young people, both Aboriginal and non-Indigenous, and how social systems can support wellbeing. She leads a program of Aboriginal youth mental health research, informed by community need and strengths, which has secured over $6.5 million in funding, including NHMRC funding for Walkern Katatjdin (Rainbow Knowledge) study and an ARC Discovery Indigenous project Racism and Allyship in Aboriginal Youth Spaces (RAAYS) focused on examining the impacts of daily racism on Aboriginal adolescents’ wellbeing as well as how non-Indigenous adults can interrupt and prevent racism. She has contributed to key Aboriginal health research advisory groups, and in 2022 was a runner-up in for the ‘Get up, Stand Up, Show Up’ Perth NAIDOC award.