Dr. Hayley Passmore is a Lecturer in Criminology at The University of Western Australia Law School, where she serves as Unit Coordinator for LAWS2230 Working with People in the Justice System 1 and LAWS3312 Working with People in the Justice System 2, and contributes to other undergraduate and postgraduate units in the Law School and School of Psychological Science. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at The University of Western Australia in 2019, with a thesis titled 'Improving the management of young people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in detention'. Additional degrees include a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology (First Class Honours) from Murdoch University in 2014 and a Bachelor of Criminology from Murdoch University in 2013. With over 13 years of frontline experience in prisons and youth detention facilities, Passmore previously conducted research at the Telethon Kids Institute, where she contributed to the first Australian study on FASD prevalence among justice-involved youth. She holds an Honorary Research Associate position at The Kids Research Institute Australia, is a Churchill Fellow, serves as an independent expert on the ACT Government's Therapeutic Support Panel, and is the WA Representative on the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Committee of Management.

Passmore's research focuses on youth justice, neurodisability, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), criminology, workforce development, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurodiversity, and youth detention. She pioneered the Reframe Training intervention, an empirically and clinically grounded program to upskill frontline professionals in supporting young people with neurodisabilities, which she has delivered to over 900 professionals across Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia, and the Northern Territory. Key publications include 'Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and youth justice: a prevalence study among young people sentenced to detention in Western Australia' (BMJ Open, 2018), 'Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): Knowledge, attitudes, experiences and practices of the Western Australian youth custodial workforce' (International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2018), 'Reframe the Behaviour: Evaluation of a training intervention to increase capacity in managing detained youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder' (Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 2021), and 'Neurodiversity (in)justice: learnings for Australia from international approaches to supporting neurodivergent people in justice facilities' (The University of Western Australia Law Review, 2025). Her work has garnered international recognition and influenced policy through submissions to inquiries such as the Senate Inquiry into FASD and the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory. Awards include the UWA Law School Excellence in Teaching Award (Early Career, 2025), WA Finalist for Young Australian of the Year (2022), AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker (2021), and WA Young Achiever Awards Super Spirit Create Change Award (2022). She delivers public lectures on neurodiversity in the youth justice system and related topics.

Professional Email: hayley.passmore@uwa.edu.au