Rate My Professor Jessica Weir

A non-Indigenous scholar, Weir investigates environmental issues and natural hazard risk by holding environment and society in intimate relation, rethinking nature and evidence in domains typically led by natural sciences. Her research addresses policy and regulatory consequences of co-located Indigenous and non-Indigenous jurisdictions, informed by more than 20 years of collaboration with Indigenous leaders in Australia. Her internationally recognized book, Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009), critiques the public sector's separation of nature and society. Other influential publications include 'The Benefits Associated with Caring for Country' (2011), 'Country, Native Title and Ecology' (2012), 'Persuasion without Policies: The Work of Reviving Indigenous Peoples’ Fire Management in Southern Australia' (2021), and 'Centring Indigenous Peoples in Knowledge Exchange Research-Practice by Resetting Assumptions, Relationships and Institutions' (Sustainability Science, 2024). Her scholarship intersects human geography, Indigenous studies, decolonial studies, political science, environmental humanities, and science and technology studies. Weir has received the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research Award for Excellence in Indigenous Research (2023), the Dorothy R. Taylor Award for Best Paper (2021, shared), and the Emergency Communication Research Award (2022, shared).