Rate My Professor Kim de Rijke

De Rijke's career at the University of Queensland includes postdoctoral research fellowship, lecturing, and advancement to senior lecturer, with principal and associate supervision of PhD candidates on topics such as contested water values, climate change and cultural heritage, and Indigenous landholder corporatisation. Funding secured includes the Centre for Native Title Anthropology Native Title Anthropologist Grant Program (2025-2028), Gaangalu Nation additional native title inputs (2014-2026), UQ Early Career Researcher grant for foraging theory research (2019-2021), and UniQuest projects for native title connection reports and cultural heritage. Key publications comprise journal articles including The Golden Age of Gas and the energy crisis (Anthropology Today, 2022), Produced water, money water, living water: anthropological perspectives on water and fracking (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 2018), Energy, anthropology and ethnography: on the challenges of studying unconventional gas developments in Australia (Energy Research and Social Science, 2018), Hydraulically fractured: unconventional gas and anthropology (Anthropology Today, 2013), and book chapters such as Drilling down comparatively: resource histories, subterranean unconventional gas and diverging social responses in two Australian regions (Pluto Press, 2019) and Cultural domains and the theory of customary environmentalism in Indigenous Australia (ANU Press, 2016). De Rijke has presented conference papers on gendered knowledge in native title, unconventional gas on Indigenous estates, and key concepts in native title law and custom.