Rate My Professor Julie Weaver

Dr Julie Weaver serves as the Senior Research and Policy Analyst within the Academic Division of the University of Otago. She joined the Academic Divisional office in February 2023, where she provides strategic research and policy advice and analysis to support the University’s strategic objectives. Prior to this role, Dr Weaver held a variety of academic and professional roles at the University of Otago. In 2013, she served as Programme Manager for New Zealand's first Master of Dietetics programme, overseeing the graduation of the initial cohort of students. Programme Manager Dr Julie Weaver noted that the students who graduated were a transition group who entered the programme before it became a taught masters. Subsequently, she led the Student Development Group, contributing to initiatives including a new approach for student advice in 2019, aimed at equipping students to succeed at Otago and beyond, and major improvements to the eVision Change of Course process in 2021, which she described as empowering students and the biggest upgrade to eVision to date.

Dr Weaver participates in university governance as an attendee of the Committee for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching. She has contributed to research as a member of the Longitudinal Interprofessional Study Group. Key publications include the 2022 BMJ Open paper 'Longitudinal impact of preregistration interprofessional education on the attitudes and skills of health professionals during their early careers: a non-randomised trial with 4-year outcomes', which assessed a 5-week Tairāwhiti IPE immersion programme's effects on final-year health students from disciplines such as dentistry, dietetics, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physiotherapy, and radiation therapy, demonstrating significant and sustained improvements in attitudes towards healthcare teams and team skills over four years. She also contributed to the 2018 BMJ Open protocol for this quasi-experimental study. Dr Weaver has been acknowledged for administrative support in multiple theses related to nutrition, dietetics, and health research.