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5.08/20/2025

A true mentor who cares about success.

4.05/21/2025

Patient, kind, and always approachable.

5.03/31/2025

Creates dynamic and thought-provoking lessons.

4.02/27/2025

Encourages students to think independently.

5.02/4/2025

Great Professor!

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About Jane

Professor Jane Dyson is Professor in Social Geography and Development Geography in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Faculty of Science, at the University of Melbourne. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her doctoral research examined life in a high-altitude village in the Indian Himalayas. After completing her doctorate, Dyson taught and conducted research at the University of Washington and the University of Oxford. Her academic career at the University of Melbourne encompasses ethnographic fieldwork in the Indian Himalayas since 2002, focusing on social geography, cultural anthropology, and development studies. Her research investigates youth agency, gender dynamics, work, education, politics, and social transformation among young people in remote Himalayan communities.