Lesley Head

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Lesley Head
FASSA FAHA
Emeritus Professor Lesley Head, at the Thomson Oration, Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, Spring Hill, 2 May 2023.jpg
Emeritus Professor Lesley Head, delivering the Thomson Oration, Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, Spring Hill, 2 May 2023
Nationality Australian
Alma mater Monash University
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Sustainability, Archaeology, Geography
Institutions
Website www.lesleyhead.com

Lesley Head FASSA FAHA (1957- [1] ) is an Australian geographer specialising in human-environment relations. [2] She is active in geographical debates about the relationship between humans and nature, using concepts and analytical methods from physical geography, archaeology and cultural geography. She retired from the University of Melbourne in 2021.

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Biography

Head grew up in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia and has 3 siblings. [3] She completed her doctoral degree at Monash University in Melbourne. [4] She was in the Victorian public service for two years, then became a tutor at Monash, then was offered a lectureship at the University of Wollongong.

She became a professor of geography at the University of Wollongong and spent 28 years there, also serving as department head and directing the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER).

She has also worked in Sweden, as King Carl XVI Gustaf Visiting professor of Environmental Sciences at Hogskölan Kristianstad (Kristianstad University), from 2005 to 2006. [5]

In 2016 she moved to Melbourne to chair the School of Geography at the University of Melbourne, with the title of Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor. She retired and became Professorial Fellow in 2021 when the school was disbanded and merged.

She is a former president of the Institute of Australian Geographers and has chaired the National Committee for Geography of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2020 she was elected president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. [6]

Expertise

Head began her research career using palaeoecology and archaeology to study long term changes in the Australian landscape, then becoming more interested in human-environment relations and moving to research Aboriginal land use, ethnobotany and fire.

More recently, she has focused on relationships between humans and plants, such as backyard gardens, and issues of sustainability and climate change. [5]

She has been a supporter and mentor of women in academia. [3]

Awards and honors

Publications (books)

References

  1. ↑ "LUX: Yale Collections Discovery". lux.collections.yale.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Meet Professor Lesley Head | Conversations with ACCESS (formerly AUSCCER)". www.uowblogs.com. Retrieved 31 December 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. 1 2 "Lesley Head".
  4. 1 2 "Fellows Detail: Professor Lesley Head" . Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Lesley Head - School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden". Göteborgs universitet. Retrieved 31 December 2018.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ Australian Academy of the Humanities (24 November 2020). "New Academy President to champion Humanities' role in tackling climate change". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "Thomson Medal Presentation and Thomson Oration: The Social Life of Australian Nature: the case of Barka/Darling River ecocide". Royal Geographical Society of Queensland . Retrieved 2 May 2023.
  8. ↑ "Academy Fellow: Professor Lesley Head FASSA, FAHA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
  9. ↑ "Fellow Profile: Lesley Head". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 29 May 2024.
  10. ↑ Head, Lesley; Muir, Pat (2007). Backyard : nature and culture in suburban Australia. Wollongong : University of Wollongong Press. ISBN   9781920831516.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  11. ↑ "Review of 'Second Nature: The History and Implications of Australia as Aboriginal Landscape' by Lesley Head | Australian Archaeological Association | AAA". australianarchaeologicalassociation.com.au. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
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