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Research Committee
The Research Committee provides advice to Universities New Zealand – Te Pōkai Tara on any issue related to research or research policy in universities. The committee provides a link at national level with other bodies concerned with research, such as Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, the Health Research Council and the Royal Society of New Zealand, which administers the Marsden Fund.
Further functions of the Research Committee are to develop information resources on university research, maintain an overview of university research surveys and requests for statistical information and develop links with research bodies overseas and with other research groupings within New Zealand, such as the Crown Research Institutes and their representative body, Science New Zealand.
The Research Committee is made up of the senior executive from each university with overall responsibility for research policy, either as Deputy Vice-Chancellor or as head of the research office. It is chaired by a Vice-Chancellor, currently ProfessorStuart McCutcheon, Vice-Chancellor, University of Auckland.
Committee Members:
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Professor Stuart McCutcheon(Chair) |
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University of Auckland |
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Professor Jane Harding |
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University of Auckland |
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Professor Richard Bedford |
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Auckland University of Technology |
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Professor Alexander Gillespie |
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University of Waikato |
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Professor Brigid Heywood |
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Massey University |
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Professor Neil Quigley |
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Victoria University of Wellington |
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Professor Steve Weaver |
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University of Canterbury |
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Professor David Simmons |
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Lincoln University |
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Professor Richard Blaikie |
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University of Otago |
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