Lesley Head FASSA FAHA (1957-[1]) is an Australian geographer specialising in human-environment relations.

[4] She was in the Victorian public service for two years, then became a tutor at Monash, then was offered a lectureship at the University of Wollongong.

She became a professor of geography at the University of Wollongong and spent 28 years there, also serving as department head and directing the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER).

[6] Head began her research career using palaeoecology and archaeology to study long term changes in the Australian landscape, then becoming more interested in human-environment relations and moving to research Aboriginal land use, ethnobotany and fire.

More recently, she has focused on relationships between humans and plants, such as backyard gardens, and issues of sustainability and climate change.