He Waka Tāngata group member biographies
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Members
Mentors
Members
Dr Paul Hirini
Paul Hirini is a leading Māori mental health researcher, educator and practitioner. His most recent appointment was as a Clinical Academic Psychologist with Deakin University’s School of Psychology and Eastern Health’s Adult Mental Health Program in Melbourne, Australia.
Paul has a PhD from Massey, an MA (AppClinPsych), and a BA (Hons) from Victoria University.
Paul has had various university appointments as a Senior Lecturer and Senior Researcher at Massey University’s Schools of Psychology and Māori Studies (i.e., Te-Pūtahi-ā-Toi). He has extensive experience as a Clinical Psychologist in hospital and community settings and considerable experience in managing major research projects, including former roles as National Trainer for the New Zealand Casemix Classification and Mental Health Outcome Study (i.e., NZ-CaOS); the Principal Investigator for the Māori component of the National Survey in Mental Health and Wellbeing (i.e., Te Rau Hinengaro) and has contributed to strategic development in Māori health and mental health at both local and national levels (e.g., former National Clinical Coordinator for Te Rau Matatini).
Paul has active links with the Māori community on a national and international level. He belongs to the Ngāti Huia ki Poroutāwhao and Muaupoko tribes of his hometown, Levin (i.e., Taitoko) in the Horowhenua.
Paul’s personal interests include the ocean, water sports, rugby union and being with friends & family.
Dr Chrys Horn
Chrys Horn works in Landcare Research's Collaborative Learning for Environmental Management Group. The group focuses on how people from different backgrounds including science disciplines can collaborate to solve complex problems in which they have a stake. This work involves working with a range people to research processes such as capacity building, community development, evaluation, adult learning, and adaptive management in the areas of resource management, environmental and social sustainability, and economic development.
Chrys sees herself as something of a generalist who aspires to working in transdisciplinary settings. She completed her PhD from Lincoln University in 2002 in which she used a complex systems lens to understand how communities evolve with tourism. She was privileged to be part of a multi-disciplinary team looking at tourism’s impacts in a range of New Zealand communities. She has a Masters of Parks and Recreation Management (Hons.) from Lincoln University and before moving into social science research, gained a BSc in Botany from Canterbury University. Before becoming involved in research, she was worked in farming, conservation and tourism.
She is a member of the Australia-New Zealand Evaluation Association (ANZEA) the NZ Action Research Network and the New Zealand Biosecurity Institute and the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society and the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust. She leads the Te Tapoitanga Māori (Growing regional Māori Tourism) research programme at Landcare Research and over the last 2-3 years has worked with groups involved in Pest and Weed management, biodiversity management, biosystematics and the development of a Possum biotechnological control.
Chrys’s other interests include sustainable living, tramping, cycling, gardening and handcrafts.
Associate Professor David Johnston
David Johnston is a senior scientist at GNS Science, in the Hazards and Society Group and has recently been appointed Director of the Joint Centre for Disaster Research in the School of Psychology at Massey University. This is a joint venture between Massey University and GNS Science. His work is part of multi-disciplinary theoretical and applied research team, involving the collaboration of physical and social scientists from several organizations and countries. Recent research on warning systems has focused on flood alert systems in New Zealand and Australia, tsunami warnings in New Zealand, Hawaii and Washington State and extensive work on volcanic warnings worldwide. As part of their research the group has developed long-term relationships with a wide number of end-users through research, consulting and out-reach activities.
David gained his MSc with honours in Geology from the University of Canterbury in 1990 and PhD in Emergency Management at Massey University in 1997. His PhD scholarship was funded by GNS Science. He joined GNS Science fulltime after his PhD in 1998.
He is Leader, Cities and Volcanoes Commission, International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior since 2001, a member of the Editorial Board of The Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies, outreach co-ordinator for the EQC-funded GeoNet Project, and a member of the Steering Group of the Auckland Engineering Lifelines Group and Co-founder of their Volcanic Impacts Study Group.
David's other interests include being on volcanoes and other mountains, (walking, tramping, skiing, climbing), travelling, photography and reading.
Dr Suzi Kerr
Suzi Kerr has been Director and Senior Fellow at Motu: Economic and Public Policy Research since November 1998 when she returned to New Zealand after an extensive period of study and work in the United States.
She graduated from Harvard University in 1995 with a PhD in Economics. Following that she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland from 1995 through 1998. She has been a visiting scholar at Resources for the Future (USA) and Victoria University. From Jan - August 2001 she was a visiting scholar in the Joint Center for the Science and Policy of Global Change at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. During 2006 she took a sabbatical combined with maternity leave in Valdivia in the south of Chile. Before leaving New Zealand in 1990 she did her honours degree in economics at Canterbury and then worked as a housing analyst at the New Zealand Treasury.
