Rate My Professor Jacob Hawkins

Hawkins' research specializations include agricultural economics, agribusiness, energy economics, environmental economics, input-output analysis, agriculture land and farm management, applied economics, climate change impacts and adaptation, and curriculum and pedagogy. His scholarly output features the editorship of the open textbook "Global Agricultural Sustainability & Food Security" (Curtin Pressbooks), co-authorship of "Programmatic assessment: a literature review of challenges, opportunities and useful tools to support student transition to the workplace" (Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025), "ePortfolios for students in agriculture/agribusiness disciplines" (2023), "Using Group Collaborative Investigations to Develop Pasture Biomass Prediction Equations" (2022), and "Developing and Demonstrating an Augmented Reality Colorimetric Experiment in General Chemistry" (Journal of Chemical Education, 2018). With 395 citations on Google Scholar, his work impacts agricultural education and economics. Hawkins contributed to Version 2 of the Threshold Learning Outcomes for Agriculture and is recognized with his agriculture team for teaching excellence and producing industry-ready graduates, including acknowledgments from Curtin Molecular and Life Sciences and involvement in Australasian University Agriculture Education Awards nominations. He supervises higher degree research students and advances research in agricultural economics at Curtin.