Janet Hoek

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Janet Hoek
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Hoek in 2007
Alma mater Massey University
Scientific career
FieldsPublic Health
Institutions University of Otago
Thesis
Doctoral students Rachael McLean

Janet Anne Hoek is a New Zealand academic. She was promoted to full professor at Massey University in 2003 and was appointed full professor at the University of Otago. [1]

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Academic career

After a 1996 PhD titled 'Some effects of question wording and question administration on the prediction of voting behaviour' at the Massey University, Hoek moved to the University of Otago, rising to full professor. [1] [2]

Hoek's research focuses on public-interest issues such as smoke-free policy, [3] [4] [5] [6] and is co-director of Aspire 2025, University of Otago Research Centre whose work aims to support the New Zealand Government's goal of becoming a smoke-free nation by 2025. [7]

During Michaelmas term of 2019 Hoek was a Fellow of the Durham University Institute of Advanced Study, where she was affiliated to Stephenson College. [8]

In 2020 Hoek was elected a Fellow of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. [9] One of Hoek's notable doctoral students is Professor Rachael McLean. [10]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 Marketing, Department of. "Professor Janet Hoek". www.otago.ac.nz.
  2. Hoek, Janet (1996). Some effects of question wording and question administration on the prediction of voting behaviour (Doctoral thesis). Massey Research Online, Massey University. hdl:10179/2758.
  3. "Vape giveaways "despicable": public health academic". Radio New Zealand. 20 December 2018.
  4. "Smoking and vaping in cars with children to be banned". Stuff. 9 February 2019.
  5. Edwards, Richard; Hoek, Janet; Waa, Anaru (31 May 2018). "How can we make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025?".
  6. "Tobacco company faces court over HEETS product". Newshub . 18 May 2017. Archived from the original on 30 May 2017 via www.newshub.co.nz.
  7. "ASPIRE2025". ASPIRE2025.
  8. "Professor Janet Hoek". Institute of Advanced Study. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  9. "SNRT: Fellows". Society for Research on Nicotine & Tobacco. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  10. McLean, Rachael Mira (2013). Sodium in New Zealand: intake, consumer perceptions, and implications for chronic disease (PhD thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/4296.