Rate My Professor Yvonne Hauck

Professor Hauck is recognized internationally for her leadership in midwifery research, focusing on breastfeeding, maternal mental health issues such as anxiety and depression, parenting confidence and competence, and perinatal outcomes for women with serious mental illness. Her research also encompasses maternity care during the COVID-19 pandemic, the midwifery philosophy of being 'with woman', public breastfeeding experiences, vaginal birth after caesarean, immersion in water for labour and birth, and maternity research priorities in rural areas. She has produced 196 publications garnering over 6,900 citations. Notable works include 'Australian, Irish, and Swedish women’s comfort levels when breastfeeding in public' (2023), 'Women’s perceptions of factors needed to encourage a culture of public breastfeeding: a cross-sectional study in Sweden, Ireland and Australia' (2023), 'Breastfeeding in Public: An International Exploration of Women’s Experiences' (2023), 'Maternity research priorities in country Western Australia: a Delphi study' (2022), 'Childbearing women’s experiences of the maternity care system in Australia during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic' (2021), and 'The influence of childbirth expectations on Western Australian women’s perceptions of their birth experience' (2007). In 2013, she was a finalist in the Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards for Research. Her contributions advance practice-based midwifery research and innovation through collaborations with entities like the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and Ngala.