Dr Stephanie Hardacre
Research Officer
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
- Email:stephanie.hardacre@newcastle.edu.au
- Phone:0458991215
Career Summary
Biography
Dr. Stephanie Hardacre earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Newcastle in 2020. Her doctoral research focused on political solidarity and leadership in the context of gender equality, examining how leader gender influences the ability of male and female leaders to mobilise individuals for gender equality as a shared cause.
Stephanie is currently a Research Fellow in the School of Medicine and Psychology at the Australian National University, contributing to an ARC-funded project that investigates online strategies to enhance social integration and mental wellbeing among working-class university students. She is also a researcher at the University of Newcastle’s Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education, where she explores the impact of gender-based violence on students’ access to and participation in higher education.
In addition to her research roles, Stephanie is a provisional psychologist undertaking a Master of Clinical Psychology, blending her academic expertise with clinical training to address complex social and psychological challenges.
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, University of Newcastle
- Bachelor of Psychology, University of Newcastle
Keywords
- clinical psychology
- equity in higher education
- gender-based violence
- mental health
- quantitative research
- social class
- social psychology
Languages
- English (Mother)
Fields of Research
| Code | Description | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| 520505 | Social psychology | 70 |
| 529999 | Other psychology not elsewhere classified | 30 |
Professional Experience
Professional appointment
| Dates | Title | Organisation / Department |
|---|---|---|
| 1/6/2020 - | Research Assistant | School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle Australia |
| 31/3/2016 - | Research Assistant | School of Psychology, Faculty of Science & IT, University of Newcastle Australia |
Teaching
| Code | Course | Role | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSYC6050 |
Foundations of Applied Psychology 2 School of Psychology, Faculty of Science & IT, University of Newcastle Applied psychology is concerned with predicting people’s behaviours and attitudes in a variety of life and work settings. This knowledge informs ways to improve wellbeing, effectiveness, and productivity of individuals, groups, and organisations. The course will examine the research methods used in psychology to study and measure variables that influence our attitudes and behaviours, how tests and surveys are used and interpreted, and what makes a good psychological instrument. This course will also provide instruction in report writing and look at methods of evaluating the effectiveness of programs, as well as an overview of the key areas of applied Psychology for students with no prior background in the discipline. |
Course Coordinator | 24/2/2020 - 31/7/2020 |
| SOCS2400 |
Applied Social Research School of Humanities and Social Science - Faculty of Education and Arts - The University of Newcastle In this course students develop a comparative understanding of social science methods for the design of social inquiry. This course concentrates on the collection and analysis of quantitative data and the reporting of results. Students develop an understanding of the uses, strengths and limitations of various research strategies and approaches to conducting social inquiry, and develop skills necessary for designing social survey research tools, data processing and analysis, the interpretation of numerical data and report writing. The computer workshops will include an introduction to appropriate software packages such as SPSS. The course does not require previous statistical knowledge. |
Course Coordinator & Lecturer | 3/8/2020 - 31/12/2020 |
Publications
For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.
Conference (1 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 2022 | Bezzina A, Hardacre S, Watson T, James C, 'Overweight and Obesity in Australian Mining', SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK (2022) |
Journal article (8 outputs)
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| 2025 |
Burke PJ, Coffey J, Parker J, Hardacre S, Cocuzzoli F, Shaw J, Haro A, ''It's a lot of shame': understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation', TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 30, 116-131 (2025) [C1]
This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the l... [more] This paper draws on new empirical research examining the impact of gender-based violence (GBV) on students' experiences of higher education. While GBV across the life-course is an extremely prevalent and pressing social problem, it has been invisible within higher education. Indeed, experiences of GBV, which may profoundly shape access to and participation in higher education, are largely perceived as irrelevant to student equity, unless experienced on campus. Institutional silence around the impact of GBV on student equity is related to the gender injustice of misrecognition, whereby the social problem of GBV is located at the personal level. This manifests in the social emotion of shame, experienced at the personal level as disconnection, isolation and not belonging. This paper draws from our analysis of 47 in-depth interviews with student victim/survivors exploring their experiences of higher education to illuminate how deficit discourses and stigmatisation intersect to reproduce gender injustice in higher education.
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| 2025 |
Hardacre SL, Evans O, Cruwys T, Walker S, Cognian AV, 'The Hunger to Belong: Student Identity and Belonging Mediate the Relationship Between Social Class and Food Insecurity Among University Students', Journal of Applied Social Psychology (2025)
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| 2025 |
Subašic E, Ryan MK, Joye L, Young M, Hardacre S, Reynolds KJ, Branscombe NR, 'Should “sisters” be doing it by themselves? Leadership, allyship, and mobilization for gender equality', Political Psychology (2025)
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| 2023 |
Coffey J, Burke PJ, Hardacre S, Parker J, Coccuzoli F, Shaw J, 'Students as victim-survivors: the enduring impacts of gender-based violence for students in higher education', GENDER AND EDUCATION, 35, 623-637 (2023) [C1]
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| 2023 |
Evans O, Hardacre S, Rubin M, Tran M, 'Content appraisal and age moderate the relationship between passive social media use and mental ill-being', FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 14 (2023) [C1]
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| 2022 |
Hardacre S, Subasic E, 'With great power comes great responsibility: Repositioning gender (in)equality as men's burden or men's responsibility', TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 29, 97-122 (2022) [C1]
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| 2018 |
Hardacre SL, Subasic E, 'Whose Issue is it Anyway? The Effects of Leader Gender and Equality Message Framing on Men's and Women's Mobilisation towards Workplace Gender Equality', Frontiers in Psychology, 9 (2018) [C1]
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| 2018 |
Subasic E, Hardacre S, Elton B, Branscombe N, Ryan M, Reynolds K, 'We for She: Mobilising men and women to act in solidarity for gender equality', Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 21, 707-724 (2018) [C1]
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Report (1 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link | ||
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| 2021 |
Cook J, Bunn M, Burke PJ, Cuervo H, Hardacre S, Blunden J, 'Housing matters: Understanding the housing experiences of undergraduate regional, rural and remote students living outside the family home', 1-77 (2021)
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Thesis / Dissertation (2 outputs)
| Year | Citation | Altmetrics | Link |
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| 2020 | Hardacre S, Mobilising Men and Women in Support of Workplace Gender Equality: Does Leader Gender Matter?, University of Newcastle (2020) | ||
| 2015 | Hardacre S, Mobilising men and women In support of workplace gender equality: Intersection of solidarity and leadership, University of Newcastle (2015) |
Grants and Funding
Summary
| Number of grants | 1 |
|---|---|
| Total funding | $5,000 |
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20221 grants / $5,000
Inter-agency collaboration to develop post-crisis pathways to highereducation for victim-survivors of domestic violence$5,000
Funding body: College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle
| Funding body | College of Human and Social Futures | University of Newcastle |
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| Project Team | Prof Penny Jane Burke (lead), Mrs Felicity Cocuzzoli, Dr Julia Coffey, Dr Jean Parker, Dr Stephanie Hardacre |
| Scheme | CHSF - Matched Funding |
| Role | Investigator |
| Funding Start | 2022 |
| Funding Finish | 2022 |
| GNo | |
| Type Of Funding | Internal |
| Category | INTE |
| UON | N |
Dr Stephanie Hardacre
Position
Research Officer
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education
Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Ed
Engagement and Equity Division
Contact Details
| stephanie.hardacre@newcastle.edu.au | |
| Phone | 0458991215 |
| Links |
Research Networks Google+ Research Networks |
