The Research Committee provides advice to the NZVCC 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 Professor David Skegg, Vice-Chancellor, Univeristy of Otago.
Committee Members:
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Professor David Skegg (Chair) |
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University of Otago |
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Professor Jane Harding |
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University of Auckland |
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Dr Ellen Forch |
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Auckland University of Technology |
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Professor Doug Sutton |
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University of Waikato |
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Professor Nigel Long |
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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 Ian Town |
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University of Canterbury |
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Dr Chris Kirk |
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Lincoln University |
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Professor Harlene Hayne |
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University of Otago |
In October 2008 the Research Committee in conjunction with the University Commercialisation Offices of New Zealand (UCONZ) published "University research commercialisation: paying dividends for New Zealand".
Enquiries:
Principal Advisor