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Massey M The magazine for alumni and friends of Massey University | Issue 34 | 2017 Minister of bling ter of bling Minis and e and everythingverything Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett on women, leadership and juggling multiple portfolios - + Researching Samoan youth gang culture + Cleaning up soil contaminants for future generations - + Maori visual artist’s prolific year www.massey.ac.nz | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 1

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Massey | 2017 5 13 15 20 Cover story People 6 The Westie deputy 18 Meeting Massey’s new vice-chancellor Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett has been Professor Jan Thomas is a high-flyer with equally saddled with a swag of portfolios but is confident lofty ambitions for the quality of the University’s that she can manage the load and defend the research and its workplace culture, and reinforcing Government’s record at the same time. connections with its alumni community. 20 Just call me Mavis Features Distinguished alumnus Mavis Mullins passes the - first-name test in Maori agribusiness circles, and Contents after a year receiving numerous accolades for her 5 Reviving University Challenge work in the sector could soon be better known to Host Tom Conroy had always wanted to appear the general public too. on his favourite quiz show, and quirks of fate saw him lead the charge to bring the show back to New Zealand screens with himself in the hot seat Departments asking the questions. 13 The adventurous disrupter 3 Campus wide Linda Jenkinson has spent almost her entire adult A round-up of news from Massey’s three life building successful businesses in the United campuses and further afield. States. Now she is back home to show budding New Zealand entrepreneurs how to do the same. 25 Excellence Awards Celebrating the achievements of Massey’s alumni 15 It’s all in the genes and staff. Genetic scientist Chris Rodley, who was named - Massey’s top Maori student in 2007, has spent 33 Alumni notes and news the ensuing decade honing his research skills and All about the Massey alumni community. - encouraging more young Maori to study sciences. 24 Press on Massey University Press has wasted no time As a future-focused university, Massey is mindful of both making its mark in the New Zealand publishing environmental and economic sustainability. scene. Less than two years after launching, by the Printing stories about our wonderful alumni is great to see, but with end of the year it will already have guided more rising printing and posting costs we would appreciate your feedback than 30 new works into print. on whether you might consider reading Massey magazine online next year. We are investigating easy online reading (ebook) options and encourage you to consider them. Website: www.massey.ac.nz Please email [email protected] if you would be happy to receive Editor: Kate Drury/Paul Mulrooney next year’s issue online. Many thanks from the Massey alumni team. Contributors: Sidah Russell, Jenna Ward, Paul Mulrooney, Jennifer Little, Ryan Willoughby, Sandra Simpson, James Gardiner, David Wiltshire Designer: Grant Bunyan Proofreading: Foolproof | Massey University | April 2016 | MASSEY | 1

First word Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas writes. Fit for the future L eafing through the opening of Wildbase Hospital at - pages of this year’s the Manawatu campus, a facility funded by the Massey University Massey alumni Foundation, hosting Minister of magazine you will see a theme emerging of alumnus, at the Finance 2017 women on the rise, seminar in Auckland in February achieving at the upper echelons of their chosen vocations. Finance Steven Joyce, a Massey enriched by the free movement of and attending the Defining From wool and agribusiness Excellence Awards in Auckland on academics and students and by sector leader Mavis Mullins to March 23. international collaborations in our serial entrepreneur Linda The annual awards celebrate the research. It has much work to do Jenkinson, Women’s Refuge Chief achievements of our alumni, top in the quest to find solutions to Executive Ang Jury and Deputy teachers and researchers and the pressing global issues. More, it is Prime Minister Paula Bennett – all partner organisations with which important that universities are graduates of Massey University we work. They have become an continue as beacons for human and all are leaders in their fields. important part of the University rights, academic freedom, Their stories of starting out life calendar. Two of the distinguished unfettered intellectual inquiry and with an idea or ambition and alumni I mentioned earlier have freedom of speech. I have a sense transforming it into effective been recipients – Mavis Mullins this of urgency about our collective action can help inspire today’s year and Linda Jenkinson in 2014. task globally. students and most recent You can read more about the Massey has a considerable track graduates with their time at awards night and the illustrious record as a leading international Massey and post-university life. alumni profiled within these pages. university and global citizen, and I am overwhelmed by the I was thrilled to discover that in we need to continue to play this warmth of welcome that I have late 2016 Massey ran its first phone role. The alumni community is a received at all our campuses since appeal to alumni. Many of you will vital part of any university, and I my arrival just three months ago. have received calls from students am looking forward to meeting as Massey is an outstanding in late December asking you to many as I can. With more than university with a proud history, contribute to the refurbishment of 140,000 of you, I acknowledge the and I feel very privileged to have the Refectory building or to challenge that presents. It is an been entrusted with the care of its scholarship. I was delighted to incredible footprint to have around growth and development in the discover that more than 1000 the world – individuals whose next phase of its life. alumni contributed a total in families, friends, workmates and As I said in the first alumni excess of $100,000 to the appeal. teammates may know about newsletter for the year, I look Contributions by alumni to the Massey because of the actions and forward to building on the work of foundation help to ensure achievements of our former my predecessors to make sure excellence at Massey and I am students. that Massey is fit for the future and humbled that so many of you give As I said when I was interviewed that it is ranked, as it should be, as so much to your alma mater. for this publication, you make us one of the best universities in the Like many of you, I have been proud and my commitment to you world. troubled by limits being placed on is to make Massey University the The start of my tenure has been individuals travelling to the United best it can be so that that pride is busy. Highlights are numerous but States and the general trend always reciprocated. - include welcomes (powhiri) on all towards stronger national three campuses, attending the boundaries. The global academy is Professor Jan Thomas 2 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Campus wide Massey welcomes new leaders The Auckland campus welcomed new College of Health Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Mills and Assistant Vice- - Chancellor Maori and Pasifika Dr Charlotte Severne this year - with a powhiri. Professor Mills, whose most recent role was Professor of Clinical Sciences (Nursing) and the nursing discipline leader in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences at RMIT University in Melbourne, started at Massey University mid- January. Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Ted Zorn said Massey was incredibly fortunate to have Professor Mills and Dr Severne join the University. Professor Mills, who will be based in Auckland, said her vision for the college was for it to be the leading place for public health in New Zealand. - Dr Severne is the new Assistant Vice-Chancellor Maori and Pasifika, replacing Dr Selwyn Katene. She will be based - at the Manawatu campus and joined Massey in November last year. - - - - She is of Ngati Tuwharetoa and Ngai Tuhoe and is a - geologist, former chief scientist for oceans and Maori From left: Acting Vice-Chancellor Professor Ted Zorn, Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, former - Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor College of Health Professor Barrie Macdonald, Assistant Vice-Chancellor Maori development at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric - and Pasifika Dr Charlotte Severne, Pro Vice-Chancellor College of Health Professor Jane Mills, Professor Research and, most recently, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Maori Peter Lineham and Head of the School of Nursing Dr Mark Jones. and Communities at Lincoln University. World-renowned professor appointed Finance 2017 The inaugural chair in consumer and sensory science has been It was an event of firsts at Finance 2017 in February. The established at Massey University. annual event is co-hosted by Massey University and the Professor Joanne Hort, from the University of Nottingham, is Auckland Chamber of Commerce and in recent years has a world-renowned expert in sensory and consumer science. Her become the chosen forum for the Minister of Finance to research focuses on using sensory science and instrumental deliver the year’s first economic statement. It was Steven techniques to understand how we perceive flavour. Joyce’s first appearance at the event as well as his first The chair has been established within the Massey Institute of speech in the portfolio, having succeeded Bill English as Food Science and Technology through the Riddet Institute Centre Minister of Finance, after the latter’s elevation to Prime of Research Excellence. Minister following John Key’s resignation in December. Professor Hort will work in partnership with the Fonterra External Research and Development team and leaders of consumer and sensory science to provide strategic leadership for Fonterra LUX set to light up Wellington and Massey in areas of consumer and sensory science research. Professor Hort begins her role in July. UK New Zealander of the Year Former Speaker of the House and Massey alumnus Sir Lockwood Smith isn’t used to sharing the spotlight after ruling the roost in parliament and then becoming New Zealand’s High Commissioner to London. A Massey Foundation supporter and recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award in 2010, Sir Lockwood, who has a Master of Agriculture from Massey, has retained a keen interest in following the rural sector while being based in the United Kingdom. But as his term ends he has joined in celebrations for his wife, For the fifth successive year the Wellington LUX Light Festival Lady Alexandra Smith, being named UK New Zealander of the Year in recognition of her outstanding will illuminate parts of Wellington city as an early winter contribution to presenting a positive image of New Zealand in the UK. celebration of the enchanting power of light. The festival, on Lady Alexandra, who also graduated from Massey, with a Master of Counselling Studies with distinction, May 12-21, is anchored around five distinct precincts featuring is a teacher, counsellor, accomplished pianist, gardener and patron of the arts. installations from a broad range of nationally and internationally She expanded New Zealand’s connections in the UK through building extensive networks spanning recognised artists, designers and architects – including Massey literature and the performing arts, academia, the legal profession, politics, business and the diplomatic University staff and students. Massey is a founding partner world. organisation, major existing partner and artwork sponsor of With her husband, Lady Alexandra plans to return to New Zealand and the farm they share. the festival. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 3

