Rate My Professor Rochelle Hine

Rochelle Hine is a Senior Lecturer at Monash Rural Health and in the Gukwonderuk Indigenous Health Workforce, School of Rural Health, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University. A non-Indigenous researcher living and working on GunaiKurnai Country in Gippsland, Victoria, she is an early career researcher with over 25 years of experience as a social work clinician and manager in rural settings. Her professional background spans mental health services, women's health promotion, education, foster care, and public health. Hine's mental health research centers on prevention and early intervention, employing critical qualitative approaches within a social justice framework to examine social and economic determinants of mental health outcomes. She collaborates closely with lived experience experts and stakeholders, with research interests encompassing mental health and wellbeing, gender and diversity, parenting, and the rural health workforce. She contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals including good health and well-being, quality education, industry innovation, climate action, and peace, justice and strong institutions.

Employed as a senior researcher and lecturer at Monash Rural Health since 2020, Hine has led five research projects, including two international collaborations. Key initiatives include StigmaBeat, partnering with rural Gippsland youth, the Satellite Foundation, and international researchers to co-design anti-stigma short films addressing intersectional stigma in families with parental mental illness, yielding publications and conference presentations by participants. Other projects focus on culturally responsive perinatal mental wellbeing information for migrant and refugee women, and mental health promotion for African women in Australia. She serves as deputy chair of the Parental and Family Mental Health Worldwide Collaborative. Hine received the 2024 Early and Mid-Career Research Award for consumer and community involvement from Monash Partners and the Best Presentation by an Early Career Researcher award in 2019. Among her 39 research outputs are 'Medical student reflections and learning from completing a clinical audit: Gains for the health system' (2025), 'A family camp for families where a parent experiences mental health challenges: a qualitative evaluation' (2025), '“Lost in translation?”: A qualitative exploration of digital perinatal mental health resource use among migrant women' (2025), and 'Service Users' Descriptions of Recovery-Oriented Elements of a Rural Mental Health Service' (2023). She accepts PhD students.