Her current research work empirically and theoretically investigates domestic and international emissions trading issues with special emphasis on land use and climate change in both the tropics and New Zealand, domestic carbon permit market design, nutrient trading in Lake Rotorua, and the New Zealand Fisheries Individual Transferable Quota system. Her work involves theoretical analysis, simulation modeling, econometric analysis and policy design. She works closely with researchers from several Crown Research Institutes through a collaborative network, Ecoclimate.
She is fascinated by the challenge of solving policy problems, but also likes to stay well grounded in empirical reality. Outside of work, she loves hanging out with her daughters Manu and Roma and her partner Norman, planting trees and putzing in her garden and, when she gets a chance, enjoys white-water kayaking and tramping, as well as listening to Norman play Jazz.
Dr Nick Lewis
Nicolas Lewis is a senior lecturer at the School of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, The University of Auckland. A political/economic geographer, Nick studies the geographies of governance, or as he puts it ‘the ways in which government agencies influence decision making in multiple and dispersed settings’. Nick’s PhD research examined the work of the Education Review Office in these terms.
Over the last five years, Nick has turned his attention to industry governance and state interests in building particular industries. He has studied the development of the New Zealand wine, designer fashion, and international education industries. Awarded a Science and Technology Post-Doctoral Fellowship to study industry governance in 2001, Nick has recently been awarded a Fast-Start Marsden Grant to study the ‘arts and architecture of Brand New Zealand’ (focusing on wine and international education).
Drawing on a diverse disciplinary background, Nick’s work is characterised both by its transdisciplinarity and by its collaborative foundations. Most of his research is conducted in inter-disciplinary domestic and international research teams. These commitments have been carried into Nick’s work as a prominent member of the BRCSS Research College. He has led BRCSS’ ‘emerging researcher’ initiatives and serves on its Management Committee.
Nick also serves on the editorial board of two international journals and is a member of the steering committee of the Global Knowledge Spaces Network, an international initiative to study the globalisation of education. Closer to home, Nick is Director of the Wine Industry Research Institute and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Development Studies, both at The University of Auckland. He serves on the Auckland Geography Teachers’ Association, teaches across several departments, and enjoys working with many postgraduate students.
Away from the office, meeting rooms, conferences, and lecture halls, Nick spends his time with his three young daughters and partner, Heather. In winter months he can be seen on the back-fields kicking a ball around on Saturday afternoons with other aging and expanding would-have-been Winton Rufers.
Dr Ruth McManus
Ruth McManus is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology and Anthropology at University of Canterbury. Her Qualifications include:- MA (Hons) Sociology, Glasgow University, Scotland
- MA Women's Studies, Kent University, England
- PhD Sociology, Massey University, New Zealand
Ruth McManus has two interlinked research areas: death and dying, and governance. These interests have taken her into issues associated with social policy; governmentality theory; globalisation; identity, embodiment and citizenship. She has initiated a broad research agenda called “Death in a Global Age” that focuses on ways in which everyday dying death and grieving experiences are under reconfiguration through the lens of globality. The impetus behind this research agenda is to build the profile of research and teaching on the sociology of death and dying in New Zealand and make contribution to internationally recognised research into contemporary death practices. ‘Death in a global age’ aims to encompass specific explorations of contemporary everyday death practices that to date include two existing projects. Caring for the dead is an ongoing writing project with photographer Bridgit Anderson based on her photo exhibition Caring for the Dead. Caring for the dead involves an engagement with funeral directors and an observation of the journey of the deceased from time of death to bodily disposal through photo image and text.
The second project 'Between a Rock and a Hard Place' examines the everyday ways that local authorities understand and deal with emergent trends in bodily disposal in environmentally conscious and ethnically diverse ways. This has involved a country comparison between New Zealand and Scottish and has looked at the ways in which the move to more inclusive governance has directly impacted upon trends in bodily disposal. The research is linked to similar projects conducted through the University of Sheffield, University of York, University of Glasgow Caledonia and the University of Brighton in the UK.
Ruth’s personal interests are home life, mountain biking and small farming.
Dr Lesley Patterson
Lesley Patterson is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work Massey University, Wellington
Her qualifications include:
BEd (University of Waikato)
Dip Women’s Studies (University of Waikato)
BA (Hons) Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington
PhD Sociology, Victoria University of Wellington
Lesley’s research work focuses on the intersections between family life and paid work in the context of contemporary citizenship discourses that privilege work-active subjects. Lesley’s research programme currently includes two qualitative longitudinal studies: ‘Forty low-income lone mothers’; and ‘New parents – the first five years’. Both panels are in their second year, and both run until 2010. In addition, Lesley has an interest in narrative analysis, and is currently completing ‘Life Lines’, a project exploring the ‘imagined futures’ of Year 13 students in relation to family, friendship and intimacy across their life course.