Campus wide World rugby conference in Palmerston North As New Zealand prepares for the British and Irish Lions Dr Farah Palmer, senior lecturer in Massey’s School of tour, Massey University is pulling on its boots for a world Management and the New Zealand Rugby Union’s first female knowledge scrum. board member, says she is looking forward to sharing what The international rugby conference The World in Union New Zealand and Massey have to offer. (New Zealand) will kick off at the New Zealand Rugby “Rugby as a game, a business, an event, a passion and a Museum on June 28, followed by two days of presentations cultural product is a great platform for exploring and discussing and discussions at the Sport & Rugby Institute in Palmerston big issues in sport.” North on June 29 and 30. A variety of packages are available via the The World in The topics to be covered include nationalism, culture, Union 2017 Conference website. social issues, injury and prevention, coaching, sponsorship For further information go to www.massey.ac.nz and click Dr Farah Palmer from Massey’s School of and event management. on events. Management. Wildlife hospital moves New Chancellor - Massey’s Wildbase Hospital has moved into new $9 million premises at the Manawatu campus. Massey’s new Chancellor Michael - - Wildbase, New Zealand’s only dedicated wildlife treatment facility, provides medical, surgical and Ahie, Nga Ruahine, Nga ti Ruanui, rehabilitation care to more than 300 sick and injured native animals each year. It is also a respected has connections with the research and teaching institution. University dating back more Shell New Zealand Chairman Rob Jager officially opened the new building at a ceremony in January than 30 years. attended by Massey’s new Vice-Chancellor Professor Jan Thomas, Veterinary Teaching Hospital staff The Wellington-based and supporters of Wildbase. businessman was appointed Professor Thomas, a veterinary pathologist, says protecting and better understanding New Zealand’s to the University Council by unique native wildlife is an example of the exceptional and distinctive learning experience Massey offers the Minister of Tertiary Education and proof it is an international leader in one of its key speciality areas. in December 2012; he has been Pro Chancellor (deputy chairman) since late 2013 and became Chancellor in December. Mr Ahie is a Massey alumnus, having graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies in marketing with first-class honours. After spending 18 years in corporate life, including in senior roles at Toyota New Zealand, the New Zealand Dairy Board and Wrightson, Mr Ahie decided to change direction. He founded a company, AltusQ New Zealand, dedicated to coaching and mentoring people in organisations. He also chairs the Plant & Food Research board of directors, the Food Safety Assurance Advisory Council, ComplyWith and the Plant Market Access Council. Mr Ahie, Taranaki, says he is excited by the transformational power of education. “Massey is positioned to deliver to students, especially through its distance learning programme, which can reach people in every corner of the country. This - is particularly important for Maori communities.” Lifelong learner and distinguished Massey alumni dies Dennis Oliver, the recipient of Massey University’s in Social Sciences (1996) and a Master of Business the debt-ridden Hastings prestigious Distinguished Alumni Service Award in Studies (2001). YMCA into a profitable 2012, died in March. Mr Oliver spoke about the importance of education enterprise with a staff of 35 Mr Oliver embarked on a 30-plus-year academic in an interview in 2010 for Massey magazine. “Education and an annual turnover of journey with Massey in the 1980s that saw him gain changes the way you view the world,” he said. “Each more than $1 million. a raft of qualifications in the ensuing years. While course of study gives you a new ‘thinking tool’ that He took action to help the living in Fiji and working for the Young Men’s Christian helps you grow personally and professionally.” unemployed and to prevent Association (YMCA), he studied by distance before As a valued member of the University’s Hawke’s suicide, built community returning to New Zealand to steadily complete two Bay alumni network, Mr Oliver encouraged active development programmes in Pacific nations and wrote papers a year. membership by facilitating regular meetings. four books: Rural Youth, My Friends the Shoeshine His diligence saw him graduate with a Diploma in He enjoyed a 42-year career with the YMCA and Boys, Trickling Up, and Training the Unemployed. Training and Development (1984), a Postgraduate was made a life member of the organisation in 2007. He was bestowed the paramount matia chief title Diploma in Business and Administration (1987), a He built branches from scratch in Fiji and Samoa, Tagaloafaatautele as a reward for his service to the Diploma in Social Sciences (1991), a Master of Philosophy reinvented the YMCA in New Plymouth and rebuilt people of Foaluga Salega Savaii. 4 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Featureeature F A starter for 10 Massey graduate Tom Conroy dreamed of going on University Challenge. He ended up buying a TV production company and compering the show. By Paul Mulrooney ere is another starter for 10: Its return to New Zealand screens in 2014 Which quiz master left school was the fulfilment of an ambition Mr Conroy with School Certificate but went had held when he first enrolled as a distance Hon to front a TV show for some learning adult student with Massey University of the most academically minded university in 1989. students? Mr Conroy had left school to join the Post The answer is University Challenge compere Office as a telecommunications technician. Tom Conroy, but as he points out, the He then secured a role with Mobil. The programme isn’t only aimed at academics, company was happy for him to pursue a and the cast of quiz show characters who commercial degree, a Bachelor of Business represent New Zealand’s eight universities Studies, and supplement it with arts papers match their ferocious intelligence with a – reimbursing his study costs when he passed joyful irreverence that is one of the show’s each paper. hallmarks. “Half the real reason I enrolled to study Since being revived by Mr Conroy, who was to go for University Challenge, only to owns an Invercargill-based TV production find the series cancelled shortly after signing company, the show has warmed its way back up,” he laughs. into the hearts of a new generation of students, “From a degree point of view, the many watched on by parents who were correspondence degree I did was extremely Tom Conroy says the combination of interesting, accessible questions and a relaxed style is a winning contestants in the show’s 1980s’ heyday. advanced in terms of my being able to do formula. Mr Conroy believes its combination of it from afar and great support from the interesting but accessible questions, broad University meant never having to set foot On arrival to film at Avalon TV studios representation of students across New on campus.” they have a range of activities including a Zealand and appeal to senior students, and But the urge to scratch the University team-building “breaking the ice” exercise, the fact that there are few local quiz shows, Challenge itch never left him, and after and a rehearsal evening where they get to has proven a winning formula. moving into television and starting his own have a practice game too. “It’s deliberately designed so that people production company, Mr Conroy suddenly Mr Conroy has also previously met the can play along and have a bit of fun with it,” had the opportunity to make his quiz show teams on two separate occasions on the he says. dream a question-packed reality. different campuses before they come in to Contestants are willing participants in “We like the social contribution of the the studio. the show’s laid-back approach too. From programme. I’ve had one or two people “That means when we get to the studio unusual choices for team mascot, to some come to me and say they went to a specific there’s no barrier there and there’s a rapport eclectic dress sense, greetings also made in university because of [the university’s] without being too familiar,” he says. “ I think te reo and sign language and a laugh never success on the show. that’s worked well because they hit the far away, the show bubbles with an un- “A few months ago a woman stopped me ground running rather than go through the disguised warmth. in the street in Wellington and said her son rabbit in the headlights thing, which is It’s jazzed up the theme music too, after dropped out of university, saw the show, got almost what you’ve got when you’re sitting the instantly recognisable tune became inspired and went back to university, and under the blaze of the studio lights. unavailable due to copyright reasons, with thanked me for it. I thought that was a great “They [the students] embrace not just the new intro befitting its 21-st century story that it’s more than just a quiz show.” playing but the whole TV experience. They’re revamp. He calls it the University Challenge family, away for a week and you learn how television’s “It’s for this generation where everything and a lot of work goes in to making sure that made, there’s a lot of preparation and I think is more relaxed, but we still use the formality contestants and crew aren’t strangers to they enjoy being part of that whole process of the surnames to keep the format genuine,” each other by the time “quiet on the set” is as well as never losing that competitive Mr Conroy says. called. spirit.” | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 5 | 5 | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

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The Westie deputy Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett has embraced her elevation in the Government with typical gusto. She tells Paul Mulrooney that her time studying at Massey University has played its part too. t is wheels down plus 30, that is, it is half an hour since “Absolutely,” Ms Bennett says with the fiery enthusiasm that Bill English landed back in New Zealand from Australia has become a trademark during her nearly nine years in and his deputy, Paula Bennett, can stand down from government. Ibeing Acting Prime Minister. “I love what I do, feel very privileged and capable and know Although she still has plenty to get on with herself, heading Bill feels the same.” no fewer than five portfolios as well as being, of course, Deputy The high-powered double act is a world away from where Prime Minister. Bennett was when the last National Government came to office Since her elevation to the job in December, Ms Bennett, in the early 1990s. has become the bling to Bill English’s self-described “boring” Back then Ms Bennett was a solo mum, now referred to by as they look to present a fresh face to New Zealand ahead of the bureaucracy as a sole parent, who’d turned her life around the September 23 election. by studying for a Bachelor of Social Work at Massey University. When he stepped down, making way for the new leadership But it is the fact that she was able to access welfare benefits, team, John Key said he had “emptied the tank” in terms of including a Training Incentive Allowance to study at tertiary his dedication to the job. So do the new Prime Minister and level, and then as Minister of Social Development change the his deputy have fuel in the tank for a fourth term? criteria, making it harder to access, that riles many. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 7 | 7 | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

“I would hate to think that the removal Her own experience of being selected Climate Change to Police, State Services, of the Training Incentive Allowance for as one of 20 global leaders as an Eisenhower Tourism and Minister for Women, but she tertiary study prevented any women going Fellow in 2010 offered an external insight is adamant it is a team effort with support into tertiary study,” she says. too. across all roles. “But what I would say though is that the “It was really interesting; you get time “It’s definitely a team that’s working numbers don’t show that. We actually have away from New Zealand to think through really hard. You get to a level of seniority a high number of sole parents going into the big policy issues and challenges of the where you get to pick and choose a bit, and study. The reason [behind the changes] was country and look at different ways of dealing I’m loving the mix of portfolios I’ve got at that it simply wasn’t the same as it had been with them.” the moment and the responsibilities that 10 or 15 years earlier as far as the assistance Being different is a characteristic that come with being Deputy Prime Minister.” available for those going into study. Ms Bennett, 48, has embraced since entering This includes helping to lead the She says that there has been an “evening politics in 2005. Way out in her native West Government’s charge from the front benches, up” process in that there is now more Auckland, the National Party’s traditional something she is no stranger to. A verbal assistance with childcare and student loan blue hue is spotted with a distinctive leopard volley in 2012 at Jacinda Ardern during a schemes and an increased ability for sole skin look too – and her electorate car is combative parliamentary debate to “zip it parents to take the Accommodation adorned in a similar way. sweetie” earned her that year’s Quote of Supplement and get Student Allowances. Entering her seventh-floor Beehive office, the Year Award – a competition initiated She cites Ministry of Social Development her exuberant approach to life is epitomised by Massey. statistics showing that while 1583 sole by a nameplate that isn’t – it simply but With Ms Ardern, the newly anointed students received Student Allowances in mischievously states “Life is short - buy Labour Party number two, the duelling 2008, this figure climbed to 4843 in 2016. the shoes”. deputies have already renewed battle ahead “So when I looked at the system many Her time studying at Massey’s Auckland of likely further encounters in 2017. years ago and made those changes, the campus, where she was student president Ms Bennett is never one to give ground situation certainly wasn’t the same as when in 1996, continues to reap its own rewards. lightly, but when questioned, concedes that I was there [as a student] and looked far “I’ve used my degree a lot. I had a degree the emergence of herself and Ardern as more equal and had more opportunities in social policy and as Minister of Social loyal lieutenants, and the profiles of Green - for sole parents to go into study without Development, as you can imagine, what I and Maori Party co-leaders Metiria Turei that Training Incentive Allowance.” learned in that time from a practical and Marama Fox, could help to incentivise Ms Bennett has been equally forthright perspective, I used.” she says. more women to seek roles at senior executive with her views on equal pay, stating it as I’ve been a little surprised at how much levels. one of her top priorities as Minister for I’ve used my time at Massey in just She points out that at the beginning of Women. understanding how the process works, how the century Prime Minister Helen Clark, “It’s impressive when you see that 56 one gets to the conclusion of designing Governor-General Dame Silvia Cartwright per cent of graduates are women. We were policy, what that looks like, how it goes, and Chief Justice Dame Sian Elias were all told a couple of decades ago that we weren’t how you get different voices in it. I must women in senior leadership roles, “but it getting as paid as well as men because we say of my studies that I wouldn’t have shouldn’t be a point of time, it shouldn’t weren’t as well educated and not going known that had I not been studying there be exceptional, it should be the norm. into the right types of job and seeking at that time, and they’ve certainly helped “If it [women in senior political roles] promotion, and women have gone out and me in policy development.” sends the message out to some people then really addressed those three things, yet Ms Bennett is getting plenty of opportunities that’s great, but I still feel we’ve got a wee we still see a gender pay gap.” to use it, heading portfolios ranging from way to go.” 8 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Feature Moving gang youth from street to village - Gisa Dr Moses Faleolo says moving youth back to Samoa can be detrimental to everyone, writes Jenna Ward. “It doesn’t work. Perhaps for some people eh, but not me. Somehow I still came back the same, no changes [laughs]. I was sent there because I was getting into trouble a lot over here, but somehow - being sent to Samoa got me into more trouble; just a different country, different bloody idiots” – youth gang member Gisa Dr Moses Faleolo says moving gang youth back to Samoa can be detrimental to everyone. - new study of Samoan youth and activities, and re-connect with more wayward behaviour. “It works by placing - gangs in South Auckland has traditional Samoan values, culture and the onus of responsibility on key village - found that sending troubled language, it often doesn’t happen. Instead, institutions to help rehabilitate Samoan A youth back to their homeland they use what they learned in their gangs youth sent back from New Zealand. - can be detrimental to their wellbeing, and to adapt and adjust to authoritarian Samoan “For example, as soon as a young man that of the villages they are sent to. village life,” Gisa Dr Faleolo says. arrives, he is assigned a taule‘ale‘a [person Gisa Dr Moses Faleolo from the Massey Gisa Dr Faleolo says all of the boys were responsible for tasks and duties to contribute University School of Social Work spent bullied when they first arrived at school in to the wellbeing of the village] as a buddy. - more than a year listening to the life stories Samoa, and the relationships they had with The youth will not stay with his extended of five young men who had been sent back teachers and fellow students were often family, but may visit or spend a night with - to live with extended family in Samoa in a hostile. them. The taule‘ale‘a passes on what he bid to separate them from gang life in New “In the end, the boys’ strategies for coping has been taught, and activates the process - Zealand. with bullying in Samoan schools were led of correcting and reforming,” Gisa Dr Faleolo His study, From the Street to the Village: by the adage: ‘if you can’t beat them, join says. The Transfer of NZ Youth Gang Culture to them’.” “The young man learns things like the - - Samoa reveals insights into Samoan youth Gisa Dr Faleolo says a failure to act could aganu‘u [customs and beliefs], who he is, - gang members living in South Auckland, be detrimental to Samoa’s villages, com- who his family members are, his ancestral aged between 16 and 24. Over time he won munity development and sectors such as lineage, and the importance of respect, their trust and they opened up to him about health, education, law and order, social obedience, humility and love,” he says. their lives and the paths that had led them development, religion, economy and cultural Gisa Dr Faleolo says the model offers to violence and crime. identity. many advantages on an individual level, Gisa Dr Faleolo says that despite families’ “If the growth of gang culture isn’t and also on a village level. “It can build - best intentions, moving gang members back addressed, the wellbeing of Samoan society strong character, improve relationships - to Samoa often fell short of expectations. could be at stake, as a new generation of and enhance attitudinal traits like patience, - “Rather than depend on extended families Samoan youth find the attractions of gang forgiveness and resilience. It also minimises - in Samoa to carry out the ‘transformations’, membership greater than those of being the strain on families, because they have - a more formal, multifaceted policy approach proud Samoans,” Gisa Dr Faleolo says. the support of the village.” is needed,” he says. He is calling for a strategy to be imp- “While the parents hope their extended lemented to ensure that extended family Editor’s note: Gisa is a paramount high chief families back home can persuade their members, villages and social services are title bestowed on Dr Moses Faleolo, by the - children to relinquish gang values, culture equipped with the means to manage village of Falelima in Savai’i, Samoa. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 9

