Sally Weller

APrf Sally Weller

School of Accounting and Finance

College of Business and Law

Sally Weller is an economic geographer and economic sociologist with research interests focused on labour markets, regional development and Australia’s evolving political economy. She is accomplishing in both qualitative and quantitative social research. Sally has conducted three major longitudinal studies of labour market restructuring, has published more than 60 papers in quality peer-reviewed journals and earned more than $3 million in research grants and consultancies.
She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the ZFW Economic Geography and Journal of Economic Geography, and previously on Work Employment and Society. Sally’s work links questions of urban and regional development to issues of social and spatial justice in an increasingly unequal world.

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2025 Irving, J., Beer, A., Weller, S., Barnes, T., Washington, L., & Dinmore, H. (2025). Australian automotive workers and community leaders interview dataset following 2017 assembly plant closures. Scientific data, 12(1), 1-7.
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2025 Irving, J., Beer, A., Weller, S., Barnes, T., Onur, I., Ratcliffe, J., . . . Vij, A. (2025). A longitudinal dataset of retrenched automotive workers in Australia. Scientific Data, 12(1, article no. 1113), 1-10.
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2024 Beer, A., Weller, S., Dinmore, H., Ratcliffe, J., Onur, I., Bailey, D., . . . Sotarauta, M. (2024). Just transitions in the Australian automotive sector?. Contemporary Social Science, 19(1-3), 178-198.
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2024 Weller, S., Beer, A., & Porter, J. (2024). Place-based just transition: domains, components and costs. Contemporary Social Science, 19(1-3), 355-374.
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2024 Tierney, J., Weller, S., Barnes, T., & Beer, A. (2024). Left-behind neighbourhoods in old industrial regions. Regional Studies, 58(6), 1192-1206.
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2024 Vij, A., Washington, L., Weller, S., Irving, J., & Onur, I. (2024). Labour market preferences of retrenched Australian auto industry workers for job quality and meaningful work*. Economic Record, 100(329), 209-233.
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2023 Weller, S., & Rainnie, A. (2023). Regional assets and value capture trajectories: the growth and demise of an Australian automotive supplier. Review of International Political Economy, 30(5), 1776-1798.
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2023 Weller, S. (2023). Greensill Capital and the securitisation of supply chain financing. Area Development and Policy, 8(4), 398-415.
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2023 Weller, S., & Beer, A. (2023). State structures and the limits of agency: governing the transformation from coal in Australia. Regional Studies, 57(8), 1415-1427.
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2022 Irving, J., Beer, A., Weller, S., & Barnes, T. (2022). Plant closures in Australia's automotive industry: continuity and change. Regional Studies, Regional Science, 9(1), 5-22.
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2022 Weller, S., & Rainnie, A. (2022). Not so 'smart'? An Australian experiment in smart specialisation. Geographical Research, 60(2), 300-313.
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2021 Weller, S. (2021). Places that matter: Australia's crisis intervention framework and voter response. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 14(3), 529-544.
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2020 Weller, S. A. (2020). The politicization of research methods, illustrated in the case of plant closures. Zeitschrift fur Wirtschaftsgeographie, 64(3), 109-120.
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2020 Barnes, T., & Weller, S. A. (2020). Becoming precarious? Precarious work and life trajectories after retrenchment. Critical Sociology, 46(4-5), 527-541.
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2019 Weller, S. A. (2019). Just transition? Strategic framing and the challenges facing coal dependent communities. Environment and planning C, 37(2), 298-316.
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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, 6(1), 380-394.
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2018 Weller, S. A. (2018). Globalisation, marketisation and the transformation of Australia's electricity sector. Australian geographer, 49(3), 439-453.
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2018 Heap, L., Barnes, T., & Weller, S. (2018). De facto informality? Rethinking the experience of women in the formally regulated workplace. Labour and industry, 28(2), 115-129.
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2018 Weller, S., & Tierney, J. (2018). Evidence in the networked governance of regional decarbonisation: a critical appraisal. Australian journal of public administration, 77(2), 280-293.
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2018 Weller, S. A. (2018). What is to be done? Reflections on Brian Palmer's 'approaching working-class history as struggle'. Dialectical anthropology, 42(4), 477-480.
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2017 Weller, S. A. (2017). Accounting for skill shortages? Migration and the Australian labour market. Population, space and place, 23(2, article no. e1997), 1-14.
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2017 Weller, S. A. (2017). The geographical political economy of regional transformation in the Latrobe valley. Australasian journal of regional studies, 23(3), 382-399.
2017 Weller, S. (2017). Fast Parallels? Contesting mobile policy technologies. International journal of urban and regional research, 41(5), 821-837.
