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Professor Eric John Pawson

Geography

Fields of Research

  • Earthquake social research
  • Environmental history
  • Rural change and biological economies
  • Scholarship of learning and teaching

Researcher Summary

* post earthquake research in Canterbury, funded by the CEISMIC project for a study of mobile lives, and by a UC Earthquake Doctoral scholarship for a critical analysis of the role of service-learning in post disaster situations

* environmental histories of New Zealand: a team project of that name published in 2002 and being revised for re-publication, and a Marsden funded investigation assessing processes of transformation of New Zealand's landscapes into exotic grasslands within an imperial trading network

* rural landscapes and biological economies: a Marsden funded project assessing the creation of new values in the food and fibre industries in the New Zealand countryside (specifically Central Otago and Hawkes Bay) and the potential for moving beyond commodity production into added value activities

* scholarship of learning and teaching, specifically critical assessment of the role and place of active learning pedagogies such as service-learning, problem-based learning and their internationalisation

Subject Area: Disciplines

Affiliations

Prizes and Awards

  • Distinguished Service Medal, New Zealand Geographical Society (2010)
  • National tertiary teaching excellence award (2009)
  • University of Canterbury Teaching Award (2008)
  • Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal (2007)
  • Marsden grant, Biological Economies, 2010-2013 (2010-2013)
  • Marsden grant, Empires of Grass, 2004-07 (2004-present)
  • NZ Historical Atlas: prizes (1999)

