Rate My Professor Stephanie Hardacre

Her research specializations include social psychology, equity in higher education, gender-based violence, mental health, social class, and quantitative methods. Notable projects encompass studies on the impacts of gender-based violence on higher education participation, inter-agency efforts for post-crisis pathways for domestic violence victim-survivors (2022 grant, $5,000), and reports like 'Healing and Recovery from the Impacts of Gender-Based Violence' (2026) and 'Housing matters: Understanding the housing experiences of undergraduate regional, rural and remote students' (2021). Key publications feature '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, 2018), 'We for She: Mobilising men and women to act in solidarity for gender equality' (Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 2018), 'Content appraisal and age moderate the relationship between passive social media use and mental ill-being' (Frontiers in Psychology, 2023), ''It's a lot of shame': understanding the impact of gender-based violence on higher education access and participation' (Teaching in Higher Education, 2025), and 'Should “sisters” be doing it by themselves? Leadership, allyship, and mobilization for gender equality' (Political Psychology, 2025). Her work contributes to understanding mobilization for social change and equity challenges in educational settings.