Associate Professor Sally Weller

Associate Research Professor in Economic Restructuring UniSA Business

email Sally.Weller@unisa.edu.au

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About me

In the media

Date	Title
22/10/2020	Study to examine Geelong’s industrial past, https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/bellarinetimes/news/study-to-examine-geelongs-industrial-past/

Research

Research focus

Human Geography
Applied Economics
Economics
Policy and Administration
Urban and Regional Planning

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2022	Weller, S, Barnes, T & Kimberley, N 2022, 'Geographies of job quality', in C Warhurst, C Mathieu & RE Dwyer (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality, Oxford University Press, UK, ch. 9, pp. 203-219.
2021	Johnson, LC, Weller, S & Barnes, T 2021, '(Extra) Ordinary Geelong: state-led urban regeneration and economic revival', in JR Bryson, RV Kalafsky & V Vanchan (eds), Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies: People, Place and Space, Edward Elgar, US, ch. 5, pp. 85-107. Open access
2020	Weller, SA 2020, 'Dialectics of community and government', in A Campbell, M Duffy & B Edmondson (eds), Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges, Palgrave, UK, ch. 20, pp. 369-386. Open access 3
2016	O'Neill, P & Weller, S 2016, 'Neoliberalism in question', in S Springer, K Birch, & J MacLeavy (eds), The handbook of neoliberalism, Routledge, UK, ch. 7, pp. 84-92. 7
2015	Campbell, I & Weller, S 2015, 'Contextualised geographies of job quality', in A Knox & C Warhurst (eds), Job quality in Australia: perspectives, problems and proposals, Federation Press, Australia, ch. 5, pp. 84-102.
2015	Weller, S 2015, 'Manufacturing and labor', in J Bryson, J Clark & V Vanchan (eds), Handbook of manufacturing industries in the world economy, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 2, pp. 30-41. 2
2015	Weller, SA 2015, 'Trade fairs in peripheral places: towards a political economy of Australian fashion events', in H Bathelt & G Zeng (eds), Temporary knowledge ecologies: the rise of trade fairs in the Asia-Pacific region, Edward Elgar, UK, ch. 11, pp. 217-233.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2022	Irving, J, Beer, A, Weller, S & Barnes, T 2022, 'Plant closures in Australia's automotive industry: continuity and change', Regional Studies, Regional Science, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 5-22. Open access 4 4 6
2022	Weller, S & Beer, A 2022, 'State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia', Regional Studies, online, pp. 1-13. Open access 2 2 8
2022	Weller, S & Rainnie, A 2022, 'Not so 'smart'? An Australian experiment in smart specialisation', Geographical Research, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 300-313. 4 5 1
2022	Weller, S & Rainnie, A 2022, 'Regional assets and value capture trajectories: the growth and demise of an Australian automotive supplier', Review of International Political Economy, online, pp. 1-23. Open access
2021	Weller, S 2021, 'Places that matter: Australia's crisis intervention framework and voter response', Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 529-544. 4 4
2020	Barnes, T & Weller, SA 2020, 'Becoming precarious? Precarious work and life trajectories after retrenchment', Critical Sociology, vol. 46, no. 4-5, pp. 527-541. Open access 5 5 12
2019	Beer, A, Weller, S, Barnes, T, Onur, I, Ratcliffe, J, Bailey, D & Sotarauta, M 2019, 'The urban and regional impacts of plant closures: new methods and perspectives', Regional Studies, Regional Science, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 380-394. Open access 11 13 24
2019	Weller, SA 2019, 'Just transition? Strategic framing and the challenges facing coal dependent communities', Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 298-316. Open access 32 30
2018	Heap, L, Barnes, T & Weller, S 2018, 'De facto informality? Rethinking the experience of women in the formally regulated workplace', Labour and Industry: A Journal of the Social and Economic Relations of Work, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 115-129. 1 22
2018	Weller, S & Tierney, J 2018, 'Evidence in the networked governance of regional decarbonisation: a critical appraisal', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol. 77, no.2, pp. 280-293. Open access 6 5 1
2018	Weller, SA 2018, 'Globalisation, marketisation and the transformation of Australia's electricity sector', Australian Geographer, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 439-453. 5 4 6
2018	Weller, SA 2018, 'What is to be done? Reflections on Brian Palmer's 'approaching working-class history as struggle'', Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 477-480.
2017	Weller, S 2017, 'Fast Parallels? Contesting mobile policy technologies', International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, vol. 41, no. 5, pp. 821-837. Open access 9 9
2017	Weller, SA 2017, 'Accounting for skill shortages? Migration and the Australian labour market', Population Space and Place, vol. 23, no.2, article no. e1997, pp. 1-14. 9 9
2017	Weller, SA 2017, 'The geographical political economy of regional transformation in the Latrobe valley', Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 382-399. 4
2014	Weller, S & O'Neill, P 2014, 'Actually existing political economies', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 165-167. 3
2014	Weller, S & O'Neill, P 2014, 'An argument with neoliberalism: Australia's place in a global imaginary', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 105-130. 71 4
2014	Weller, S & O'Neill, P 2014, 'De-industrialisation, financialisation and Australia's macro-economic trap', Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 509 -526. 16 15 2
2014	Weller, SA 2014, 'Creativity or costs? Questioning New Zealand's fashion success: a methodological intervention', Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 721-737. 11 10
2013	O'Neill, PM & Weller, S 2013, 'To what extent has Australia's developmental trajectory been neoliberalist?', Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 69-84.
2013	Weller, S 2013, 'Consuming the city: public fashion festivals and the participatory economies of urban spaces in Melbourne, Australia', Urban Studies: An International Journal for Research in Urban Studies, vol. 50, no. 14, pp. 2853-2868. 21 15
2013	Weller, S, Smith, EF & Pritchard, B 2013, 'Family or enterprise? What shapes the business structures of Australian farming?', Australian Geographer, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 129-142. 13 12 1
2012	Weller, S & Van Hulten, A 2012, 'Gentrification and displacement: the effects of a housing crisis on Melbourne's low-income residents', Urban Policy and Research, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 25-42. 24 19 27
2012	Weller, S 2012, 'The regional dimensions of the 'transition to a low-carbon economy': the case of Australia's Latrobe Valley', Regional Studies, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1261-1272. Open access 22 18
2012	Weller, SA 2012, 'Commentary: Alice Bryer's politics of value creation', Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 36, no. 1-2, pp. 51-54.
2012	Weller, SA 2012, 'Financial stress and the long-term outcomes of job loss', Work Employment and Society, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 10-25. 21 17 4
2009	Weller, S 2009, 'Critical events and labour mobility: relocations in the wake of the Ansett Airlines collapse', Geographical Research. Open access 4 2
2009	Weller, SA 2009, 'Failure and strategic projects: Australia's Asia-Pacific vision', Geoforum, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 136-144. Open access 2 2
2009	Weller, SA 2009, 'Shifting spatialities of power: the case of Australasian aviation', Geoforum, vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 790-799. Open access 12 12
2008	Weller, S 2008, 'Beyond "Global production networks": Australian fashion week's trans-sectoral synergies', Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 104-122. Open access 68 47
2008	Weller, SA 2008, 'Are labour markets necessarily 'Local'? Spatiality, segmentation and scale', Urban Studies: An International Journal for Research in Urban Studies, vol. 45, no. 11, pp. 2203-2223. Open access 19 17

