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Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

Professor of Pacific Studies

Qualifications

• Ph D (Macquarie) 

• MA (VUW) 

• BA (Hons 1) VUW 

• BA (VUW)

• TTC (Teachers Certificate)  

• Sustainable development, Pacific Small Island States

• Gender, youth and development issues

• Family security (domestic violence and Child abuse and neglect issues)

• Education

What I’m Researching

• Youth connectedness,  Pacific youth in New Zealand

• Pacific males and educational outcomes

• Pacific epistemologies, pedagogies and methodologies

• Gender and equity issues Pacific

• Police and domestic violence, child abuse and neglect

Publications- Report

Conferences, Seminars, Presentations

• Conferences, Seminars, Presentations 

• APPCAN,  Perth Nov 09 Plenary Session  - Invited member of  4 member panel Indigenous Responses to Child Abuse and Neglect (CAN) 

• Paper

• APPCAN,  Perth 09    Bringing Police into Domestic Violence / CAN strategies:  Pacific,  Paper presented

• Association of Asian Social Science Research Councils (AASSREC) 18th Biennial General Conference, Bangkok August 2009  Biculturalism, Cultural Identities and Globalisation: Issues for Aotearoa New Zealand (with professor David Thorns, and Associate Professor, Rosemay Du PLessis (University of Canterbury)

• Association of Social Scientists (NZ)  Pacific students and  the Talanoa access grid    Jan 2009  (ASSR website)

• BRCSS Conference (Aug 09) The Pacific Post Graduate Talanoa Network,  Wellington (with Salainaoloa Wilson p/g)  

• BRCSS Conference (Aug 09)  Coordinated and chaired the Pacific Sessions (x2) 

• NZFUW Keynote,  Pacific Women Graduates:  Learning to Say ‘no’ and ‘help’  Auckland Sept

• Pacific Bible College Conference,  Family based strategies for child abuse and neglect, Wellington (09) 

• Samoan Teachers National Refresher Course (09)  Growing Samoan researchers at VUW,  October 09

• Climate change and migration in the South Pacific region: Policy perspectives, Institute of Policy Studies, VUW (9 10 July 2009)  If I plant a tree, will my children be here to see it group.  (Climate Change, Migratoin and the Community’ www. Ips.vuw

• UNESCO    Biculturalism, multiculturalism and globatlisation; Pacific, paper presented at UNESCo, Royal Society, ASSR forum,  Wellington Cultural identifies in a globalizing workd, 17 April

• Wellington City Council Forum (09) Creating Pacific learning communities,  Wellington  

Invited Chair:

• Pacific Island Family Study Workshop,  From Research to Policy(Dec 2009), AUT University

• PIPSA Conference, ( Dec 2009)   Women and Politics Session, Auckland University

Work in the Public Interest

Memberships and affiliations:

• Newly appointed chair:  Pacific HRC 

• Royal Society Social Sciences Committee

• UNESCO Social Sciences Committee

• Lotteries Commission, Community Research Board

• Funding Information Services Board

• Pacifica (Inc) Vice President (Central)

Examination of Masters and PHDs

• Auckland University (1 phd)

• External examiner, Auckland Pacific postgraduate studies, Canterbury Macmillan Brown 

Coordinator of the Pacific post Graduate Talanoa Network (BRCSS) national (2009)  

Community Investment and Development
Local Government
Economic and Social Statistics Unit

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