Publications


  • Pawson, E. (2012) Creating taste at a distance: the 'home' market and New Zealand food and fibre exports before 1930. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic: XV International Conference of Historical Geographers, 6-10 Aug 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pawson, E. (2012) Exploring the meaning of landscape in environmental history. Napier, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society Conference (NZGS), 3-6 Dec 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pawson, E. (2012) From empire to New Zealand Inc: agri-food pasts and futures. Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand: Agri-Food: XIX Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Agri-Food Network, 10-13 Dec 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pawson, E. (2012) Kenneth Cumberland (1913-2011). In H. Lorimer and C.W.J. Withers (Ed.), Geographers Volume 31: Biobibliographical Studies: 137-160. London: Bloomsbury. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2012) Kenneth Cumberland as a public geographer. Napier, New Zealand: New Zealand Geographical Society Conference (NZGS), 3-6 Dec 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pawson, E. and Perkins, H. (2012) Merino, metrologies and marketing: a South Island, New Zealand, case study. Lisbon, Portugal: XIII World Congress of Rural Sociology, 29 Jul-4 Aug 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pawson, E. and Christensen, A.A. (2012) Narrating an unstable landscape: improvement, adaptation and alignment on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia: Rethinking Invasion Ecologies: Natures, Cultures and Societies in the Age of the Anthropocene, 18-19 Jun 2012. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pawson, E. (2012) Working in groups. In Phillips, R. and Johns, J. (Ed.), Fieldwork for Human Geography: 89-90. London: Sage. (Chapter in Book)
  • Brooking, T. and Pawson, E. (2011) Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand. London: I.B. Tauris. 296pp. (Authored Book)
  • Arrowsmith, C., Bagoly-Simó, P., Finchum, A., Oda, K. and Pawson, E. (2011) Student employability and its implications for geography curricula and learning practices. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 35(3): 365-377. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2011.563379. (Journal Article)
  • Healey, M., Pawson, E. and Solem, M. (Ed.) (2010) Active Learning and Student Engagement: International Perspectives and Practices in Geography in Higher Education. London: Routledge. 232pp. (Edited Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2010) Economy and the environment. In J. Phillips (Ed.), Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Economy and the City: The Economy: Online. Wellington: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/economy-and-the-environment. (Chapter in Book)
  • O'Steen, B., Perry, L., Cammock, P., Kingham, S., Pawson, E., Stowell, R. and Perry, D. (2010) Engaging teachers and learners through service-learning. In K. Weir and P. Coolbear (Ed.), Good Practice Publication Grants e-book: Online. Wellington: Ako Aotearoa. (Chapter in Book)
  • DeLyser, D. and Pawson, E. (2010) From personal to public: Communicating qualitative research for public consumption. In I. Hay (Ed.), Qualitative Research Methods in Geography (3rd ed.): 356-367. Don Mills: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Healey, M., Pawson, E. and Solem, M. (2010) Introduction. In M. Healey, E. Pawson and M. Solem (Ed.), Active Learning and Student Engagement: 1-7. Abingdon: Routledge. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E., Healey, M. and Solem, M. (2010) Reflecting on student engagement. In M. Healey, E. Pawson and M. Solem (Ed.), Active Learning and Student Engagement: 208-214. Abingdon: Routledge. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2009) Aboriginality. In The Dictionary of Human Geography: 1-2. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Dictionary Entry. (Other)
  • Pawson, E. (2009) Austral(as)ia, idea of. In The Dictionary of Human Geography: 39-40. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. Dictionary Entry. (Other)
  • Pawson, E. and Perkins, H. (2009) Commentary: changing places. New Zealand Journal of Forestry 54(1): 7-8. (Journal Article)
  • Campbell, H., Burton, R., Cooper, M., Henry, M., Le Heron, E., Le Heron, R., Lewis, N., Pawson, E., Perkins, H., Roche, M., Rosin, C. and White, T. (2009) From agricultural science to "biological economies"? New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research 52: 91-97. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E., Fournier, E., Haigh, M., Muniz, O. and Vajoczki, S. (2008) Assessing the uses and value of PBL in geography. Academic Exchange Quarterly 12(1): 205-210. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (2008) Biotic exchange in an imperial world: developments in the grass seed trade. In C. Stringer, and R. Le Heron (Ed.), Agri-Food Commodity Chains and Globalising Networks (The Dynamics of Economic Space): 229-239. Aldershot: Ashgate. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Brooking, T. (2008) Empires of grass: Towards an environmental history of New Zealand agriculture. British Review of New Zealand Studies 17: 95-114. (Journal Article)
  • Wood, V. and Pawson, E. (2008) Information Exchange and the Making of the Colonial Farm: Agricultural Periodicals in Late Nineteenth-Century New Zealand. Agricultural History 82(3): 337-365. http://dx.doi.org/10.3098/ah.2008.82.3.337. (Journal Article)
  • Cloke, P. and Pawson, E. (2008) Memorial trees and treescape memories. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 26(1): 107-122. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d79j. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. and Holland, P. (2008) People, environment and landscape since the 1840s. In M. Winterbourne, G. Knox, C. Burrows and I. Marsden (Ed.), The Natural History of Canterbury (3rd ed.): 37-64. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2008) Textbooks that moved generations: Gottmann, J. 1961: Megalopolis. The urbanized northeastern seaboard of the United States. New York: The Twentieth Century Fund. Progress in Human Geography 32(3): 441-444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132508089097. (Journal Article)
  • Wood, V. and Pawson, E. (2008) The Banks Peninsula forests and Akaroa cocksfoot: Explaining a New Zealand forest transition. Environment and History 14(4): 449-468. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734008X368394. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (2007) Regional journals and ways of seeing the world: Reflections from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Scottish Geographical Journal 123(4): 237-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14702540802204633. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (2006) Cultural Change. In I. Douglas, R. Huggett and C. Perkins (Ed.), Companion Encyclopedia of Geography: From the Local to the Global. Vol 1 (2nd ed.): 213-225. London: Routledge. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E., Fournier, E., Haigh, M., Muniz, O., Trafford, J. and Vajoczki, S. (2006) Problem-based Learning in Geography: Towards a Critical Assessment of its Purposes, Benefits and Risks. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 30(1): 103-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03098260500499709. (Journal Article)
  • Castree, N., Aspinall, R., Berg, L.D., Bohle, H-G., Hoggart, K., Kitchen, R., Kulke, E., Munton, R., Pawson, E., Powell, J., Sheppard, E. and van Weesep, J. (2006) Research assessment and the production of geographical knowledge. Progress in Human Geography 30(6): 747-782. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132506071518. (Journal Article)
