Organisers
Neil Haigh
Neil has had a long involvement in the provision of professional development opportunities for tertiary teachers and has a particular interest in the application of research/scholarship capabilities in learning and teaching contexts, as well as disciplinary research. 
Previously the Director of the Teaching and Learning Development Unit at Waikato University, Neil now haa a position in the Centre for Educational and Professional Development (CEPD) at AUT University. In his current role, he provides support for staff in relation to:
- their personal development of research capabilities,
- development as postgraduate supervisors,
- achieving a nexus between teaching, learning and research,
- engagement in the scholarship of learning and teaching.
In addition, he contributes to the provision of support for postgraduate research students, teaching development services provided by CEPD, and the review and development of policies associated with teaching and research development.
His current research interests and activities focus on the relationship between academic development and student learning, the status of institutional support for the scholarship of teaching and learning, and strategies for facilitating interdisciplinary and interprofessional encounters.
Lorraine Parker
Lorraine is currently Director of the Centre for Educational & Professional Development (CEPD) at AUT University. CEPD is responsible for co-ordinating the academic and staff development for academic and allied staff throughout the University, and is a key unit within the Office of the Pro Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching).
Prior to taking up this position in 1999, Lorraine held the position of Deputy-Director in the Centre for Professional Development (CPD) at the University of Auckland where she established a staff development service for all staff, with an organisational development focus. In 1996, she attained an MPhil (Hons) in Management Studies and Employment Relations from the University of Auckland.
Her earlier career was spent as a lecturer at ATI/AIT, teaching Communication Skills and Business Studies for 12 years, and included three years as a Head of Department in the Faculty of Business.
Lorraine has been actively involved for over 15 years with the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), and ATEM (Association of Tertiary Education Management), including a term as NZ Branch Chairperson of ATEM. Her research interests are focused on management and leadership development in the higher education sector.
Stanley Frielick
Stanley began his academic career at the University of the Witwatersrand in
Johannesburg where he worked from 1988 to 1996, firstly in African Literature and then in Academic Development. He moved to New Zealand in 1997 and initially worked in professional development at the University of Auckland, and then as Director of Flexible Learning at NorthTec from 2004 - 2007. His current role is Associate Dean (Undergraduate) in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at AUT University.
Stanley has wide-ranging research interests in higher education theory, complexity science and ecological approaches to learning, and the implications of social software and 'e-learning 2.0' for education. He assisted Tony and Kathryn (below) with the establishment of TERNZ in 2002 and is currently chair of the NZ branch of HERDSA.
Tony Harland
Tony graduated from the University of Newcastle (UK) in Zoology in 1987 and then did a Masters degree in marine biology at Newcastle and Plymouth Marine Laboratories. His PhD at the University of Glasgow was in the physiology and ecology of marine invertebrates, in particular the symbiotic sea anemones and tropical corals. After his PhD, he taught at Glasgow before going to the University of Strathclyde where he spent a year training to be a secondary school science teacher.
In 1994 he returned to teach biology at Glasgow's Zoology Department. At this point he began to shift the emphasis of his research to Higher Education and started to work half-time in the Undergraduate Teaching Unit. In 1996 this interest took him to the University of Sheffield where he directed the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education, a professional course for university teachers. His current position is Associate Professor in the Higher Education Development Centre at Otago, where he works in university teaching and learning. He maintains an undergraduate teaching role and has experience in enquiry and problem-based learning in ecology teaching. Tony's research interests include the professional development of university teachers and student learning.
Kathryn Sutherland
Kathryn has a BA(Hons) in English and New Zealand Studies from Waikato University, and a Masters in English from the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. In the early nineties, she had brief stints working in Canada and Malaysia, as well as teaching English, Art, History and Drama at an Auckland secondary school.
While in Canada, completing her Masters, she changed her focus from post-colonial literature to pedagogy, and came back to New Zealand to undertake a PhD in English and Education at Massey University. Her PhD thesis, completed in 1999, called for a reconceptualisation of teaching, scholarship, and the PhD programme in New Zealand university English departments.
This research focus, and her experience in teaching English literature and written communication to undergraduate students at various universities, led to her current employment as a lecturer in the University Teaching Development Centre (UTDC) at Victoria University of Wellington. She works primarily with new academics and her main research interests lie in the professional development of new university teaching staff, the reconceptualisation of the PhD programme in NZ universities, and looking into new ways for framing the work that academic developers do.
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