Reports

Year	Output
2021	Beer, A, Haslam-McKenzie, F, Weller, S, Davies, A, Cote, C, Ziemski, M, Holmes, K & Keenan, J 2021, Post-mining land uses - a literature review, CRC TiME Limited, Australia. Open access
2011	Weller, S, Sheehan, P & Tomaney, J 2011, The regional effects of pricing carbon emissions: an adjustment strategy for the Latrobe Valley: final report, Victoria University, Australia. Open access
2010	Rasmussen, B, Van Hulten, A, Maharaj, N, Sheehan, P, Welsh, A & Weller, S 2010, Updating Melbourne's West, Victoria University, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Australian Catholic University	AUSTRALIA
Australian National University	AUSTRALIA
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Flinders University	AUSTRALIA
Tampere University	FINLAND
University of Birmingham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Tampere	FINLAND
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA
Victoria University	AUSTRALIA
Western Sydney University	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
ACU Nominee ARC College of Experts	2018
Best Referee Oxford University Press Journal, Journal of Economic Geography	2016
Editorial Board Member Sage Journal Work and Employment and Society	2016
Editorial Board Member Oxford University Press Journal, Journal of Economic Geography	2014
Best Paper Award Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2013
Future Fellowship Australian Research Council (ARC)	2012
Chief Investigator, Linkage Grant Australian Research Council (ARC)	2011
Chief Investigator, Linkage Grant Australian Research Council (ARC)	2009
Dean Staff Research Award Victoria University	2009
Staff Award, Research (Individual) Victoria University	2009
Vice Chancellor Citation Research Excellence Award Victoria University	2009
Vice Chancellor Research Excellence Award Victoria University	2009
Best Presentation Award Victoria University	2008
Post Doctoral Research Award and Discovery Grant Australian Research Council (ARC)	2007

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Assembling Proximity: repurposed industrial sites as innovation precincts	Current
Inter-firm Composition Dynamics in Troubled Regions	Current
Working Lives After Retrenchment: A Study of Labour Branching	Current
Will diversification save regional economies after the exit of automotive production?	Completed

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Associate Professor Sally Weller

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Post Doctoral Research Award and Discovery Grant

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