Lesley enjoys tramping and yoga.
Dr Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in the Politics Programme at Massey University’s Palmerston North campus, and teaches courses in New Zealand politics and public policy.
His first degree was in social work. After several years of front line practice, a change of career seemed an increasingly attractive proposition, so he returned to Massey where he completed a Masters degree in Social Policy and a PhD in Politics. His doctoral research tested (and found wanting) a rational choice model of institutional reform in the context of New Zealand state sector reform. Since graduation, he has continued digging about in the executive branch of government. Most recently, with Dr Chris Eichbaum from Victoria University, he has completed a Marsden Fund project exploring the policy roles and influence of Ministerial Advisors in New Zealand Cabinet Ministers’ offices. In addition, he has an ongoing interest in the various consequences of electoral law reform, and in Maori parliamentary representation.
When he isn’t at work, he can be found working as an unpaid taxi driver for his two daughters, or at a local dance studio plugging away (with limited success) on his ear/eye/feet co-ordination.
Dr Karen Vaughan
Karen Vaughan is a Senior Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research where she has built up and leads the research programme on careers and youth transition. This work includes two important longitudinal studies, one on young people’s career pathway experiences and perspectives in the five years after leaving school, and another on young people’s sense of connection to school, family/whānau and community. She leads several other studies on school-based careers guidance systems and on the relationship between gender and career decisions for young people.
In collaboration with researchers from three tertiary institutions, she has also developed a major research project on the links between education and employment for young people, which has just won funding for five years from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.
Her work over the past five years has directly influenced a number of high-profile education policy initiatives. Her expertise is recognised in the advice and professional development sessions she is invited to provide for government agencies, tertiary institutions, and industry bodies. She’s also a keynote and invitational speaker at many industry training, careers, and education conferences.
Karen is one of several New Zealand representatives at the invitation-only International Symposium on Careers and Public Policy. She has been published locally and internationally on youth transition and careers development, qualitative and mixed method research methodology, alternative education, and training strategies for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). She completed her PhD in Education at the University of Auckland in 2001.
Originally an Auckland Westie chick, Karen has a Heavy Traffic license but her transport of choice these days is her scooter, “Biscuit”. Prior to joining NZCER she had her own software development business, and has worked as a research consultant, law secretary, and house-painter. Karen loves tramping, kayaking, bodyboarding and vegetable gardening, and gets really grouchy when she’s hungry.
Mentors
Professor Richard Bedford
Professor Richard Bedford is Professor of Population Geography and Director of the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato. He is also Director of a national cross-university initiative, funded by the Tertiary Education Commission, the Building Research Capability in the Social Sciences (BRCSS) Network. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Auckland and his PhD was completed in 1971 in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. He is a specialist in migration studies and since the mid-1960s he has been researching processes of population movement in the Asia-Pacific region. He has published extensively on aspects of migration and is a regular contributor to debates about immigration policy in New Zealand.
During the 1980s Professor Bedford was the Convenor of the Population Monitoring Group of the former New Zealand Planning Council. In 1990 he was awarded the NZ 1990 Medal for services of New Zealand, and in 2000 was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Between 1995 and 2003 he was a member of the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, and Chair of the Commission’s Social Sciences Sub-Commission. Since 1996 he has been the New Zealand Immigration Service’s representative on the inter-governmental International Metropolis Project, and the Royal Society of New Zealand’s contact point with the International Geographical Union (IGU). He is the secretary of the IGU Commission on Population and Vulnerability. Between 2001 and 2003 he was academic adviser to the Ministerial Advisory Group on Immigration. He currently chairs the intergovernmental Social Policy Evaluation and Research Committee (SPEaR), and is a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Official Statistics (ACOS).
Bryan Gould
Bryan was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1962 and this took him to Oxford where he added two more qualifications (BCL (Oxon) First Class Honours and LLM) to those already gained in New Zealand (BA, LLB (NZ) (BA in History) (Victoria and Auckland Universities) and LLM (Auck) First Class Honours). From there he joined the Foreign Office before becoming and academic at the University of Oxford where he was a Fellow and tutor of law at Worcester College. His career in the British Labour party grew steadily in the 1970’s and 1980’s before Bryan was defeated as a candidate for the Labour Party leadership in 1992. His position as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Waikato commenced in 1994 and he continued in this role until his retirement in 2004. Bryan is the author of several books and continues to write. He was recognised for his services to New Zealand education with a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2005. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Waikato University in 2006. Bryan currently chairs the board of the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.
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