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Our Team

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 ...