  • DeLyser, D. and Pawson, E. (2005) From personal to public: Communicating qualitative research for public consumption. In I. Iay (Ed.), Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (2nd Edition ed.): 266-274. Melbourne: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Holland, P. (2005) Lowland Canterbury landscapes in the making. New Zealand Geographer 61(2): 167-75. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. and Le Heron, R. (2005) Making contemporary economic landscapes. In J. Rowe (Ed.), Economic Development in New Zealand: 15-29. Aldershot: Ashgate. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2004) The memorial oaks of north Otago: a commemorative landscape. In G. Kearsley and B. Fitzharris (Ed.), Glimpses of a Gaian World: 115-131. Dunedin: University of Otago. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Brooking, T. (Ed.) (2003) Environment and History, 9, 4, 375-483. Special Issue: New Zealand. 375-483. (Edited Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Dovers, S. (2003) Environmental history and the challenges of interdisciplinarity. Environment and History 9(1): 53-75. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. and Brooking, T. (2003) New Zealand environmental histories. Environment and History 9(4): 375-378. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (2003) Whose profiles, for which purposes? Auckland: New Zealand Geogaphical Society 22nd Conference, 6-11 Jul 2003. 10-11. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson, E. (2003) Whose profiles, for which purposes? Auckland: Proceedings of the Twenty Second New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, Jul 2003. 10-11. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson,E. (Ed.) (2002) Environmental Histories of New Zealand. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press. 342. (Edited Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Teather, E.T. (2002) Geographical expeditions: assessing the benefits of a student-driven fieldwork method. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 26(3): 275-89. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. and Brooking, T. (2002) Introduction.. In Pawson, E., Brooking, T. (Ed.), Environmental Histories of New Zealand: 1-16. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2002) On the edge: making urban places. In Pawson, E., Brooking, T. (Ed.), Environmental Histories of New Zealand: 200-213. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2002) The meanings of mountains. In Pawson, E., Brooking, T. (Ed.), Environmental Histories of New Zealand: 136-150. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Tranter, P. and Pawson, E. (2001) Children's access to local environments: a case study of Christchurch, New Zealand. Local Environment (UK) 6(1): 27-48. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. and Egli, H.R. (2001) History and discovery of the European and New Zealand Alps. Mountain Esearch and Development 21(4): 350-58. (Journal Article)
  • Brooking, T. and Pawson, E. (2001) Narratives in New Zealand environmental histories. Geography - A Spatial Odyssey. Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dune: Proceedings of the Third Joint Conferenc of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers., 2002. 64-7. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson, E. (2001) Sustainability and management of the environment. In Andrew Sturman and Rachel Spronken-Smith (Ed.), The physical environment: a New Zealand perspective (Chapter 25 ed.): 455-470. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Holland, P. (2001) The New Zealand environmental experiment. Geography - A Spatial Odyssey.. Department of Geography, University of Otago, Dune: Proceddings of the Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geograhers, 2002. 96-100. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson, E. (2000) Confronting nature. In J. Cookson & G. Dunstall (Ed.), Christchurch 2000: Southern capital: 60-84. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. and Brooking, T. (2000) Landscape change and environmental histories. New Zealand Geographer 56(2): 52-6. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (2000) On the edge: urban environmental histories. Palmerston North: Proceedings of Twentieth New Zealand Geography Conference, (NZGS Conference series No. 20), July 1999.. 55-8.. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson, E. (2000) Remaking places. In Le Heron, R. et al. (Ed.), Explorations in human geography: encountering place: 345-66. Auckland, NZ: Oxford University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (2000) 'Tipped with Alpine glow'? Mountains in the New Zealand imagination. Australian Canadian Studies 18(1 and 2): 73-86. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (2000) Transforming the environment. In Cant, R.G. & Kirkpatrick, R. (Ed.), Rural Canterbury: celebrating its history.: 120-39. Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates & Lincoln, Lincoln University Press. (Chapter in Book)
  • Scott, G. and Pawson, E. (1999) Local development initiatives and unemployment in New Zealand. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 90(2): 184-95. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (1999) Postcolonial New Zealand? In Anderson, K. & Gale, F. (Ed.), Cultural geographies: 25-50. Melbourne/London: Addison Wesley Longman/Pearson. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (1999) Transference down under? Journal of Geography in Higher Education 23(2): 248-51. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (1998) Geographers at work. University of Waikato: Geo.Ed.97 / Kaupapa aro whenua, geographical education Conference. New Zealand Geographical Society Conference Series No. 19. NZGS, '1998'. 27-8.. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson, E. and Swaffield, S. (1998) Landscapes of leisure and tourism. In Perkins, H.C. and Cushman, G. (Ed.), Time Out? Leisure, Recreation and Tourism in New Zealand and Australia: 254-70. Auckland, NZ: Addison Wesley Longman. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (1998) Teaching an integrated first year geography course. University of Waikato: Geo.Ed.97 / Kaupapa aro whenua, geographical education Conference, 1997. New Zealand Geographical Society Conference Series No. 19. NZGS, '1998'. 98. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Pawson, E. (1997) (1997). "Human geography". In Social sciences knowledge base. Wellington, Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.. (Report for External Body)
  • Pawson, E. (1997) A Coal-mining world: the West Coast, 1890s to 1950s, plate 63. In McKinnon, M. (Ed.), New Zealand historical atlas Auckland, NZ: David Bateman/Historical Branch, Dept Internal Affairs. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (1997) Branding strategies and languages of consumption. New Zealand Geographer 53(2): 16-21. (Journal Article)
  • Kirkpatrick, R. and Pawson, E. (1997) City Limits: urban form and planning in Christchurch in the post-war-era, plate 95. In McKinnon, M. (Ed.), New Zealand historical atlas Auckland, NZ: David Bateman. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (1997) Fire, flood and quake: hazards of development between the wars, plate 87. In McKinnon, M. (Ed.), New Zealand historical atlas Auckland, NZ: David Bateman. (Chapter in Book)
  • Conradson, D. and Pawson, E. (1997) Reworking the geography of the long boom: the small town experience of restructuring in Reefton, New Zealand. Environment and Planning A 29: 1381-97. (Journal Article)
  • Pawson, E. (1997) Space transformed: colonial communications, 1850's to 1890s, plate 52. In McKinnon, M. (Ed.), New Zealand historical atlas Auckland, NZ: David Bateman/Historical Branch, Dept. Internal Affairs. (Chapter in Book)
  • Pawson, E. (1997) The New Zealand Historical Atlas. Journal of Historical Geography 23(4): 496-499. (Journal Article)