Rate My Professor Jen Evans

Evans' career includes election to the University of Tasmania Academic Senate as an Academic Level D/E representative, with a term expiring on 31 December 2027. She leads latawina, a project comprising exclusively Aboriginal staff within UTAS Health, and has organized events such as the College of Health and Medicine Aboriginal Engagement Symposium in July 2023. In recognition of her contributions, Evans was awarded the Tasmanian Aboriginal Writer's Fellowship in 2022, which provided a publishing opportunity in Island magazine. Her key publications include 'Understanding the cultural, social and political dimensions of health equity in Lutruwita/Tasmania' (2026, Lowitja Journal), 'Does Tasmania Enable Flourishing in Its Protected Areas?' (2025, Annals of the American Association of Geographers), 'Supporting Indigenous Queer and Gender Diverse Students and Researchers in Clinical Social Work Education' (2025, The Clinical Supervisor), 'Queer(y)ing Indigenous Australian higher education student success and wellbeing through yarning circles' (2021, Australian Journal of Indigenous Education), and 'A Reciprocal Triangulation Process For Identifying And Mapping Potential Land Use Conflict' (2018). Evans supervises doctoral research, including on the impacts of the Murina, and engages in funded projects exploring Indigenous and decolonising methodologies, health justice, and equity for Indigenous health care providers.