Feature Afghanistan mission to refugee education Eight years after a life-changing army mission to Afghanistan, James Lowry launched a charitable trust to help refugee children coming to New Zealand get ahead with their education. He talks to Jennifer Little. he Palmerston North schoolteacher is well on the way “Every town we went to, every village, we were surrounded to signing 1000 people to donate just $1 a week to the by kids and they were asking for one thing – ‘pen bakshish’, For Better Initiative to develop new programmes and which is ‘can I please have a pen?’. That, and water. And it’s Tresources for refugee children. always stuck in my head,” he says. “They wanted pens to learn Just a few months after the December 2016 launch, the trust is or to draw, to have fun. It was their thirst for knowledge that tracking at 15 per cent of its 2019 target. The trust has also funded gave me an inkling that I should be a teacher.” its first English and Foundation Pathways Bursary Award to Back in New Zealand he completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring Palmerston North-based refugee Noorullah Habibi, to complete a in politics and a Bachelor of Business Studies majoring in finance - foundation course in preparation for entering medical school at at Massey’s Manawatu campus – then spent a year working in the University of Otago. corporate banking in Auckland Mr Lowry was just 19 when before the calling to teach lured he was deployed to Afghanistan’s “They wanted pens to learn or to him back to do a Graduate Bamiyan province with the New draw, to have fun. It was their thirst Diploma of Teaching (Primary). Zealand Army. His lingering for knowledge that gave me an His teaching placement led memory of the local children inkling that I should be a teacher.” to a job, and the presence of pleading for pens for their refugee pupils in class got him schoolwork stayed with him. – James Lowry thinking. He did some reading Eight years on, and with several on the topic of refugee learning university qualifications under his belt, he is making his vision a and realised that there were some gaps that could be addressed. reality through the trust, which aims to “dismantle barriers to “The journey that refugee children go through to get to a education”. settlement country is quite a long, drawn-out process. Throughout The Massey University teaching graduate says that having that process, their lives are disjointed and gaps can appear in children with refugee backgrounds in his first year of teaching at their learning,” Mr Lowry says. “They are pulled out of school Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School rekindled his at age six, for example, then get reintegrated into an education memories of children in Afghanistan. system in a new country at age nine, 10 or 11.” As a rifleman with 2nd First Battalion in Bravo Company, he The trust is fundraising and turning to crowd sourcing for its spent six months of 2009 involved in aid projects delivering Barrier Breaker School Fund to run a pilot programme in one resources to schools, in dam and hydro power reconstruction, and school this year, selected from submissions from schools around in reconnaissance for road infrastructure development and New Zealand with pupils from refugee backgrounds. engineering projects. He was not caught up in military conflict and To become a donor or for more information, go to: found the locals were friendly and hospitable. It was the children www.forbetter.org.nz who made the biggest impression. 10 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Sciences Turning his life and the world around Professor Ravi Naidu faced severe hardship growing up in Fiji, but he managed to fulfil a dream of his parents to educate himself. He now leads a global centre for environment and human health, writes Ryan Willoughby. aised in a poor farming family in Fiji, Professor Ravi Naidu never dreamed he would one Rday lead a global centre that safeguards environmental and human health. Professor Naidu’s parents died when he was just 20 years old, making him responsible for his brothers and sisters. His parents had dissuaded Professor Naidu from following in their footsteps; they wanted him to educate himself and become a teacher. Instability and unrest in his homeland took Professor Naidu to New Zealand to | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 11

study, and he received his doctorate in contaminants and working with a number tackle the problem collaboratively. We environmental science from Massey of government and non-government need to build our capacity to deal with University in 1985 and earned a Doctor organisations to address the growing these problems on a global scale as the of Science degree at Massey last year, problem through his work as founding problem will only intensify.” which recognises substantial original director of the Global Centre for However, his life has not been without contributions to the body of knowledge Environmental Remediation at the University hardship. Professor Naidu’s thesis was in a field. dedicated to his son, Dr This work has seen him Roneal Naidu, who died in pen more than 500 papers, “We must develop cost-effective, 2009. patent seven technologies manageable techniques to deal with “Roneal was a gifted and and produce dozens of contaminants so that future caring surgeon, revered by books on contaminant generations do not pay the price.” his colleagues, loved by his dynamics in soil and patients and at the height groundwater and the risks – Professor Ravi Naidu of his powers when, they pose, and the adoption overnight, he unexpectedly of risk-based approaches to managing of Newcastle. He is also the Managing departed this life. His presence is still felt contaminated sites. Director and Chief Executive of the by myself and his dear mother. He was the Particularly groundbreaking is his work Cooperative Research Centre for love of our lives and we will miss his to shift the clean-up of soil contamination Contamination Assessment and Remed- presence and dear voice each remaining from “dig and dump”, where contaminated iation of the Environment. moment of our days. soil is dug up and disposed off-site, to in “There needs to be a shift to aiding “[The] thought of him provides the situ remediation, where contaminated developing nations by training local scientists, living inspiration and the light which soil is treated on-site. and not simply sending foreign scientists drives me more strongly than ever to He warns that there are an estimated in for short periods of time. We need more pursue the science that will bring about five million potential sites worldwide, researchers, more organisations and more a safer, healthier and more sustainable chiefly in urban areas, with the vast industries to work together in order to future for humanity.” majority of these sites un-remediated, [untreated] and over half, contaminated with hydrocarbons that release toxic volatiles that pose significant risk to people. “Treating these sites is an exceptionally challenging and slow-paced task, due to the complex nature of contaminants, the complex and diverse nature of soils, and the ease with which the subsurface environment takes up toxic substances. As our population grows, the amount of pollution and contamination also grows. If we’re not able to come up with cost- effective, manageable techniques to solve the problem, it will be our children and grandchildren who pay the price.” Recently he has been focused on improving policy and regulation around Professor Ravi Naidu’s leadership in the field of environmental contamination has had a major influence on national approaches to contaminated site clean-up. 12 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Profile Linda Jenkinson has shared her business expertise with communities in Senegal, West Africa, and co-founded WOW for Africa, a new social model investment focused on building women-led businesses in the region. Making a difference as a disrupter Serial entrepreneur Linda Jenkinson has made a career out of reinventing business practices. Now she is ready to show New Zealand business people the secrets of her success. She talks to Paul Mulrooney. inda Jenkinson sees herself as a disrupter and an And she has been recognised for it too. adventurer, and both adjectives fit the self-described In 2014 she was a recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award serial entrepreneur well. from Massey University, from where in the early 1980s she L For more than 25 years the Palmerston North-raised graduated with a Bachelor of Business Studies, and last year woman has had a personal quest to upset the apple cart in received a World Class New Zealand award, joining other terms of business processes and blazed an adventurous trail leading business, political and cultural identities. based in the United States while doing it. In her acceptance speech, Ms Jenkinson said she had “taken | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 13

Feature her Kiwiness to the world stage to make a difference and be a From Massey she embarked upon an MBA at Wharton disrupter”. That strategy has certainly paid dividends for the Business School at the University of Pennsylvania breaking entrepreneur, who has built businesses worth $NZ1 billion her father’s traditionally minded business heart in the process. and in the process become the first New Zealand woman to He thought the Ivy League environment of Yale University list a company publicly on the Nasdaq stock exchange. was more prestigious. Two business models and companies are at the core of her But to get to Wharton, Ms Jenkinson had to first raise $115,000, success: Dispatch Management Services – a $320 million same- achieved through small scholarships, taking any business jobs day delivery firm operating in 80 cities; and concierge business she could find and working her contacts. Les Concierges which became the world’s leading corporate “I basically number-eight wired it, I decided I was going to do loyalty concierge programme. Late last year she sold the latter it and figured it out as I went.” business to French hotel group Wharton appealed for various Accor for $215 million and relocated reasons aside from its reputation for from San Francisco to Wellington. an open, expansive, creative and In the case of the courier company, collaborative learning culture. it was based on an idea of instead “I got into six top schools. Back of having to organisationally then Wharton was the only one that remember what all the couriers had 30 per cent global students, and were doing, allowing them, via I really wanted to be a global citizen; innovative customised dispatch that was very important, all the others software, to determine when goods were very US centric.” would be delivered within certain It was the gateway to doing business timeframes. Entrepreneur Linda Jenkinson, who recently relocated to Wellington on a global scale, from trading options after years building businesses in the San Francisco area. “If you look at things I’ve done on Wall Street with Merrill Lynch, it’s coming up with some concept, “I basically number-eight to helping open the Leningrad (now some different view of how to solve St Petersburg) stock exchange and a problem utilising technology and wired it, I decided I was training Russians in finance market different business systems and going to do it and figured it management, to working with Nikko reinventing how things are done. I out as I went.” Securities in Tokyo. disrupt through reinvention,” she Being globally minded is a says. – Linda Jenkinson philosophy that Ms Jenkinson has “So, to me that is what disruption taken as far as Senegal, where she does. It creates a better customer experience and my ethos is, co-founded WOW for Africa, a new social model investment fund how do you actually create a win-win and maybe redistribute focused on building women-led businesses in West Africa. It was some of the profit stream to the employees and to the local acknowledged in 2008 at the Clinton Global Initiative as the most entrepreneurs, so it’s about disrupting not just from a business successful small/medium enterprise investment model in Africa. perspective but from an ownership model too.” It’s significant that Ms Jenkinson has made her name in such One thing to be said about Ms Jenkinson is that she has far-flung places. She cites Victorian-era explorer Henry Stanley, owned her career. whose search for Dr David Livingstone in central Africa entered From the moment she decided, after hearing visiting Massey folklore, as an inspiration. lecturers speak at Palmerston North Girls’ High School, that “Everyone thinks they’re crazy! They’re doing something that she would go to university herself, there was no turning back. people have never done before; it’s physical, it’s mental, it’s going “I remember ringing my Dad and telling him that I’d decided to where the barriers are and bursting through the other side. I was going to university to do computer science, because that That’s where I really draw my inspiration from, great adventurers, was the future; accounting and finance because I wanted to as I see myself as an adventurer.” own the money, and I wanted to be master of my own destiny, Her next endeavour is very much Kiwi in size – a book about and that was why I went to Massey University.” building successful businesses. She will then workshop ideas and The example of her father, who grew small business enterprises, themes within it with New Zealand companies. inspired Ms Jenkinson to try her hand at the business-building “My book is a set of formulas for New Zealand business people game. about how to build businesses specifically into the American She is equally pleased that her son (she and her husband market and ultimately how to build your own formula.” Nick also have a daughter) is following in her father’s footsteps If Ms Jenkinson and her career path are any guide, that formula by taking up judo too. has every chance of being a winning one. 14 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Distance learning - Top Maori student back from Switzerland by Ryan Willoughby. hen we last caught up two children: three-year-old Sienna and “However, I still have a drive to be at the with Chris Rodley three-month-old Max. top of my field and I work hard to achieve - (Ngati Koata) he was “My wife and I wanted to move back to this and become a valued employee.” W working in Geneva as a New Zealand to buy a house and start raising He is currently seconded to a manage- gene scientist and about to marry his a family. Unfortunately, with Auckland’s ment position at the Ministry for Primary university sweetheart. housing prices, I needed to get a job that Industries (MPI), working with a team to It was a world away from his life as a was a bit more permanent than a postdoctoral verify that animal products are fit for export. young dropout from Long Bay College and fellowship. The most important thing in my His previous role involved working with further justification for being named life now, and looking into the future, is my laboratories in New Zealand. - Massey’s top Maori student in 2007. family. I strive for a work-life balance, “A lot of this work is quite technical, His fiancée is now his wife and he has which allows me to be there for my kids. ascertaining whether certain genetic | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 15

