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New Zealand studies is the academic field of area studies of New Zealand. Māori studies is the academic field of cultural studies of the New Zealand Māori. The main New Zealand universities all have a School of Māori Studies.
On Waitangi Day in 2007, Birkbeck College London opened the first Centre for New Zealand Studies (CNZS) in the United Kingdom. [1]
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Victoria University of Wellington is a public research university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government.
Birkbeck, University of London, is a research university located in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute by its founder Sir George Birkbeck and its supporters Jeremy Bentham, J. C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham, Birkbeck is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom.
The monarchy of New Zealand is the constitutional system of government in which a hereditary monarch is the sovereign and head of state of New Zealand. The current monarch, King Charles III, acceded to the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on 8 September 2022 in the United Kingdom. The King's elder son, William, Prince of Wales, is the heir apparent.
New Zealand Sign Language or NZSL is the main language of the deaf community in New Zealand. It became an official language of New Zealand in April 2006 under the New Zealand Sign Language Act 2006. The purpose of the act was to create rights and obligations in the use of NZSL throughout the legal system and to ensure that the Deaf community had the same access to government information and services as everybody else. According to the 2013 Census, over 20,000 New Zealanders know NZSL.
James Christopher Belich is a New Zealand historian, known for his work on the New Zealand Wars and on New Zealand history more generally. One of his major works on the 19th-century clash between Māori and Pākehā, the revisionist study The New Zealand Wars (1986), was also published in an American edition and adapted into a television series and DVD.
The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection is a freely accessible online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials that are held by the Victoria University of Wellington Library. It was named the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre until October 2012.
Joan Druett is a New Zealand historian and novelist, specialising in maritime history and crime fiction.
Joanna Bourke is a British historian and academic. She is professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.
Lydia Joyce Wevers was a New Zealand literary historian, literary critic, editor, and book reviewer. She was an academic at Victoria University of Wellington for many years, including acting as director of the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies from 2001 to 2017. Her academic research focussed on New Zealand literature and print culture, as well as Australian literature. She wrote three books, Country of Writing: Travel Writing About New Zealand 1809–1900 (2002), On Reading (2004) and Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial World (2010), and edited a number of anthologies.
Bruce Gordon McFadgen is a New Zealand surveyor and archaeologist.
This is a bibliography of selected works on the history of New Zealand.
The timeline of nursing history in Australia and New Zealand stretches from the 19th century to the present.
Ocean Ripeka Mercier is a New Zealand academic specialising in physics and Māori science.
Robert Montgomery McDowall was one of New Zealand's most prominent freshwater ichthyologists.
Awhina Tamarapa is a New Zealand Māori museum curator and writer in the field of museum studies. She has tribal affiliations to Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Ruanui and Ngāti Pikiao.
Joanna Kidman is a Māori sociology academic of Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Raukawa descent and as of 2019 is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington. In 2024 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Geraldine McDonald was a New Zealand academic and teacher. She was a pioneer of research into women's education and early childhood education, and advocated for women and girls throughout her life. After an early teaching career, she completed her doctoral thesis on the development of preschool-aged Māori children, and began working for the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. Throughout her later career she ran and chaired various organisations including the New Zealand Mental Health Foundation and the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, and was influential in government policy on early childhood education.
Richard Stephen Hill, Emeritus Professor, is a New Zealand historian who worked as a public servant before becoming an academic. As a member of the Waitangi Tribunal he played a role in the reconciliation process between the Crown and Māori that led to the Crown’s acceptance of indigenous concepts of history as a basis for political practice, enabling Aotearoa New Zealand to emerge in the late 20th century from its 19th century colonial origins.
Kathryn McKerral Hunter is an Australian–New Zealand academic historian, and is a full professor at the Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the 19th and 20th century history of New Zealand and Australia, with a particular focus on the social history of the First World War, and the history of hunting in New Zealand. From 2017 until 2022 she was the director of the Stout Centre for New Zealand Studies.
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