Rate My Professor Sally Babidge

Associate Professor Sally Babidge is a sociocultural anthropologist in the School of Social Science at the University of Queensland, serving as Director of the Bachelor of Social Science and the Master of Development Practice program. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from James Cook University. Her research examines the social and cultural dimensions of ecological and economic change, particularly impacts from the extractives industry on Indigenous Peoples in Chile and Australia. Current projects address political, practical, and epistemological challenges in identifying harms from large-scale mining, especially in critical minerals extraction, and groundwater-related community futures. Babidge employs ethnographic methodologies emphasizing sustained, engaged, and ethical relationships, contributing to political and environmental anthropology, decolonial and feminist theory. She teaches undergraduate anthropology courses, multidisciplinary theory and methodology for Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Honours students, and supervises higher degree research students on ecological futures, water governance, territorial relations, and water justice for Indigenous Peoples.