Science modifications fall within specific approvals “During my PhD I used to volunteer at about asking questions, wanting to know that the laboratory may hold. I still use a high school after hours to assist students answers, being inquisitive, and just generally the skills I learnt during my PhD and with their science questions and homework. having a thirst for knowledge. I believe this postdoctoral studies on a daily basis in Some of the stories from those students mind-set has to start at home; rather than my current position evaluating whether about their home lives broke my heart, so providing the answer to a question, help the laboratories are operating within approvals anything I can do to encourage them into young person to process the problem and to genetically modify organisms. fruitful careers in anything, I think is brainstorm possible answers, then narrow “I really enjoy being out it down to the actual answer.” and about interacting with “I think we, as a country, are MPI’s external stakeholders “I think we, as a country, are heading in the right direction to - within the containment heading in the right direction to bring Maori science statistics in - - community. The breadth of bring Maori science statistics in line with those of non-Maori by - the work being done in New line with non- Maori by providing providing programmes such as - Zealand never ceases to amaze - Puhoro.” me; we have some amazingly programmes such as Puhoro.” Dr Rodley is not done with smart people out there.” – Chris Rodley education himself. He came back A shining example of what to Massey last year to start a can be achieved by young Ma - Postgraduate Diploma in Business ori in the sciences, Mr Rodley has used worth the effort. With our current school- by distance learning. this experience to inspire high school ing, tertiary education and student loan “I wish that during my undergraduate students through Massey University’s framework everyone has an opportunity degree I’d picked up business papers, or - Puhoro STEM (Science, Technology, to make a difference in their own life and similar, as elective papers. These skills Engineering, Mathematics) Academy in their future children’s lives. It might take are so important out in the workforce, Palmerston North. years and years of part-time study, but the and having an understanding of how “I have always tried to be active in rewards at the end are worth that effort. businesses and management operate gives encouraging young people, especially “Science is one of those areas where you a unique perspective and makes you - Maori, into tertiary study. interest in the subject is important. It is a more rounded employee.” 16 | 16 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey UniversityMASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Feature Taking refuge – changing New Zealand’s culture of violent relationships Dr Ang Jury spearheads New Zealand efforts to curb domestic violence rates, and it all started with her studies in social work at Massey University. She talks to Jennifer Little. omen’s Refuge’s chief standing and awareness of the diverse ways Instead, she got As and A pluses. When executive Dr Ang Jury that Women’s Refuge is addressing the her social work lecturers suggested that spoke to Massey Uni- deep-seated culture of violence against students get some real life experience, she Wversity in the same week women. took a position as a Women’s Refuge that Wellington College was in the headlines And she has found wide support in a volunteer then switched from social work over several students who’d bragged on number of large corporates for initiatives after her first year to study sociology. Facebook about having sex with unconscious such as paid leave for women affected by “Sociology explains so much about how or drunk teenage girls. A protest in Wellington family violence, though there is still a the world works, and how people work,” by people outraged at the incident included challenge in getting board-level approval she says. “It teaches you to think critically several young guys from the college who that such a move won’t impact profit margins. – you don’t just take things for granted. wanted to dissociate themselves from such In partnership with MediaWorks New You can identify agendas and pull things behaviour. Zealand, Women’s Refuge is running its apart – it’s a hugely valuable way of That was heartening for Dr Jury, who has Kids in the Middle campaign because, “We thinking, particularly for government read, written, researched and worked in the needed to get the word out that we work policy work.” domestic violence field for nearly 20 years. with kids a lot of the time – it’s a big part of So, does she have any answers on what She gained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) our work”. more can be done to remedy the intractable in 1998, was a Massey Scholar that year and The long game is ending the culture of problem of abuse? graduated in 2009 with a sociology PhD men beating up women, which is why the “We need to make an active choice to thesis titled Shame on Who? Experiential focus is on children. Dr Jury would like to be nicer to each other. Women’s Refuge and theoretical accounts of the constitution see more education in all New Zealand has a very clear and simple analysis of of women’s shame within abusive intimate schools, starting young. how abuse happens. It happens because relationships. So how did she come to be immersed in one party in the relationship chooses to She has volunteered and worked in all what must be among the most harrowing abuse the other person. areas of Women’s Refuge, including the of sectors to work in? “This stuff happens because we live in frontline rescue missions of women from It was, she admits, accidental. Having a society that fundamentally undervalues life-threatening domestic violence situations. quit high school in the Taranaki town of women,” she says, noting the gender pay Two years into her role as head of the Waitara at the end of the fourth form – she gap as just one symptom that has not national collective of 38 independent women’s was bright at school but had issues with shifted since she was a budding academic. refuges dispersed across New Zealand Dr drugs and alcohol – she headed to university And although it is disappointing that Jury is bringing a new focus to an organisation as a late starter when a friend challenged so many key feminist causes have either that, while lifesaving and life-changing for her. She had left a husband and middle-class not improved or deteriorated, she is buoyed the women it helps, suffers from a mythical life in Tauranga, with low-skilled jobs in a by a new generation of young feminists misconception that it is a “bit of a man-hating, bakery, kiwifruit packing and fish farming who are speaking out on everything from feminist scary organisation”, she says. her only work experience. the rape culture to gender pay and equity. She wants to increase not only funding Social work sounded like a job. She would Issues she thought might have been sorted sources for more education and residential stick at it if she could get B grades in her by now, if only more people would study programmes but also the public’s under- first semester. sociology. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 17

FeatureFeature A chat with the new high-flying vice-chancellor by Sidah Russell. ince arriving in New Zealand at in Australia to come to Massey and to come for championing diversity. At a farewell the start of this year, Massey to New Zealand,” she says. “I believe New get-together of Australian vice-chancellors University’s new Vice-Chancellor Zealand is leading the way in the way it before her move to New Zealand, she says, SProfessor Jan Thomas has does business and the way it projects itself she was pleased to be praised as someone immersed herself in the culture of her new as a global citizen – and I want to be part who set the bar for ethical conduct and workplace and new country. of that. created a high-performing culture by valuing The Australian veterinary scientist, who “I specifically came to Massey because people. came to Massey from the University of I think Massey is doing much of the heavy She plans to bring those qualities to her Southern Queensland where she was lifting to support the New Zealand economy leadership of Massey and is focused on Vice-Chancellor and President, has already and its society.” making the University the very best it can held her first kiwi (at the opening of Professor Thomas says she has long be. “We want to be world class in research, Massey’s new Wildbase facility), started admired her new institution from afar and we want to have a student experience that’s - lessons in te reo Maori and travelled has no intention of “completely changing second to none and we want to have a extensively between the University’s three Massey”; rather it is about “making sure workplace culture where people feel that campuses. the world is aware of just how great Massey every day they come to work and make a She says the decision to move to New is”. difference,” she says. Zealand was easy. During her career Professor Thomas has She is also committed to making Massey’s “I actively chose to leave my position as received numerous awards for teaching 140,000 plus alumni proud of their connection Vice-Chancellor of a fantastic university and leadership and has developed a reputation to the University. 18 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

THE VC’s CV Academic qualifications Bachelor of Science in veterinary biology, Murdoch University Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery, Murdoch University Master of Veterinary Studies in pathology, University of Melbourne Doctor of Philosophy, Murdoch University Career highlights Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Southern Queensland Deputy Vice-Chancellor Fremantle, University of Notre Dame Australia Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Murdoch University Professional memberships Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management Member of the Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary Scientists Member of the Quality Assurance Council, Hong Kong Chair of the Council for the Association of Commonwealth Universities “I am committed to making sure that sometimes it’s not been an easy journey. But their university is as good as it can get so to get to the point of graduation, where they Family they can be really proud of their alma mater are opening the door to the next phase of Three adult children, based in and their degrees have currency around their lives – it still sends shivers down my Australia. the world. spine.” “These are people who have actively She points out that Massey produces more One cat and one dog, which have moved with her to New Zealand. chosen to join the Massey family, people than 6300 graduates every year and research who have been successful at Massey and has shown that a university education leads had their careers launched by Massey. Now, to better earning capacity and better health when you think about the ripple effect of and wellbeing outcomes. these people in terms of how others think “If you look at the span of a life, it is really about Massey and how we connect into the quite remarkable what university graduation world, it is just so profound.” can achieve for an individual and for the Professor Thomas says she is looking next generation in that family. forward to attending her first graduation “I find it exhilarating to be part of a university ceremonies in April and May, particularly that can graduate that many people into the - Massey’s special Maori and Pasifika community, so I look forward to seeing how celebrations. our alumni go, to hear the stories of graduates “We know they have had a journey – and a year, five years, and 10 years later.” | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 19

Profile Making a better footprint for future generations Mavis Mullins says it is important to learn to be comfortable in the uncomfortable. - ith growing accolades to So well known is she in Maori circles, I would say ‘learn to be comfortable in the her name, and a lengthy that you just have to say Mavis and everyone uncomfortable’, because that’s where all history in agribusiness, knows who you are talking about. And it of the learning and growing takes place. WMavis Mullins is no- is no wonder. In 2002 she was made a It’s always so easy just to take the easy where near done yet. Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. option, but we have to figure out how we - Mrs Mullins (née Paewai), of Rangitane, Last year she won the rural category at the better leverage being in the uncomfortable - - - - Te A tihaunui-a-Paparangi and Ngati Westpac Women of Influence Awards, and zone.” Ranginui, has been awarded the Massey she will be inducted into the New Zealand With many notable achievements in her University Distinguished Alumni Service Business Hall of Fame in July. The extensive career andmore than 20 years’ experience Award for her work in the agricultural sector. list of achievements goes on. in governance in public and private A mother of four and grandmother to She says it is humbling to be honoured enterprises, she has become a well known 14, Mrs Mullins is a fifth-generation farmer. at Massey University’s annual Distinguished and respected leader within the wool and She and husband Koro purchased the Alumni Awards. “I’m grateful for the agribusiness sectors and on the international family shearing contracting business that acknowledgement, and I’m pleased for the business stage. dated back to her grandfather, the 1920s’ opportunities that have come my way. If And 2017 isn’t looking any quieter for All Black Lui Paewai. there is any really big message out there, Mrs Mullins. 20 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Mavis Mullins with her dogs Ivor and Snow. bruising time. We have revised and refreshed her focus is now on making a better world Winner of the Massey and now find ourselves in a better place to for her mokopuna. University Distinguished evolve. It is about how we reset for the future, “Better options, better opportunities, Alumni Service Award Mavis asking, ‘What does the primary sector look better outcomes. It’s not about me, it’s about Mullins says that her Master of like for those who are engaged in it for how we make a better footprint for the Business Administration gave tomorrow? How do we remain relevant and generations that are coming. How we make her the global language of valuable to those farmers of the future?’ It’s NZ Inc, or New Zealand Aotearoa, a place business and allowed her to not just about teaching the skill sets for that has meaning and relevance in a global understand how cultural farmers of tomorrow, but being mindful of context. I love that kind of thinking,” she values can be utilised in a who the consumers are and their future says. commercial context. She talks desires. So, for Taratahi, how do we Mrs Mullins, who graduated with a to Jenna Ward. purposefully and thoughtfully position this Master of Business Administration from entity to be a valuable component of agri- Massey in 1996, says her business mind education, agri-learning and agri-success began working at a young age. - for the long-haul? These are not quick-fix “Maori, all have some whakapapa to entities or small pieces of work. These are land somewhere, and with that you are intergenerational, solid projects that look often a beneficiary of or shareholder in a long and prepare now. It is about getting land block, so going to those meetings, “I have a number of really big things on the base solid.” understanding the connection between the cards. I chair the post-settlement entity In the late 1990s Mrs Mullins was appointed culture, politics and commerce is kind of - for Rangitane. We have almost completed to the board of Landcorp, where she held instilled at quite an early age, but it’s the Treaty settlement process, and are now the role for seven years. Since then she has something you don’t appreciate at the looking forward to enabling a different been a member of the MidCentral and time. For me it’s been about some of those - future for Rangitane – a future of revitalised Wairarapa District Health Boards and the cultural values that work so seamlessly, identity, a future of hope and met aspirat- Massey University Council. Her past being utilised in a commercial context. ions, where we can actively be a valued governance roles have included director- It’s been easy to recognise this, as New partner in our community, contributing to ships of 2degrees Mobile and Aohanga Zealand increasingly does business in Asia the health and wealth of all New Zealand. Incorporation, and she currently chairs and nderstanding the cultural imperatives It’s about tipping the glass upside down, so Atihau Whanganui Incorporation, the to build the commercial relationship on - - - Maori are no longer the problem, but we Poutama Trust, Rangitane Tu Mai Ra and top of that. The value of my MBA was that are the solution, so that’s an exciting space Taratahi. She is patron of the Agri-Women’s it gave me the language of business, a to be in. Development Trust. global language. I already had the cultural “I also chair Taratahi Agricultural Training So what drives her to keep up such a busy understanding. Together these can be Centre, which has come through quite a portfolio of work? With four adult children, powerful business instruments.” | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 21

