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Allison Margaret Kirkman is a New Zealand sociology academic with interests in 'death and dying; gender, sexuality, ageing and health; health care work and workers.' In 2014 she was appointed the Vice Provost (Academic and Equity) at Victoria University of Wellington before moving to become Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato. [1] [2] She was made an Emeritus Professor at the University of Waikato in 2022 in recognition of her work to set up a nursing programme at the university. [3]

Kirkman's 1996 PhD thesis was on Ways of Being Religious: Lesbians and Christianity. [4]

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References

  1. "New Vice-Provost (Academic and Equity) appointed". Victoria University of Wellington. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  2. "Allison Kirkman - Arts and Social Sciences: University of Waikato". www.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  3. "Driving forces behind successful nursing programme honoured". www.waikato.ac.nz. 27 September 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  4. Ways of Being Religious: Lesbians and Christianity (Thesis). Victoria University of Wellington. 1996. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  5. Tyler, Heather (24 February 2006). "No sex talk please, we're New Zealanders". NZ Herald. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  6. Kampf, Antje (January 2010). "Sexuality Down Under: Social and Historical Perspectives. Edited by Allison Kirkman and Pat Moloney. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 2005. Pp. 304. $39.954 (paper)". Journal of the History of Sexuality (Review). University of Texas Press. 19 (1).
  7. Jennie Connor. "Sociology of health in New Zealand". Journal of the New Zealand Medical Association. journal.nzma.org.nz. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 7 June 2014.