Rate My Professor Jen Evans

Professor Jen Evans is Professor (Aboriginal Health Leadership) in the College of Health and Medicine at the University of Tasmania, based in Pataway/Burnie, Lutruwita/Tasmania. A Dharug scholar with connections to Dharug and Palawa Country, Evans holds a PhD in Geography and Spatial Sciences (2016), a Graduate Certificate in Research (2016), Bachelor of Architecture with Honours (1999), and Bachelor of Environmental Design (1992), all from the University of Tasmania. Her academic career has evolved from environmental design and spatial sciences to leadership in Aboriginal health, serving as an Aboriginal Research Fellow in the Rural Clinical School and contributing to the Public Health and Health Systems research group in the Tasmanian School of Medicine.

Evans is an internationally recognised expert in Indigenous and decolonising methodologies, bringing progressive BlaQ perspectives to her work on health justice and equity for First Peoples. Her research focuses on the cultural determinants of health, BlaQ/k storywork as an anti-colonial truth-telling methodology, Queer Indigenous standpoint theory, and issues such as flourishing in protected areas, land use conflicts, and support for Indigenous queer and gender diverse students in higher education. Key publications include "Justice for Country: 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), "Understanding the cultural, social and political determinants of Aboriginal health data governance in Australia" (2026, Lowitja Journal of Indigenous Health), "Queer(y)ing Indigenous Australian higher education student support services for BlaQ/k students" (2021), and "A Reciprocal Triangulation Process For Identifying And Mapping Potential Land Use Conflict" (2018). Evans received the Tasmanian Premier’s Literature Award in 2022 for her academic work on Queer Indigenous voices and serves on the University of Tasmania's Academic Senate until 2027. As an Aboriginal Literary Fellow, she advances decolonising scholarship through transdisciplinary approaches.