- Maori visual arts Neon sculpture works light up artist’s year - Pioneering Maori visual artist Professor Bob Jahnke has had a prolific year, capped off by being acknowledged with a New Year’s Honour. By Paul Mulrooney. Last year, as well as 2015, was punctuated waterfront on May 12-21. with numerous exhibitions and preparing It’s a theme evident in his work that - new works amid celebrations for the stretches back to his time as a Maori - Bachelor of Maori Visual Arts degree he academic and pioneer in contemporary - founded more than 20 years ago, at what Maori art, acknowledged in the New is now Massey University’s College of Year’s Honours when he was awarded an Creative Arts. Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit - The pace that Professor Jahnke, Ngai (ONZM). - Taharora, Te Whanau a Iritekura, Te “It was a pleasant surprise but it’s good - - - Whanau a Rakairo o Ngati Porou, set in to be recognised for both Maori art and 2016 looks set to continue with the education,” Professor Jahnke says. unveiling of his latest work earlier this A commissioned 6.4-metre pou was also year on Waiheke Island, as part of the unveiled at Auckland in September. headland Sculpture on the Gulf festival. Pouwhakamaharatanga mo Maui tikiti The 2.4-metre work entitled Kaokao a Taranga references stories of the demigod - - t is extremely apt that Maori artist comprising two x-shaped structures that Maui with the three crowning figures - - Professor Bob Jahnke enjoys working form a diamond cavity fitted with neon representing Maui slowing the sun, Maui - with neon following a year where his lighting, lit up Waiheke Island earlier fishing up the North Island and Maui Iproductivity has earned him the right this year and is being taken to Wellington securing fire from Mahuika, the goddess to have his name up in lights. for the LUX Light Festival on the Wellington of fire. 22 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

The pou, commissioned by Waterfront featuring three feathers on one side and depicted in neon forms of diamonds, Theatre, stands in the Logan Campbell two on the other, representing a union triangles, crosses and clubs, that combined - Yard alongside the newly opened ASB between Maori culture and Western with mirror effects, appear endless and Waterfront Theatre. It is built from corten knowledge. multi-dimensional. - steel and laminated totara and provides a “The three feathers are an iteration of If that all sounds too arty, seeing it up - focal point for powhiri and ceremonial a tri-feather motif at the base of rafters front cannot stop the viewer being first occasions at the theatre. in some tribal houses and acknowledge intrigued and soon enchanted by neon - Much of Professor Jahnke’s work the mana whenua of Rangitane while the effects that embrace the inner child. possesses a creative vitality, often with a two feathers signify literacy and the signing As Professor Jahnke says, “Kids love political edge, all the while championing of the Treaty of Waitangi and acknowledge it.” - Maori art and using it to highlight important Palmerston North as a city of learning Previous page: - cultural issues. with Massey, UCOL and Te Wananga o Ripeka Kahurangi, Ripeka Whero and Ripeka - Kowhai (2015); Professor Bob Jahnke at the entrance A 6.4 metre Nga Huruhuru Rangatira Aotearoa all there,” he says. to his exhibition Ata. – Feathers of the Chief – archway sculpture The reflective nature of the work continues This page, clockwise from top left: was also unveiled last year on one corner a strand of thinking that was very much A 6.4-metre Nga Huruhuru Rangatira – Feathers of of The Square in Palmerston North. to the fore during his neon exhibition Ata the Chief – archway sculpture was unveiled last year on one corner of The Square in Palmerston North; - The stylised giant huia feathers, at Pataka in Porirua last year. the sculpture Kaokao at its temporary installation commissioned by the Palmerston North Meaning form and reflection, Ata ex- on Waiheke Island; Professor Jahnke in his workshop putting the finishing touches to Kaokao (the neon Public Sculpture Trust, are crafted from plores connections between light and lighting in the foreground gives a sense of how 3000 kilograms of ground stainless steel, perception and form and retrospection as people can see reflections from a distance); Ripeka Whero (2015) and Ata Tuatahi (2016). | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 23

Feature Massey University Press – helping make sense of the world, and ourselves ince she took up the reins as founding editor in Geoffrey Peren and William Riddet had a firm grasp July 2015, publishing powerhouse Nicola Legat of the notion that the college had a fundamental role has launched a phen-omenal 18 titles at Massey to play in the country’s development. SUniversity Press (MU Press), with another 15 books New Zealand needed Massey’s science and later, scheduled before the end of 2017. when it became a university, it would need Massey’s From sciences, social work and national security to poetry, social sciences and humanities to make a difference. the plight of provincial towns and personal essays, the Amongst the many gems of the text is from the Vice- range captures the diversity and depth of Massey’s scholars Chancellor Alan Stewart at the time of the creation of and thinkers in smart, compelling, accessible volumes the University. Stewart was an agricultural man, and designed to engage an intelligent, curious readership. he had to get used to the idea of bothersome social scientists and historians making life complicated for him. “What use will it be?” he asked of every new Six questions with Nicola Legat proposal. This is a remarkable output in scale and How do you think MU Press distinguishes itself It was, and remains, a very good question to ask. 1 substance – how you do it? 4 from other university publishers? And Massey’s academic staff responded by making I am a really fast worker, which is a facility that has stood Well, I am perhaps a different sort of publisher, having sure that whatever they did was useful. That was as me in very good stead over the years. I’m not sure how been a journalist for so much of my life. And I have true of its pioneering social work school as it was of I got to be that way but it certainly comes in handy! I decided that the press would take the University’s the writing of [Massey University Professor Emeritus and do have a sense that the University waited to have a former slogan at its word - The engine of the new New historian] Bill Oliver, who helped us make sense of press for a very long time and so I might as well get on Zealand. Taking the best of New Zealand to the world. our national story. That’s the kind of press I want this with it. These are great things to aspire to be, especially at a to be: useful and relevant. There’s been no shortage of books coming through time when, to me, our government doesn’t really seem Any new plans or developments for MU Press the pipeline; partly that’s the impact of 2017 being the to know what the “new New Zealand” might be except 5 in the future? final year of the current Performance-Based Research a place crammed with more tourists. We are going to dip our toes into children’s books, Fund round but also there are people across the University More than ever we, as a nation, need help to make where it makes sense and there is an evident link with fizzing with book ideas, plus I’ve had a few of my own. sense of the world – and of ourselves. The 160-year- the University. We are also doing some textbooks for courses that are old project that is New Zealand is a sometimes unique to the University and that adds to the size of the ramshackle, often mysterious and sometimes glorious Do you get time to read much other than list. affair that lurches on, all too often unassisted or 6 manuscripts for MU Press? If so, what’s been unmediated by deep thinking and an informed national a recent favourite or must-read recommendation? What’s the book you are most proud of having I try to. I sit on the board of the Auckland Writers 2 published so far at MU Press? cultural conversation. Festival and I am the Chair of the New Zealand Book Massey has been part of that project since its I love them all and it’s invidious to pick favourites, but Awards Trust, so it would be a poor show if I didn’t! probably it’s The Treaty on the Ground, which seems to founding as an agricultural college in the 1920s, in a I’ve just finished Sebastian Barry’s gripping American country still raw from the World War I and needing me to be a very important and timely book, which Civil War novel Days Without End, and of the latest assesses how far we have come as a nation that can live to make its way. Indeed, as Michael Belgrave’s wonderful crop from New Zealand writers, I cannot recommend recent history of the University (published by MU Press by the Treaty and how far we have yet to go. Most New Catherine Chidgey’s The Wish Child highly enough. Zealanders never think about this. We should, and not late last year) reveals, right from the beginning, Sir because it’s our duty but because it enriches us and makes this country special. Are you getting contacted with ideas for 3 potential books all the time? Yes we are, but I say “no” to many, many ideas, or I say, “How can we approach this idea from another angle and see if we can make a book out of it?” Nicola Legat is a former Random House New Zealand publisher and a widely acknowledged champion of New Zealand’s book culture. She is a former editor of Metro magazine and member of numerous literary and publishing organisations. She won the New Zealand Publisher of the Year Award for seven consecutive years. 24 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Defining Excellence Defining Excellence Awards 2017 The 2017 Defining Excellence Awards were held at Grand Millennium Auckland on March 23. It was the eighth year for the awards, which celebrate the achievements of Massey’s alumni and staff in research, teaching, professional achievement and community T service. For the first time the University presented two Partnership Excellence Awards, with The Warehouse Group and Weta Workshop honoured respectively in the domestic and international categories. The Partnership Excellence Awards recognise businesses and other organisations that work closely with Massey and exceed expectations in the relationships. Assistant Vice-Chancellor External Relations and Development Penelope Barr-Sellers presented the award with Holly Ryan, business reporter for The New Zealand Herald, Massey’s media partner for the event. Three other organisations, the New Zealand Defence Force, the New Zealand Leather and Shoe Research Association and Wellington City Council, were also nominated for Partnership Excellence Awards. Nominations for the 2018 Defining Excellence Awards open soon – keep an eye on the website for further information: alumnionline.massey.ac.nz | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 25 | 25 | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

Defining ExcellenceDefining Excellence TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARTIN McMORROW MARGARET BRUNTON TEACHING SUPPORT AWARD VICE-CHANCELLOR’S AWARD Martin McMorrow, a National Centre for Teaching FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE and Learning consultant, received a teaching Associate Professor Margaret Brunton capped off support award. Mr McMorrow is currently a stellar year by receiving a Sustained Excellence completing his PhD, which focuses on supporting in Tertiary Teaching Award at a ceremony at writing development. He joined Massey in 2005 Parliament in August. after 20 years working as a teacher and teacher trainer for Esol Education. He has drawn on this Dr Brunton was a recipient of the 2016 Vice- experience in providing support for international Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence students through face-to-face consultations and and also the Massey Business School Richard workshops and using digital resources, online Buchanan Teaching Excellence Award. presentations and podcasts. He has been praised The public relations and communication lecturer, for his “fellow learner” approach, which creates a who has taught at Massey’s Auckland campus for personalised and stimulating learning environment. 12 years, says she was honoured to win the award. He has worked in an increasingly collaborative way with content specialists to develop integrated Dr Brunton says she aims to equip students to navigate successfully a challenging, changing support in various disciplines. His overall goal is to and complex world. “One of my greatest joys as a provide relevant and engaging support for students teacher is to see the transformation in the levels that complements the learning activities provided of achievement between the first and the final by lecturers and helps them transition successfully assessments. into and through their tertiary studies. “Although, at times some students feel overwhelmed by standards they perceive as unattainable, retrospectively they also comment on how they appreciate the challenges of attaining a high standard in their work.” 26 | 26 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey UniversityMASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Defining Excellence RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS DR DAVID AGUIRRE DR JODIE HUNTER SHANNON TE AO EARLY CAREER MEDAL EARLY CAREER MEDAL EARLY CAREER MEDAL - - Dr David Aguirre, from the Institute Dr Jodie Hunter, from the College Shannon Te Ao, from Ngati Tuwharetoa, of Natural and Mathematical of Humanities and Social Sciences’ is a lecturer at Whiti o Rehua School Sciences at the College of Institute of Education, is a senior of Art in the College of Creative Arts in Sciences, has been a lecturer in lecturer based in Auckland. She Wellington. Working predominantly within marine ecology at Auckland since completed her Master of Education performance-and video-based practices, 2014. He received his PhD from at Massey while working as a Mr Te Ao has recently developed a body the University of Queensland in primary school teacher, then worked of work of international significance that 2012 and completed a two-year as a research fellow and lecturer has been exhibited extensively nationally postdoctoral fellowship there. His at Plymouth University, England, and internationally. research centres on quantifying where she completed her PhD, genetic and environmental influences before joining Massey in 2012. In 2014, he was New Zealand’s sole representative at the 19th Biennale of on phenotypes. In a research She specialises in mathematics career spanning barely four years, education, specifically innovative Sydney. In 2015 he completed a Master of Fine Arts degree, graduating with he has been the recipient of a teaching and effective pedagogy and postdoctoral fellowship from the teacher development and learning. first-class honours, and last year he was awarded the Walters Prize, arguably New Rutherford Foundation Trust in 2013, a Marsden Fast-Start grant Dr Hunter has been awarded external Zealand’s most prestigious contemporary funding totalling more than $2 million art prize. from the Royal Society in 2014 and a Ministry of Business, Innovation for four research projects, the largest This year he will present new projects at $1.35 million last year from the and Employment Unlocking Curious the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o - Minds grant last year. Ministry of Education for research Waiwhetu, at Artspace Auckland and at called Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities: Auckland/ the Taipei Centre for Contemporary Art in Taiwan. Porirua. Mr Te Ao is an active writer and regular contributor to symposia, publishing material on localised notions of performative practice. His work is in the art collections of the University of Auckland, the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o - Tamaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 27 | 27 | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

