Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop
Fairbairn-Dunlop in 2015
Alma materMacquarie University
Scientific career
FieldsPacific Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of the South Pacific, Auckland University of Technology, UNDP, UNIFEM and UNESCO
Thesis
Doctoral studentsEsther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm[1]
Karanina Sumeo[2]

Margaret Ellen Fairbairn-Dunlop CNZM is a Samoan-New Zealand academic. She is the first person in New Zealand to hold a chair in Pacific studies.[3]

Education

Fairbairn-Dunlop studied at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. She completed a PhD at Macquarie University in Australia.[4]

Career

Fairbairn-Dunlop lived in Samoa from 1981 to 2005, where she worked for aid organisations based in the Pacific such as UNDP, UNIFEM and UNESCO.[5]

On her return to New Zealand, she was appointed the inaugural director of Va’aomanu Pasifika, the Pacific Studies department at Victoria University of Wellington.[6]

Fairbairn-Dunlop was the founding Professor of Pacific Studies at Auckland University of Technology. She is also chair of the Health Research Council Pacific team and sits on a number of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health committees, the Social Sciences committee of the Royal Society Te Apārangi and the UNESCO Social Sciences Committee.[5]

In 2013 she was appointed president of PACIFICA, an organisation which aims to help Pacific Island women to participate in and contribute to public life in New Zealand.[7]

Recognition

In the 2008 New Year Honours, Fairbairn-Dunlop was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to research on families.[6][8] In the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and the Pacific community.[9][10]

Fairbairn-Dunlop won the Ministry of Education (New Zealand) Pacific Education Award at the SunPix Awards 2022.[11] She said, "“I hope the young people coming through have watched and learned from our generation and seen what they can do and what they should do for our people.”[12]

References

  1. ^ Cowley-Malcolm, Esther Tumama (2013). Perceptions of Samoan Parents from a Small Town in New Zealand on Parenting, Childhood Aggression, and the CD-ROM 'Play Nicely' (Doctoral thesis). Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
  2. ^ Kumeo, Saunoamaali'i Karanina (2016). Land Rights and Empowerment of Urban Women, Fa'afafine and Fakaleitī in Samoa and Tonga (PhD thesis). Tuwhera Open Access. hdl:10292/10482.
  3. ^ "Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop". SAMOAN BIOS. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  4. ^ "Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop". 1 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop - AUT". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  6. ^ a b "Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop | The Governor-General of New Zealand". www.gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  7. ^ "Professor takes up new post". Stuff. 17 April 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  8. ^ "New Year honours list 2008". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  9. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 2015". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  10. ^ Edmonds, Elesha (2 June 2015). "Professor honoured for services to Pacific". Central Leader. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  11. ^ Sarah (20 November 2022). "Pacific Education Award Winner Emeritus Tagaloatele Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop | SunPix Awards 2022". TP+. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  12. ^ Hartson, Gladys (15 October 2022). "A night of celebration at Sunpix Pacific Peoples Awards 2022". TP+. Retrieved 23 November 2022.