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.
The Antarctic Research Centre (ARC) is part of the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Its mission is to research "Antarctic climate history and processes, and their influence on the global climate system. The current director of the Antarctic Research Centre is Associate Professor Robert McKay.
Joan Muriel Mattingley was a New Zealand clinical chemist.
Diane Seward is a low temperature thermochronologist. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at Victoria University of Wellington and affiliated with GNS Science. Seward's work has predominantly focused on thermochronology applied to basin analysis and tectonic evolution. Her research has also been instrumental in developing dating of volcanic deposit through fission track analysis.
Dianne Sika-Paotonu is a New Zealand immunologist, biomedical scientist and academic in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and Associate Dean (Pacific) at the University of Otago Wellington. She is of Tongan descent and is the first Pasifika biomedical scientist to receive the Cranwell Medal for science communication in 2020 and the 2022 Prime Minister's Science Communicator of the Year prize. In 2024 Sika-Paotonu was awarded the Callaghan Medal by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Thema Simone Bryant, also known as Thema Bryant-Davis, is an American psychologist who is a professor of psychology at the Pepperdine University, where she directs the Culture and Trauma Research Laboratory. Her research considers interpersonal trauma and societal trauma of oppression. She was elected as the 2023 President of the American Psychological Association.
Sarah Catherine Elizabeth Ross is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre, Media and Communication, and Art History at Victoria University of Wellington. Ross is a scholar of Renaissance literature, particularly women's complaint poetry.
Lisa Orloff Clark is a New Zealand mathematician, and as of 2023 is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington and Head of the School of Mathematics and Statistics. She works in the field of algebra and also on inquiry-based learning in mathematics education.
Bing Xue is a New Zealand computer scientist, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in machine learning, artificial intelligence and data visualisation.
Annemarie Goldstein Jutel is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the sociology of medical diagnosis.
Nicola Anne Hessell is a pakēhā New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in British Romantic literature, and the intersection between Romantic literature and indigeneity.
Joanna Claire Mossop is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the law of the sea, including conservation law, and laws outside national jurisdictions.
Meredith Helena Marra is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor of linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in sociolinguistics and workplace discourse.
Jessica Christine Lai is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the interaction of intellectual property rights and indigenous knowledge.
Janet Lynn Fanslow is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in researching the prevention, prevalence and consequences of family violence.
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.
Sally Jane Norman is a New Zealand–French performing arts historian, who is currently the inaugural incumbent of the Denis Adam Chair in Music at Victoria University of Wellington, having served as Director of the New Zealand School of Music from July 2017 until April 2024. Norman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, and the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. Her research on performance technologies builds on historical forms and extends to contemporary practices involving digital tools and techniques.
Alison Kay Morris Matthews is a New Zealand academic education researcher, and is emeritus professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, specialising in community history, education, and women and children's issues.
Victoria Jane Mabin, also van den Broek-Mabin, is a New Zealand management academic, and is a professor emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington. Mabin is a Fellow of the UK Operational Research Society and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization.
Sally J. Morgan is a New Zealand artist and historian, and is a Distinguished Professor and Professor Emeritus at the Massey University. Morgan's research focuses on socially-engaged art practices. She was awarded the Massey University Research Medal in 2016, and her novel Toto Among the Murderers won the 2022 Portico Prize.