Defining ExcellenceDefining Excellence RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS PROFESSOR PROFESSOR PROFESSOR KEVIN STAFFORD MARLENA KRUGER TONY PARKER INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH MEDAL INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH MEDAL SUPERVISOR MEDAL Health researcher Professor Marlena Industrial designer Professor Tony The individual Research Supervisor Kruger, from the College of Health’s Parker, from the College of Creative Arts, Medal has been awarded to School of Food and Nutrition, is one is the second of this year’s individual Professor Kevin Stafford from the of two individual winners of this winners of the Massey University Institute of Veterinary, Animal and year’s Massey University Research Research Medal. Biomedical Sciences. The medal Medal. recognises Professor Stafford’s Professor Kruger has contributed He is New Zealand’s leading University- based industrial designer, and a exceptional record of scholarly and practical support for, and to the development and leadership top-ranked researcher, whose expertise within the university context has of a bone health research team and successful supervision of, numerous postgraduate students over at least leads a large programme of research been recognised in New Zealand and internationally. His industrial design investigating the role of various two decades. He joined Massey in 1990 as a lecturer in sheep and beef nutrients, foods, bioactives and small career has resulted in more than 70 molecules in the protection and commercialised, mass-produced, medicine and production and has been a professor since 2003. He has maintenance of bone and joint health. creative outputs. become an internationally recognised Her research advances knowledge Professor Parker’s substantial expert on animal behaviour and on bone function and structure, contribution to New Zealand design, welfare. In the past 26 years, he has introducing information on the effects including his design work for Gallagher, supervised or contributed to the of lifestyle, nutrition, environment and has seen him win multiple awards and supervision of 23 PhD candidates and ethnicity on bone mass and hormone invitations to exhibit at international more than 44 master’s, postgraduate status to support bone health. events. His design expertise has been diploma and honours students. applied to a wide range of experimental At a time when the population and commercialised products, from He has been the institute director of continues to age, Professor Kruger’s Postgraduate Studies and dean of research has been described as Hulme supercars to security equipment including card access door readers, Postgraduate Studies and Research, critically relevant in generating teaming up students with suitable knowledge to maintain mobility in petrol station forecourt dispensers and other capital equipment. supervisors and often stepping in older people. to provide support. At the same time he has maintained a very large undergraduate teaching workload. 28 | 28 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey UniversityMASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Defining Excellence RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARDS Dr Ngaio Beausoleil, Professor Craig Johnson, Professor David Mellor, Professor Kevin Stafford and Neil Ward. ANIMAL WELFARE SCIENCE AND BIOETHICS CENTRE TEAM RESEARCH MEDAL Members of the Animal Welfare Science and Bioethics Centre from the College of Sciences are winners of the team award. The team comprises Professor David Mellor, Professor Craig Johnson, Professor Kevin Stafford, Dr Ngaio Beausoleil and Neil Ward, all from the Institute of Veterinary, Animal and Biomedical Sciences. Institute head Professor Paul Kenyon says the group has been hugely successful for a prolonged period, with a significant international reputation across a wide range of activities. “Few groups at Massey University can match the breadth and depth of their research outputs and their more than 600 national and international presentations,” Professor Kenyon says. In 2007 the World Organisation for Animal Health adopted the centre as its major collaborating centre in the animal welfare arena – a first for the Southern Hemisphere. Additional indicators of the huge success of this group include more than $7 million in research funding, more than 90 postgraduate student completions and expert advice offered to more than 30 government advisory committees and authorities. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 29 | 29 | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

Defining Excellence DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS MAVIS MULLINS PENGBO JIANG DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD DISTINGUISHED YOUNG ALUMNI With a growing number of accolades to her name, Mavis Master of Management graduate Pengbo Jiang is making - - - - Mullins, of Rangitane, Te Atihaunui-a-Paparangi and Nga - a name for himself as an advocate for new migrants. ti Ranginui, has forged a path in the primary sector with a The 26-year-old, who moved to Wellington with his family lengthy career in agribusiness. from Fuzhou, northern China, as a child, wants to ensure Born and raised in Dannevirke, southern Hawke’s Bay, that the settling-in experience for new migrants is as Mrs Mullins graduated with her Master of Business smooth as possible. Administration from Massey University in 1996. In the past 13 years he has volunteered thousands of A mother of fou and grandmother to 14, Mrs Mullins (née hours to different organisations in Wellington, working to Paewai) is a fourth-generation sheep farmer. She and help new migrants integrate into New Zealand society. husband Koro purchased the family shearing contracting He helps to promote and fundraise to showcase their business that dated back to her grandfather, the 1920s’ cultures in the community and also offers student and All Black Lui Paewai. business mentorship. With more than 20 years’ experience in governance in Mr Jiang works as a senior consultant at EY, is a board public and private enterprises, she has become a well member of Multicultural Learning & Support Services, a known and respected leader within the wool and agri committee member of the New Zealand Association of sectors and on the international business stage. Immigration Professionals and a committee member of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand China Friendship Mrs Mullins has sat on the boards of Landcorp, the Society. MidCentral and Wairarapa District Health Boards and the Massey University Council (2005-09). Her As part of his own integration to his adopted homeland, he - past governance roles have included directorships of is learning to speak Maori. 2degrees Mobile and Aohanga Incorporation, and she currently chairs Atihau Whanganui Incorporation, the In recognition of his community services he has been awarded the Pride of Workmanship Award by Rotary - Maori business development Poutama Trust, Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre and the post-settlement International and a Volunteer Connect Award by the Wellington City Council. - - governance entity Rangitane Tu Mai Ra. She is a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, won the rural category at last year’s Women of Influence Awards and will be inducted into the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame in July. 30 | 30 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey UniversityMASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI AWARDS PETER CHRISP ROSS McEWAN DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD SIR GEOFFREY PEREN AWARD Peter Chrisp’s work history defies a common When Ross McEwan was appointed Chief Executive of misperception – that a degree in the humanities and the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2013, it was considered social sciences is of little relevance in the world of one of the toughest jobs in banking. But the Massey business and enterprise. University alumnus has never been one to shy away from a challenge. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in social sciences and has been the New Mr McEwan completed his Bachelor of Business Studies Zealand Trade and Enterprise Chief Executive since at Massey University in 1979, with a major in human 2010, leading an organisation charged with lifting New resource management. He started his business career in Zealand’s economic performance by growing companies personnel and human resources roles at Unilever, Dunlop internationally. and then National Mutual. In the past 30 years he has had roles in the engineering, He progressed up the management ladder at National manufacturing and pulp and paper industries. He started Mutual, before taking the top job after the takeover by his work life with the New Zealand Engineering Union French insurance company AXA. At this stage he was one as an educator and negotiator and progressed through of the youngest chief executives in New Zealand, running the management ranks at Fletcher Challenge before the local operations of AXA at the age of 40. leading Norske Skog Paper in Kawerau. From there he was promoted to company headquarters in Oslo as He went on to become General Manager at the Senior Vice President Business Improvement , covering stockbroking firm First New Zealand Capital Securities operations throughout the world, before moving to before heading to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Sydney to run the Australasian businesses. He started in the role of General Manager before becoming Group Executive for Retail Banking Services, a Born and raised in Gisborne, Mr Chrisp has held several position he held for five years. board roles including the New Zealand Qualifications Authority, the Education and Training Support Agency, In 2012 he became Chief Executive Officer for United Kingdom Retail at the Royal Bank of Scotland, before the Australia Pulp and Paper Industry Council, the New Zealand China Council and the NZ Story group. securing the top job the following year. He has been partnered on this journey by his wife Judith, three children, a dog and a blue-tongued lizard. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 31 | 31 | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

PARTNERSHIP MASSEY PARTNERSHIP EXCELLENCE AWARD EXCELLENCE AWARDS The Massey University Partnership Excellence Award recognises organisations that are true partners to the University and share our vision to take the best of New Zealand to the rest of the world through excellence in creativity, connections and innovation. This is the third year the award has been presented. Previous winners were Fonterra (2015) and Ravensdown (2016). This year, for the first time, there were two awards presented, one for a domestic partner and one for an international partner. Finalists were selected from a wide range of organisations, locally and internationally. Each finalist has a longstanding relationship with the University and we congratulate them all on being nominated for this prestigious award. THE 2017 FINALISTS WERE: NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE The New Zealand Defence Force’s involvement with the University’s teaching programmes spans more than two decades and includes conjoint teaching, with teaching fellows from the force seconded to the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to teach defence and security studies. To mark the 100th commemoration of World War I, Massey and the New Zealand Defence Force, along with two other organisations, signed a partnering arrangement to produce The Centenary History of New Zealand and the First World War. This major research project will see 14 books published exploring different aspects of the war and creating the definitive history of the New Zealand experience of the 1914-18 war. NEW ZEALAND LEATHER AND SHOE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION The New Zealand Leather and Shoe Research Association and the College of Sciences have collaborated for more than a decade in an effort to remain current with the scientific advances related to the leather and shoe industries, which are both valued components of New Zealand’s land-based primary industries. Massey researchers gained a deeper understanding of the structure and capabilities of leather and skin using advanced particle accelerators, or synchrotrons, which are smaller versions of the Large Hadron Collider that proved the existence of the Higgs boson. This highly successful collaboration has led to 15 journal publications and numerous prizes at international conferences, putting New Zealand on the international map for leather research. WELLINGTON CITY COUNCIL The College of Creative Arts and Wellington City Council have worked together for the past five years to further connect the University with the capital. This relationship has seen the council provide the college with funding support, resourcing and guidance for a number of innovative and creative enterprise-focused projects. Additionally the college has collaborated with the council’s major projects – urban design, arts, Grow Wellington and neighbourhood teams on initiatives including the LUX Light Festival, Te Whare Hera International Arts Residency, the Spring project and the Value of Design project. WINNER – DOMESTIC THE WAREHOUSE GROUP The Warehouse Group is a major supporter of the Massey Business School, providing significant assistance for the school’s retail studies initiatives. The group has endorsed research conducted at the Centre for Advanced Retail Studies and contributes to the success of the annual Sir Stephen Tindall Distinguished Professor Lecture. It sponsors the Stephen Small Award for the best overall student performance in the Fundamentals of Retailing paper; the prize includes a day shadowing a senior executive at The Warehouse Group. WINNER – INTERNATIONAL WETA WORKSHOP In recent years Massey’s College of Creative Arts and Weta Workshop have collaborated on initiatives that have showcased New Zealand expertise internationally. Together the organisations have visited the People’s Liberation Army Academy of Art in China and jointly hosted the academy when its staff visited New Zealand. Last year, Massey and Weta sponsored New Zealand’s first Art and Industry of Imagination conference, which saw leading artists from New Zealand and around the world meet to discuss and demonstrate the behind-the-scenes magic that turns sci-fi and fantasy worlds into on-screen reality. 32 | 32 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey UniversityMASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Alumni notes and news Frank Sydenham’s lifelong love of horticulture took him on a journey from Massey to the Bay of Plenty interrupted only by war, writes Sandra Simpson. See page 34. | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 33 | 33 | 33 | Massey University | April 2016 | MASSEY| Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY

Alumni notes and news Snapshot Cassie Rowe Alumni Relations Manager K ia ora tatou, Alumni Relations at Massey exists to connect our past Already in 2017 we have run a series of events including the increasingly popular - Attending alumni functions is another great way to connect with old friends. graduates with each other, and with the wider Massey community. - The office supports alumni with a range of services, including Massey University Dinner & Dance on the Oval of the Manawatu campus in early providing opportunities to hear fellow alumni and Massey staff speak on March. The evening provides alumni, staff and members of the wider community various topics, running dinners and dances, facilitating reunions and providing with the opportunity to join together for an evening of entertainment, laughter - a bi-monthly e-newsletter and of course Massey magazine. and dancing on the picturesque Manawatu campus. Photos from the evening We encourage you to keep in touch with the Alumni Relations Office can be found in the following pages of the magazine. Thank you to everybody and share with us where in the world your Massey qualification has taken who joined us for a memorable evening. you. To guarantee that you hear about forthcoming functions and receive In order to improve services to the alumni community and measure the newsletters, you can update your details via alumnionline.massey.ac.nz or effectiveness of Alumni Relations, the office is running a survey in April and by emailing [email protected]. Those who update their details before 30 May using independent research company Colmar Brunton. Thank you to those June 2017 will go in the draw to win their choice of an Apple iPad or iPhone. alumni who have already provided feedback, whether it be formally through Reunions are an increasingly popular way to catch up with classmates, the Colmar Brunton survey or via informal suggestions at events and by email. friends, tutors and staff and the alumni office can help you to contact peers, The highlight of our role here at Alumni Relations is meeting you all and missing classmates and staff and organise your reunion. If you would like hearing stories of your time at Massey, so please stay in touch. - to know more or organise a reunion, please contact the office on alumni@ Until next time, nga mihi. massey.ac.nz. Cassie. Lasting legacy Frank Sydenham pictured in 1970 in his flax garden – Bay of Plenty Times, Tauranga City Libraries. - - assey University’s first master’s his Opotiki district sheep farm, moved to army in 1939 he was living in Ruakura graduate in horticulture not town and opened a plant nursery. (Waikato) and gave his address as the - - only has left behind a university Mr Sydenham was born in Opotiki in Department of Agriculture, Wellington. Mscholarship in his name but 1909, the only son of William and Effie Mr Sydenham joined the 2nd New Zealand is also being remembered in his adopted Sydenham, and brother to Freda (later Expeditionary Force and served overseas - home town of Tauranga by a botanic park Turner). He was educated in Whakatane, for almost five years in the 7th Field project. at Auckland Grammar School and at Massey Ambulance and the New Zealand Medical Frank Sydenham’s love of horticulture University – he was the first Massey student Corps. and floriculture was perhaps inescapable. to gain a master’s degree in agricultural With his father retired and living with His grandfather, William Sydenham, won science (horticulture), graduating in 1933. Freda in Katikati, Mr Sydenham purchased Royal Horticultural Society medals for his He worked as a sales representative for land in Brookfield, Tauranga in 1946. He flowers and, so the family story goes, after Harrison’s, then a prominent garden firm ran a flourishing floriculture business from a disastrous flood during the Depression, in Palmerston North, and travelled through- the property, including some export trade, Frank’s father (also William) walked off out New Zealand. When he enlisted in the and was a pioneer in cut foliage. He dispatched 34 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

