Dr Hannah Slootjes is an Australian occupational therapist and academic ('pracademic'), and Lecturer in Occupational Therapy at La Trobe University, with additional qualifications in literature, behavioural studies, and fine art. Dr Slootjes completed a PhD in 2022 exploring the occupational therapist's role in perinatal health, and has a special interest in women's and girls' health, perinatal transitions, matricentric feminism, motherhood, and matrescence.