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2014 Weller, S., & O'Neill, P. (2014). De-industrialisation, financialisation and Australia's macro-economic trap. Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society, 7(3), 509-526.
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2014 Weller, S. A. (2014). Creativity or costs? Questioning New Zealand's fashion success: a methodological intervention. Journal of economic geography, 14(4), 721-737.
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2014 Weller, S., & O'Neill, P. (2014). Actually existing political economies. Dialogues in human geography, 4(2), 165-167.
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2014 Weller, S., & O'Neill, P. (2014). An argument with neoliberalism: Australia's place in a global imaginary. Dialogues in human geography, 4(2), 105-130.
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2013 Weller, S. (2013). Consuming the city: public fashion festivals and the participatory economies of urban spaces in Melbourne, Australia. Urban studies, 50(14), 2853-2868.
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2013 Weller, S., Smith, E. F., & Pritchard, B. (2013). Family or enterprise? What shapes the business structures of Australian farming?. Australian geographer, 44(2), 129-142.
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2013 O'Neill, P. M., & Weller, S. (2013). To what extent has Australia's developmental trajectory been neoliberalist?. Human geography, 6(2), 69-84.
2012 Weller, S. A. (2012). Commentary: Alice Bryer's politics of value creation. Dialectical Anthropology, 36(1-2), 51-54.
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2012 Weller, S. (2012). The regional dimensions of the 'transition to a low-carbon economy': the case of Australia's Latrobe Valley. Regional studies, 46(9), 1261-1272.
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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, 30(1), 25-42.
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2012 Weller, S. A. (2012). Financial stress and the long-term outcomes of job loss. Work, employment and society, 26(1), 10-25.
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2009 Weller, S. A. (2009). Shifting spatialities of power: the case of Australasian aviation. Geoforum, 40(5), 790-799.
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2009 Weller, S. A. (2009). Failure and strategic projects: Australia's Asia-Pacific vision. Geoforum, 40(2), 136-144.
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2009 Weller, S. (2009). Critical events and labour mobility: relocations in the wake of the Ansett Airlines collapse. Geographical research, 47(3), 242-255.
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2008 Weller, S. A. (2008). Are labour markets necessarily 'Local'? Spatiality, segmentation and scale. Urban studies, 45(11), 2203-2223.
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2008 Weller, S. (2008). Beyond "Global production networks": Australian fashion week's trans-sectoral synergies. Growth and change, 39(1), 104-122.
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Year Citation
2022 Weller, S., Barnes, T., & Kimberley, N. (2022). Geographies of job quality. In C. Warhurst, C. Mathieu, & R. E. Dwyer (Eds.), Source details - Title: The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality (pp. 203-219). UK: Oxford University Press.
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2021 Johnson, L. C., Weller, S., & Barnes, T. (2021). (Extra) Ordinary Geelong: state-led urban regeneration and economic revival. In J. R. Bryson, R. V. Kalafsky, & V. Vanchan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies: People, Place and Space (pp. 85-107). US: Edward Elgar.
2020 Weller, S. A. (2020). Dialectics of community and government. In A. Campbell, M. Duffy, & B. Edmondson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Located Research: Regional Places, Transitions and Challenges (pp. 369-386). UK: Palgrave.
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2019 Weller, S. A. (2019). Melbourne. In A. Orum (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Wiley Blackwell encyclopedia of urban and regional studies (pp. 1-6). UK: John Wiley & Sons.
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2016 O'Neill, P., & Weller, S. (2016). Neoliberalism in question. In S. Springer, K. Birch, & J. MacLeavy (Eds.), Source details - Title: The handbook of neoliberalism (pp. 84-92). UK: Routledge.
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2015 Weller, S. A. (2015). Trade fairs in peripheral places: towards a political economy of Australian fashion events. In H. Bathelt, & G. Zeng (Eds.), Source details - Title: Temporary knowledge ecologies: the rise of trade fairs in the Asia-Pacific region (pp. 217-233). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2015 Weller, S. (2015). Manufacturing and labor. In J. Bryson, J. Clark, & V. Vanchan (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of manufacturing industries in the world economy (pp. 30-41). UK: Edward Elgar.
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2015 Weller, S., & Campbell, I. (2015). Contextualised geographies of job quality. In A. Knox, & C. Warhurst (Eds.), Source details - Title: Job quality in Australia: perspectives, problems and proposals (pp. 84-102). Australia: Federation Press.

  • Future Work, Future Communities: The Impacts of Industry Restructuring, ARC - Linkage Project, 21/01/2019 - 30/06/2025

  • BuildSkills Australia Late Changers Study, BuildSkills Australia Ltd, 14/05/2024 - 31/12/2024

  • APR intern project - Climate Action Plan: investigating Community Batteries, AMSI-APR Intern, 18/09/2023 - 18/12/2023

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