weekly deliveries by air to Auckland, horticultural students trained on the Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, property, and when the facility was no Scholarship and supplied local florists. His garden longer required Tauranga City Council was included more than 100 varieties of flowers, asked to support the development of a Frank Sydenham created a Massey with one report describing it as “one of the botanical park, as per the trust deed, “for University scholarship in his name most beautiful, exotic gardens in New the enjoyment and benefit of the citizens in about 1971. Zealand”. A massed planting of daffodils Awarded for postgraduate study was the focus for popular open days, held in horticulture, agriculture, forestry as a fundraiser for St John. He worked hard – and “and related pursuits”, the Mr Sydenham planted an early variety was renowned for scholarship is available to those of kiwifruit in 1953 and had a citrus “treating holidays who attended a state secondary orchard, both harvested for the domestic school in the coastal Bay of Plenty. market. with contempt” Applications close at the beginning He worked hard – and was renowned of December. for “treating holidays with contempt” – but To find more on the Frank enjoyed regular fishing trips in Tauranga of Tauranga”. Sydenham scholarship, go to Harbour. Friends described the bachelor However, the first attempt failed, and in www.massey.ac.nz, admission, as “unworldly” and as rarely leaving Tauranga, 2011 the council announced that it was scholarships and awards. but being “completely self-sufficient” in unlikely to continue maintaining the site, his garden. which would lead to the property’s sale. In about 1971 a trust was established to This prompted a lively public meeting park’s Gondwana collection, as well as administer the 3.1 hectares of land, with where local residents were clear they being a world-class collection in their own the primary provision being to establish a wanted the botanic park to go ahead. right. Of the world’s 21 species of kauri, unit for horticultural education and conduct A new community advisory group and the park has 14. research and trials, largely in subtropical funding trust was formed in 2012 and has As well as the Gondwana collection, plants. A manager was appointed with Mr progressed the project – the planting of a Sydenham Botanic Park is also to feature - Sydenham living and working on the 24-strong Nikau palm collection, the Tane’s walkway (stories of local tangata property until his death in 1973. Initially, development of a wetland and the expansion whenua), the Frank Sydenham subtropical farm and orchard cadets and local secondary of the Agathis (kauri) collection donated collection and a collection of climbing plants. students made good use of the facilities. by Graham and Mavis Dyer. The first kauri To find out more about the project, see Later, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic were planted in 2004 and form part of the www.sydenhampark.wordpress.com Notes 1961 this period gave him a firm after an 11-year stint in Western 1972 foundation on which to build. Australia, where he worked in John Telford, Bachelor of He worked for three years for agricultural research. Based at Graham Morrison, Bachelor of Agricultural Science, 1961. the Victorian Department of Northam (90 kilometres inland Agricultural Science, 1972. After John Telford is grateful for the Agriculture and then for eight from Perth), he worked for the graduating Graham Morrison opportunity he was given to do years with the Bordertown Farm Western Australia Department worked as a farm adviser for an agricultural science degree Advisory Service. He then spent of Agriculture on two main Ministry of Agriculture and course at Massey Agricultural 15 years with an international projects – the first developing Fisheries in Marlborough until College from 1958 to 1960. It non-government organisation improved No-Tillage seeding May 1975. He then returned was a formative period of his involved in community practices and the second to work on the home farm in - life. He says he experienced development – in Australia, finding alternative weed control Rangitikei, which he operated in the learning environment Southeast Asia and Zambia. He practices and technologies. His partnership first with his father to be very supportive, with says his agricultural knowledge final three years in Australia and later with his wife. In 2009, excellent lecturers, and the was valuable in working with were spent working for the he amalgamated the family farm field excursions that required subsistence farmers. Western Australian No-Till with his cousin and nephew’s work on farms over the summer Farmers Association, trialling farm to form Morrison Farming. break meant that he had the 1968 new and better ways of Morrison Farming has since opportunity to see how the managing crop stubble (rather acquired more land and now theory worked in practice. He Mike Collins, Bachelor of than burning it). Since coming farms 1460 hectares running did not continue working in Agricultural Sciences, 1968. home to New Zealand, he and 16,000 livestock including the agricultural sector all his Mike Collins has been in his wife have further developed stud Herefords and Ezicare working life, but nevertheless Kerikeri for the past 10 years their Kerikeri orchard. sheep. His role encompasses | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 35

Alumni notes and news Dinner and dance Events - University alumni, staff and students and members of the wider Manawatu community came together for a picturesque evening of laughter and dancing at the 2017 Massey University Dinner & Dance. All proceeds from ticket sales were donated to the Massey University Foundation’s campaign to restore the historic Refectory building. Thank you to everybody who joined us and made it such a memorable evening. More photos can be found on the Massey University Alumni Facebook page. Rebekah Jourdain and Nick Allen Sarah Golding and Jane McLaughlin Sandi and Dave Shillington Andrea Clavijo McCormock, Richard Witehira, Isabel Castro Ross Hood, Alice Hood, Tommy Cushnahan, Megan Cushnahan, Darryl Stratton, Kylie Gibbard Drew McLeod and Kirsty Greenwell Lisa Young and Angus Bews Nikita Skipper, Katelynn Roy, Ben Schmidt, Juliette Xavier-Hendry Nigel Edgecombe and Elizabeth Gray Ping Peng, former Chancellor Morva Croxson, former Vice-Chancellor James McWha, Lindsay McWha Joan Murdoch, Dara Carthew, Mitch Murdoch Lynne Bishop, Tony Bishop, Susan Young, Aaron Dent, Kyle Whitford, Lisa Whitford, Jess Vindriis, Steven Vindriis, Cassie Rowe, Kerry Shippam Donor events The Massey University Foundation took the opportunity thank donors for their assistance in 2016 with three functions held in Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington. Gillian Peren and Dianne Kidd Sarah Kennedy and Heather Baigent Terry Langridge and Jean Longmore John Graham and David Speary 36 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Wildbase Hospital opening event 2017 - A celebration was held to recognise the opening of the new Wildbase Hospital on the Manawatu campus. The Wildbase Hospital is New Zealand’s only dedicated wildlife treatment facility, providing medical, surgical and rehabilitation care to hundreds of sick and injured native animals each year. It is also a respected research and teaching institution. Brett Gartrell, Stuart Morriss, Rob Jager, Vice-Chancellor Jan Thomas, Ray Geor, Giselle Byrnes, Alan Davis Vicki Stewart, Hugh Blair, Alana Blair, Rob Jager, Craig Shepherd, David Stewart, Russ Ballard Shell New Zealand Chairman Rob Jager Stephen Montgomery, James Terry, David Block, Paul Cocks David Stewart, Vicki Stewart, Craig Shepherd George Mason and scholarship recipient and Wildbase Director Brett Gartrell Adrienne French Bachelor of AgriScience class of 1976 reunion The Bachelor of AgriScience Class of 1976 came together to celebrate their 40th Reunion in the gardens of Tiritea House. The wet weather did not dampen spirits as class members reminisced of their time at Massey, - shared updates on their fellow alumni and toured the farms around the Manawatu Campus. Harry Baylis, Ric Ashby, Dave Baker-Gabb, Hugh Blair, Peter Roberts, John Baird (in wheelchair), David Gibbins, Helen Baylis, Bruce Haycock, John Oliver, Mitch Venning, Ray Webb, Pauline Allpress, Murray Willis, John Stantiall (1977 grad), Craig Donaldson, Mark Blackwell (in front), Bernie McLeod (back), Colin Horton, Colin Kay, David Owen (front), Graham Bennett (back), Lionel Hume, Lah Uyo (front), Francis King, Chiu Tiong, Tim McVeagh, Minh-Long Nguyen, Ian Barugh, Bill Hare SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco-based alumni gathered in September 2016 to hear Linda Jenkinson share her career highlights and the innovations she has planned for the future. Linda Jenkinson Tunan Pan, Andrea Wells, Jonathan Wells Lesley Tilley and Linda Jenkinson | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 37

Alumni notes and news Women of Influence event Massey University representatives gathered to celebrate the alumni and staff finalists in the 2016 Women of Influence Awards in November. The awards recognise and celebrate women who are making a difference to New Zealand. Twenty per cent of the 101 finalists had an affiliation with Massey University. Rachel Petero, Nicola Legat, Andrea Brewster, Chelsea Millar, Dianne Kidd, Dr Angie Farrow, Tracey Bridges, Sian Simpson, Dr Shirley Julich, Dr Huhana Smith, Mavis Mullins, Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh, Professor Sarah Leberman, Professor Robin Phipps Ross George, Mavis Mullins, Lindy Nelson Sian Simpson, Deanna Riach, Mitch Murdoch Dr Shirley Julich and Harry Julich Sue Foley, Penelope Barr-Sellers Lorraine Millar, Chelsea Millar, Damian Buckley. Professor Ted Zorn, Professor Sarah Leberman and Professor Giselle Byrnes Dianne Kidd, Richard Kidd, Geoffrey Kidd, Emily McFarlane To view upcoming reunions and events, visit alumnionline.massey.ac.nz 38 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

Defining Excellence Awards The Defining Excellence Awards took place on 23 March in Auckland to honour staff, researchers and alumni who have made outstanding contributions to Massey University and to their professions, communities or the nation. Peter Chrisp Pengbo Jiang Professor Tony Parker Professor Giselle Byrne, Professor Marlena Kruger, Professor Tony Parker, Vice-Chancellor Jan Thomas Ross McEwan and Professor Ted Zorn Maddie McLean, Jonathan Elms, Deborah Dalliessi Martin McMorrow, Emma Kenyon, Chin Feng Shih Mavis Mullins and Dr Charlotte Severne Associate Professor Ruili Wang, Professor Diane Brunton, Dr David Aguirre, Dr Libby Liggins, Peter Chrisp, Pengbo Jiang, Vice-Chancellor Jan Thomas, Mavis Mullins, Dr Weihong Ji Ross McEwan Professor Glyn Harper, Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, John McLeod, Vice Chief of Defence Force Kevin Short, Neil Ward, Dr Ngaio Beausoleil, Professor Craig Johnson, Professor Kevin Stafford John Crawford and Professor Rouben Azizian Heather Crichton, David Wilks, Professor Claire Robinson, Philippa Bowron, Anna Brown, Penelope Barr-Sellers, Anna Campbell, Holly Ryan Professor Tony Parker, Sara Parker Front: Rebecca Sinclair, Shannon Te Ao | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 39

