Rochelle Hine is a non-Indigenous woman living and working on GunaiKurnai Country in Gippsland, Victoria. Rochelle is an early career researcher, employed as a lecturer at Monash Rural Health. She has a background in social work in rural settings, specialising in mental health and women's health promotion in clinical practice, service development, research and management. 

Rochelle's mental health research focusses on prevention and early intervention, grounded in a social justice framework and an understanding of the social and economic factors that influence mental health outcomes. Rochelle uses predominantly critical qualitative approaches to explore the circumstances of people’s lives, collaborating with lived experience experts and other stakeholders.