Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop

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.[1]

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

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[3]

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,[5]

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.[4][6] 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.[7][8]

References
  1. "Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop". SAMOAN BIOS. 4 July 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  2. "Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop". 1 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  3. "Professor Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop - AUT". www.aut.ac.nz. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  4. "Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop | The Governor-General of New Zealand". www.gg.govt.nz. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  5. "Professor takes up new post". Stuff. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
  6. "New Year honours list 2008". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2007. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  7. "Queen's Birthday honours list 2015". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. Edmonds, Elesha (2 June 2015). "Professor honoured for services to Pacific". Central Leader. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
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