Alumni notes and news many of the skills he learned More Stories of a Museum his degree, Jim Napier 1987 as a consultant, including Curator, published in July 2016. worked for the dairy industry accounts and decisions on It contains 14 self-contained in New Zealand (Te Puke) seeds, fertilisers and sprays. stories that refer to various and Australia (Leongatha, Graham Morrison has also natural history specimens Victoria), before returning to continued the sports interests Gill came to know during his work as a research associate at he experienced at Massey. He curatorial career. One aim of the Massey, Palmerston North in represented Massey at cricket book is to cast light on the work the Department of Chemistry, and rugby and played cricket for of natural history curators and Biochemistry and Biophysics - Marlborough and Rangitikei – explain the value and relevance for five years. He then worked becoming involved in coaching of museum collections. Gill says in Hamilton as a research Vicki Arnott, Bachelor and administration and serving that the science lecturers and associate at Ruakura in the of Education, 1987. Since on the Central Districts senior courses at Massey stimulated area of growth physiology and graduating, Vicki Arnott has and junior administrations. his sense of wonder for biology protein chemistry for 15 years. worked as a primary school In 2000 he started work in and the natural world. occupational safety and health teacher. She is a member of 1977 as a health and safety inspector the New Zealand Educational Institute and has served as 1978 in Hamilton. He completed a branch President for Reporoa Brian Gill, Bachelor of Science Grad Dip OSH extramurally, and as an NZEI District Council with honours, 1977. Brian Gill which included occupational representative and women’s completed a degree in zoology hygiene. He then worked for coordinator for Bay of Plenty. at Massey in the mid-1970s. a consultancy in Sydney and She has completed courses in After studying birds at other returned to New Zealand to special education, women’s universities he worked for a health and safety inspector studies, counselling and more than 30 years as a natural position with WorkSafe New screenwriting. In her role as history curator at Auckland Zealand in 2012. In 2015 he a school teacher she has held Museum. Details of his career took an occupational hygiene positions of responsibility for in ornithology are given in a Jim Napier, Bachelor of job – also at WorkSafe – where ICT, literacy and the arts. She new book, The Unburnt Egg: Science, 1978. After completing he still is. wrote her first book, a fantasy UPDATE YOUR DETAILS WITH MASSEY UNIVERSITY WANT TO KNOW THE ALUMNI NEWS AND WHAT EVENTS ARE COMING UP? Let us know where you are and your career details before 30 June 2017 to win your choice of an iPad or iPhone, or one of 10 runner-up prize packs. VISIT alumnionline.massey.ac.nz CONTACT [email protected] 40 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

adventure for children, last Veterinary Sciences at Massey 1999 2002 year, and is currently writing University in May 2016. She her second novel. She is also a was awarded an Honorary Ashna Storey, Bachelor of Petra Stolz Baskett, MA member of the New Zealand Life Membership of the New Social Work with Honours, 1999. (Nursing), 2002. Petra Stolz Society of Authors and the Zealand Veterinary Association Ashna Storey worked at Shine Baskett was awarded a 2016 Rotorua Writers’ Group. in June 2016. (Safer Homes in New Zealand Multinational Association of Every Day) for nearly 14 years Supportive Care in Cancer 1993 1996 as a senior practitioner. She Young Investigator Award. was contracted to Child, Youth She is finishing a PhD through Albert Chee, Postgraduate and Family, Manurewa and the Florence Nightingale Diploma in Business Onehunga and worked alongside Faculty of Nursing and Administration, 1996. After social workers who were Midwifery at King’s College, completing his diploma, Albert working with families dealing London. Chee worked overseas in Hong with domestic violence. She Kong and spent a few years and her husband have retired to with HSBC Trustee and HSBC Nelson. Asset Management, and then Sue Edmonds, Graduate Manulife International before Judy Ward, Postgraduate Diploma in Business Studies, returning to Auckland in 2003. Diploma in Health Service 1993. Sue Edmonds began her He joined the Department Management, 1999. Judy Ward academic life with a BA in the of Corrections in 2004 as a graduated in 2011 and continued Waikato before making the move corrections officer and works at working in health in a variety to Wellington and deciding to Paremoremo Prison. of roles. One of these was as a complete the Massey Graduate key member of a small team of Daniel Boon, Bachelor of Diploma in Business Studies 1998 nurses who supervised exercise Aviation, 2002. Daniel Boon while working as Environment tolerance tests in cardiology says that Massey is without a Private Secretary to Sir Geoffrey services. In collaboration with doubt the best flight training Palmer. She was later invited others, she was a key author of academy in the Southern by Victoria University to do its credentialing the training for Hemisphere. After graduating, Diploma in Industrial Relations this service. Boon was a chart editor with as at that time she was national Lufthansa. He was later union delegate for the State offered a job to instruct at the Services Commission. Making 2000 first foreign flight academy in use of her qualifications, China. In 2009 he became a Edmonds went on to set up an May Lim, Bachelor of Business Sam De Silva, Master of test pilot for Diamond Aircraft industry training organisation Studies, 1998. After graduating Business Studies, 2000. Sam Industries (Austria) for its for the ambulance industry. from Massey University, May De Silva has been living and factory in China. In 2011 he After moving back to Waikato Lim joined Heinz Wattie’s as Key working in the UK since 2001. flew a Hawker 4000 business in 1997, Edmonds sold snacks in Accounts Manager running the He is currently a partner and jet and for his second type vending machines for a while, export business. She found her head of the IT and outsourcing rating flew the Gulfstream then landed a column on being degree in international business practice at leading international 550, which he is still doing. a “lifestyler” in the Waikato to be a key contributor to her law firm Nabarro. Sam De Silva He says his training at Massey Times. From there she became landing this job and having so specialises in legal support was invaluable and especially a farming writer, and continued much success. After four years for IT and telecommunication mentions tutor Hugh Francis her columns and articles in Coast with Heinz Wattie’s, Lim was projects. He is both the UK and instructor Paul Kearney, & Country News for several more transferred to Hong Kong, representative on the EU who instilled in him discipline years, while running a small then to Singapore, Malaysia, Commission’s Expert Group and professionalism. company designing and selling Indonesia and back to Malaysia. on Cloud Computing Contracts children’s chairs. These days The postings allowed her to and on the IT Committee of she is an environmental lobbyist enjoy an expatriate lifestyle in the Bars and Law Societies (with a particular interest in Asia and continue to develop her of Europe. He is on the soils) among farmers, councils career. Lim has stayed within International Advisory Board and government organisations, the fast-moving consumer of the Cyber Rescue Alliance, such as AgResearch, and is also goods industry and has worked which is a business assistance a poet and artist with a lifestyle for some outstanding industry alliance helping its members block that she shares with a few leaders in sales, marketing, to reduce the harm caused by cows, donkeys and goats. finance and management. cyber-attacks. He has written Megan Jackson, Master of Currently, she is the Managing and spoken extensively on IT Applied Social Work, 2002. 1994 Director of a Hong Kong-based and outsourcing and is regularly After graduating, Megan food company, managing a team called upon by the industry as Jackson worked in a specialist Jenny Weston, Bachelor of comprising production, research a thought leader in these areas. role as an early intervention Veterinary Science, 1994 and and development, marketing, He has been interviewed in the worker, based at Child and PhD Science, 2012. Jenny sales, human resources and press, on radio, in webinars and Adolescent Community Weston was appointed Dean of finance specialists. on television. Centre and later at the | Massey University | April 2017 | MASSEY | 41

Alumni notes and news adult mental health unit parenting groups and groups advocate. She is a regular 2007 at Taranaki Base Hospital. for clients suffering first-time contributor to The Huffington She has also worked for mental illness. Post and ForbesWomen and Presbyterian Support Central has been published in the for the past 12 years and is 2006 Harvard Business Review, Regional manager of Taranaki TIME magazine and Forbes. Family Works, where she King has interviewed a wide provides counselling, social range of high-profile people work, parenting education, on the topic of advancing mediation and strengthening women, such as the Dalai safety services for women. Lama, Cara Delevingne, Helen Megan Jackson is a qualified Clark, Geena Davis, Amy Glenn Conner, Bachelor of cognitive behaviour therapist Poehler, Jennifer Beals and Engineering with Honours, and has used this mode in Molly Bernard. She has spent 2007. After majoring in software working with adults, couples, a number of years overseas, engineering, Conner was an early adolescents and children. She Michelle King, Master living in South Africa, employee at start-up Aptimize, has also facilitated a range of of Arts, 2006. Michelle Australia, England, Texas and which was successfully acquired therapeutic and educational King’s passion is to help now New York City. She is by Riverbed Technology. Conner groups, including groups for women advance at work. currently pursuing her PhD stayed with the company, which women suffering depression, She currently works for UN through Cranfield University led to a move to San Francisco social skills and drug Women, while also being on the topic of gender in where he still lives and works as a education groups for children, a writer, researcher and organisations. software engineer for Facebook. Talman Madsen, Bachelor of Business Studies, 2016. After being inspired on a trip to the South Island, Talman Madsen left his job, grew a beard and became a full-time photographer. With a love for nature and a willingness to forgo sleep to get his stunning shots, he has become a specialist in shooting sunrises, sunsets, auroras and the stars. He has a large Instagram following and has enjoyed jobs with Lonely Planet, Snapchat, and various tourism boards and adventure companies. In 2016, he was named the New Zealand Geographic Young Photographer of the Year. 42 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

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Kelvin Musonda, Bachelor of Strange Beast, a production 2015 from Massey. There is no Science, 2007. After graduating, studio. He works in a range university qualification in Kelvin Musonda spent his of media, including music Australia that was specific to career teaching in Zambia. He videos, commercials, festival Quality assurance. She says: began at the Zambia College identities, album artwork, “I was fortunate to achieve of Agriculture before being installation projections, 360 a Master of Quality Systems promoted to Vice Principal videos, wall murals and prints. (Distinction) in 2015 by which saw him move to His style spans poppy live distance education and this the Cooperative College in action, hypnotic 2D animation, is well regarded in Australia. Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. puppetry and illustration and Again, there is no equivalent Musonda was promoted to he has had work screened at Marie McCusker, Master of qualification in Australia, which Principal of the Palabana international festivals including Quality Systems, 2015. Marie makes it a valuable qualification.” Dairy Training Institute and is Pictoplasma, File Anima+ and McCusker is currently the thoroughly enjoying the role. CutOut Fest. Wallace studied Business Systems Quality 2016 “The experience and academic graphic design at Massey, but Manager at Forensic Science knowledge I gained from in the final six months of his Service Tasmania. Previously Susanne Robinson, Master Massey have greatly contributed degree his interest shifted she worked in private industry in of Applied Social Work, to career promotions and towards animation. After New Zealand and Australia and 2016. Susanne Robinson was fitting in to new jobs. Massey graduating, he completed was awarded the Queensland employed by the Salvation Army University and all my lecturers self-initiated projects to build Business Woman of the Year in the final three months of and colleagues will always have up his motion portfolio and Award (for large companies) completing her research report a place in my mind and heart,” get into the industry. He still for service to the meat industry. for her Master of Applied Social he says. follows the design process She was then head hunted by an Work, initially on a 12-month he learnt at Massey, and his Australian organisation while contract, but she is now a 2008 knowledge of typography and living and working in New permanent employee. She says composition has complemented Zealand. She believes this was she gets to see other Massey Thomas Platz, PhD in earth his animation work. due to having a Postgraduate graduates who work around science, 2008. Thomas Platz Certificate in quality assurance Newtown, Wellington. completed his PhD in earth 2012 science at Massey University, where he studied in detail Obituary: Bernard Jervis the last eruptive phases Post-retirement proved to be some of the most of Mt Taranaki. When he productive years in the life of Massey alumnus Bernard got back to Germany he Jervis, who died last year. shifted to planetary sciences, After retiring from a 30-year career with the New investigating the geology of Zealand Department of Justice in 1998, the Featherston planetary surfaces including those of Mars, the Moon and man embarked on a new education-centred life. dwarf planet Ceres. Currently He was recruited by the head office of the World Society of Victimology to he is working on NASA’s Dawn Tareq Branney, Bachelor travel to Sarajevo to set up a similar institute in the city. It was in the course of Mission to unveil Ceres’s of Arts, 2012. Tareq Branney carrying out this brief that he made the first of several visits to the Bosnian city secrets. The recurrent theme uses the skills he learnt from of Tuzla, arousing his interest in the city that was later to become the site for throughout his career has his Bachelor of Arts (media postgraduate field work. been (and still is) his interest studies), every day. He In 2003, inspired by those earlier visits, he enrolled at Massey University to in volcanism – on Earth and worked as Communications start working on his PhD in social anthropology. elsewhere. Coordinator for the Wellington City Mission Upon his return to New Zealand he also wrote a play, Kapija, based on an for more than two years army shooting that happened in Tuzla. It was adapted for radio production, 2009 and also started his own and while he did not live to hear the live broadcast, was able to listen to filmmaking and copywriting the final cut on disc shortly before his death. It won the Community Access business, Howie Shoot. He Programme section at the 2016 New Zealand Radio Awards for Best Spoken/ now works part-time at the Informational English Language Programme. Wellington City Mission, Mr Jervis was a keen supporter of the Massey University Foundation in its as a copywriter, in order to role of providing scholarships and support to future generations of researchers. grow the business. Howie Shoot specialises in creating He was himself the beneficiary of an unexpected grant from an anonymous professional and affordable donor that enabled him to complete his doctorate as a mature student after marketing content for small retirement. Robert Wallace, Bachelor businesses and not-for-profit Community service also marked his later years, as a JP on the bench of Design, 2009. Currently organisations. He believes of Masterton District Court, and a committee member with the local and living in London and working that the diverse education international Red Cross and latterly, the Featherston Camp Memorial Trust. This under the alias Parallel he received while studying for was established to commemorate the World War I military camp set up on the Teeth, Robert Wallace is his BA at Massey University outskirts of the town, with a memorial currently being created by renowned represented as a director, enabled him to build his sculptor Paul Dibble. animator and graphic artist by unique business. 44 | MASSEY | April 2017 | Massey University

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