Rate My Professor Yvonne Hauck

Professor Yvonne Hauck serves as Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery at Curtin University, holding a joint appointment with King Edward Memorial Hospital since her appointment in 2011 as Western Australia's inaugural Professor of Midwifery. An alumna of Curtin University, she earned her MSc in Nursing in 1992 and received a Postgraduate Research Scholarship from Curtin University of Technology. She completed her PhD in Nursing at Edith Cowan University in 2000 and holds a BScN. With more than three decades of experience in maternal and child health in Canada and Australia, Hauck previously held the position of Senior Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Curtin University.

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.