Jenny Weston

Jennifer Faith Weston is a New Zealand veterinary scientist, and as of 2023 is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in dairy animals and their diseases.

Academic career

Weston graduated as a veterinarian from Massey University in 1994, and then spent eight years practising in Taranaki, on dairy animals. Weston then joined the faculty of Massey University as a clinical teacher in 2002, running the Farm Services Clinic, and rising to full professor in 2022. Weston has led the Bachelor of Veterinary Science programme at Massey since 2016, In 2015 she wrote a report on the First International Symposium for Veterinary Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.

Weston served one term as President of New Zealand Veterinary Association.

In 2009 she won the Young Dairy Scientist Communication Award at the Large Herds Conference, for a paper on Neospora caninum in dairy cattle.

Selected works