Jeff Hopkins-Weise is a professional historian with a strong interest and background in Australian, New Zealand and Pacific history. Australian born, Jeff grew up in Brisbane, and studied at the University of Queensland where he has attained three degrees and specialised in history.
Jeff has a background in cultural heritage reseearch and management while engaged in various capacities for the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and teh Environmental Protection Agency, and most recently with curatorial and collection management roles with the Queensland Museum, and teh Main Roads Heritage Centre in Toowoomba for the Queensland Department of Main Roads. In early 2008, he received a three year appointment as an Honorary research Fellow for the Queensland Museum.
Jeff holds membership with various historical organisations and professional bodies, and is currently President of the Professional historians Assocation (Queensland).
He has a teenage son Kurt, who is about to start his own university studies, and a loving archaeoolgist partner, Elspeth.
