Postgraduate Committee

Terms of Reference :

• To ensure that the Faculty complies with University policies and regulations as they apply to graduate and postgraduate programmes.
• To monitor, and promote, graduate and postgraduate studies in the Faculty.
• To ensure graduate and postgraduate studies in the Faculty contribute to Faculty and University strategic objectives.
• To make recommendations on regulation changes.
• To make recommendations for annual awards of graduate and postgraduate scholarships.
• To advise the Dean on academic planning and resource needs for graduate studies.
• To receive reports of working groups set up by the Postgraduate Committee to accomplish specific tasks relating to graduate and postgraduate programmes.
  
  
  

Membership :

• Chair : Associate Dean Postgraduate
  • Associate Professor Mavis Haigh
    
    
• Acting Associate Dean Programmes
  • Dr Helen Dixon
    
    
• Two academic staff members elected by the Faculty for a term of two years
  • Dr Vicki Carpenter
  • Rena Heap
    
    
• One representative from each School
  • Dr Sue Gray, Arts, Languages and Literacies
  • Liz Beddoe, Counselling, Human Services and Social Work
  • Dr Louisa Allen, Critical Studies in Education
  • Sally Birdsall, Science, Mathematics and Technology
  • Dr Ngaire Hoben/Ruth Williams, Teacher Education Practice
  • Joanne Walker, Teaching, Learning and Development
  • Dr Colleen McMurchy, Te Puna Wananga
    
    
• Programme Representatives (Co-opted)
  • Dr Richard Hamilton
  • Dr Eleanor Hawe
  • Gillian Ward
    
    
• One external member and member of University Board of Graduate Studies
  • Dr Noel Dawson
    
    

The Faculty Postgraduate Committee may co-opt members to assist in its deliberations as necessary.