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Our Team

Academics

Malcolm Campbell

Associate Professor

Human Geography

Fields of Research:

- Health Geography
- Public Health
- mGeoHealth
- Regional Analytics
- Regional Science
- Spatial Data ...

Edward Challies

Senior Researcher

Waterways Centre

Fields of Research:

- Environmental governance
- Water resource management
- Groundwater governance
- Collaborative ...

Frances Charters

Senior Lecturer

Ecological Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Stormwater treatment and blue-green infrastructure
- Water quality characterisation ...

Chris Chen

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Environmental Studies
- Human Geography
- Marketing and Tourism
- Resilience: Commercial: ...

Mesbahuddin Chowdhury

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Buyer-supplier relationship
- Supply Chain Resilience
- Organizational resilience
- Social ...

Lindsey Conrow

Senior Lecturer

Human Geography

Fields of Research:

- Transport, accessibility and wellbeing
- Equity and community resilience
- Crowdsourced data

Bronwyn Hayward

Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata / Associate Dean (Research)

Political Science

Fields of Research:

- Children and youth politics
- Climate change
- Urban governance and planning
- Resilience
- Social ...

Jack Heinemann

Professor

Biological Sciences

Fields of Research:

- Microbial genetics and evolution
- Horizontal gene transfer
- Risk assessment especially of ...

Matt Hobbs

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Research Interests:

Dr. Matt Hobbs uses geospatial and population health methods to inform local and national public health policy to plan healthy places and reduce ...

Matthew Hughes

Senior Lecturer

Humanitarian Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Humanitarian Engineering
- Integrating Indigeneity with Engineering and Science
- Community ...

Dr John Hopkins

Professor

Disaster law

Fields of Research:

- Disaster Law
- Federalism, Devolution and Regional Governance
- New Zealand Public ...

Mehdi Keyvan-Ekbatani

Associate Professor

Transportation Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Urban and Motorway Traffic Flow Modelling and Control
- Traffic state estimation
- Automated ...

Simon Kingham

Professor

Human Geography,Chief Science Advisor, MoT

Fields of Research:

- Health and urban environment
- Sustainable transport
- Geohealth
- Transport emissions ...

Tom Logan

Senior Lecturer

Civil Systems Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Climate Change Adaptation
- Risk Science
- Urban Science
- Infrastructure Systems
- Resilience

Sanna Malinen

Associate Professor

Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Wellbeing (individual, community)
- Resilience (personal, employee, organisational)
- Disaster ...

Dr Diane Mollenkopf

Head of Department - Management, Marketing and Tourism

Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Sustainable Supply Chain Management
- Food Security
- Supply Chain Integration
- Closed Loop ...

Justin Morgenroth

Associate Professor

Forestry

Fields of Research:

- Structure, function, value, and ecosystem services of urban forests
- Effect of development ...

Billy O'Steen

Associate Professor

Bachelor of Youth and Community Leadership (BYCL) Programme Coordinator

Fields of Research:

- Experiential education
- Teacher education
- Professional development
- Service-learning
- Student ...

Lucie Ozanne

Professor

Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Transformative Consumer Research
- Sharing Economy
- Community Resilience
- Corporate social ...

Markus Pahlow

Senior Lecturer Above the Bar

Water Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Engineering Hydrology
- Water Resources Management
- Sustainable Development

Rebecca Peer

Senior Lecturer

Civil Systems Engineering

Fields of Research:

- Sustainability
- Energy systems
- Water systems
- Climate change
- Data science

Girish Prayag

Professor

Fields of Research:

- Consumption experiences in marketing
- Interested in tourism, airline and hospitality ...

Kate Prendergast

Post Doctoral Fellow

The Sustainable Citizenship and Civic Imagination Research Group

Fields of Research:

- Wellbeing
- Sustainable development
- Social research
- Health and lifestyle
- Children and youth

Matthew Scobie

Senior Lecturer

Postgraduate Coordinator (Management, Marketing and Tourism)

Research Interests:

My research interests are broadly around exploring ways to hold organisations, businesses and governments accountable for their social, environmental, ...

Associate Professor Sara Tolbert

Associate Professor

Fields of Research:

- Science education curriculum and pedagogy (primary and secondary)
- Environmental ...

Ekant Veer

Professor

Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship

Fields of Research:

- Social Media
- Transformative Consumer Research
- Earthquake research
- Social Marketing and ...

Tom Wilson

Professor

Disaster Risk and Resilience

Fields of Research:

- Natural Hazard Risk Assessment
- Disaster Risk & Resilience
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Risk ...