NZ Australia Centre

NZ Australia Research Centre

People

The Research Team

Professor Philippa Mein Smith
B Com, MA(Hons) UC, PhD (ANU)

Director, NZ Australia Research Centre
History, School of Humanities
Phone: +64 3 364 2462
Internal Phone: 6462
philippa.meinsmith@canterbury.ac.nz

Professor Jeremy Finn
School of Law

Phone: +64 3 364 2780
Internal Phone: 6780
jeremy.finn@canterbury.ac.nz

Professor Adrian Sawyer

Department of Accounting and Information Systems, College of Business & Economics
Phone: +64 3 364 2617
Internal Phone: 6617

adrian.sawyer@canterbury.ac.nz

Dr Jo Diamond
Art History, School of Humanities. Jo completedĀ a BA Hons (1st class) in the UWA and a PhD at ANU with specialisations in Maori culture, particularly that of women, in both Aotearoa and Australia. Her current teaching and research role at UC incorporates toi Maori, art of other 4th world Indigenous cultures including those of Australia, and a multi-disciplinary approach.
jo.diamond@canterbury.ac.nz

Dr Jeremy Moses
Lecturer in International Relations
School of Social and Political Sciences
Main research areas
Critical theories of international relations, humanitarian intervention, cosmopolitanism, and Australian foreign policy
Phone: +64 3 364 2471
Internal Phone: 6471
jeremy.moses@canterbury.ac.nz

Dr Lyndon Fraser

School of Social and Political Sciences
Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext 7102
Internal Phone: 7102
lyndon.fraser@canterbury.ac.nz

Associate Professor Paul Millar, English and Director, Humanities Computing Unit, School of Humanities

Phone: +64 3 364 2313
Internal Phone: 6313
paul.millar@canterbury.ac.nz

Professor Elizabeth Toomey

School of Law
Phone: +64 3 364 2987
Internal Phone: 8793

elizabeth.toomey@canterbury.ac.nz

Chris Eichbaum Associate Professor Chris Eichbaum

Deputy HOS
School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington
Phone: +64 4 4635675

chris.eichbaum@vuw.ac.nz

Research Associates

Emeritus Professor Peter Hempenstall, Ambassador-at-large for trans-Tasman relations, Newcastle, NSW

peter.hempenstall@canterbury.ac.nz

Stuart McMillan

Phone: +64 3 332 2804
s.mcmillan@xtra.co.nz

Postgraduate Students

 

Rosemary Baird, PhD on oral histories of trans-Tasman migration

Lloyd Carpenter, PhD: 150 years of riches: the influence of the Central Otago gold rush on New Zealand culture, literature and society

Wayne Stack, PhD: The NZ Army Officer Corps

Germana Nicklin, PhD: The trans-Tasman border, School of Government, VUW (with Chris Eichbaum). Germana is at Sciences Po in Paris on an EU exchange as part of her PhD studies until the end of May 2012

Bernadette Devonport, PhD: A history of accounting standards in NZ (awarded)

Gary Whitcher, PhD: Some responses to the impact of American culture in New Zealand, 1945-1965 (includes Australian influences) (awarded)