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Massey University's senior leadership team is responsible for the management of the university and is led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jan Thomas.
Professor Jan Thomas commenced as Vice Chancellor of Massey University in January 2017. From 2012 Jan served as Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. Prior to that, she held various senior executive positions at Murdoch University and the University of Notre Dame Australia from 2003.
Professor Thomas has a PhD in Veterinary Science from Murdoch University and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute for Company Directors. She has received numerous awards for her leadership in education.
Professor Thomas currently holds the position of Chair for the Managing Council of the Association of Commonwealth Universities based in London and is a member of the Hong Kong Quality Assurance Council.
Professor Kelly commenced his academic career in 1998, following a decade spent working in the building materials and construction sector. He has a Bachelor of Administration from Griffith University (1987), a Master of Business (1997) and a Doctor of Philosophy (2004) from Southern Cross University. His PhD thesis focused on the identification and analysis of relationship benefits in business-to-business channels.
Before joining Massey, he held management and leadership positions at educational institutions in Singapore and Australia, including academic director and managing director of the M2 Academy in Singapore from 2013 to 2015 and head of school, and subsequently dean, of the Southern Cross Business School in Sydney from 2006-13.
Professor Robinson has degrees in politics and design. She researches and writes and commentates on the visual communication of political messages, political marketing, political advertising, leadership image and election campaigning in New Zealand.
Professor Jane Mills qualified and worked as a nurse in Tasmania and held a variety of clinical, management and academic roles in Queensland, Victoria and Britain. She has a General Nursing Certificate from the Royal Hobart Hospital, a Bachelor of Nursing and Master of Nursing from the University of Tasmania, a Graduate Certificate of Education (Tertiary Teaching) from James Cook University, a Master of Education (Distinction) from Charles Sturt University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University. Her PhD thesis was on rural nurses' experiences of mentoring.
Professor Mills has worked at Monash as a senior research fellow, at James Cook University as a senior lecturer and deputy head of the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Nutrition, associate professor and associate dean research in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, professor promotional chair and deputy dean of the Graduate Research School and director of the Centre for Nursing and Midwifery Research.
Professor White is an internationally recognised scholar in applied linguistics. She completed her honours degree in linguistics and her postgraduate qualifications in TESOL (formerly Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) at Victoria University in Wellington and was appointed a junior lecturer in 1978. She then completed projects funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Thailand and China before joining Massey University as a lecturer in 1983. Her PhD, completed at Massey University in 1993, was a comparative study of the strategies used by distance and classroom language learners. Professor White has been an invited plenary speaker at international conferences in the UK, Germany, Hawai’i, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Uzbekhistan, Vietnam, Australia and Taiwan.
In 2004 she received the International TESOL Virginia French Allen Award for Scholarship and Service to the TESOL profession. Since 2012, she has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Australia’s University of New England. She is also a member of the Marsden Fund and chair of the Humanities panel. Professor White has served as a member of the Massey University Council, and research director of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is president of the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand and a member of the international committee of AILA (International Applied Linguistics Association).
Professor Geor is a trained veterinarian with more than 30 years teaching and research experience, and has recently returned to New Zealand from the United States.
Professor Geor graduated from Massey University as a veterinarian in 1983 before completing a large animal internship at Murdoch University in Perth. He then practised as a veterinarian in New Zealand and Canada, followed by a residency and masters degree in 1988 at the University of Saskatchewan and a doctoral degree at Ohio State University in 1999.
Prior to joining Massey in June 2015, Cathy Magiannis was with the Ministry of Education, as Education Payroll Services deputy secretary and helped resolve the issues in delivery of payroll services and led the transition of the Novopay service to Education Payroll Ltd. She then took on the role of Education Payroll chief executive, where she oversaw an intensive work programme to build on the improvements that had already been made to the schools’ payroll system and service. Her experience spans the public and private sectors. She is a highly experienced leader and operational manager with proven programme delivery expertise. Before joining the ministry, she was chief executive of Gareth Morgan Investments Group and, prior to that, held senior management roles at the Inland Revenue Department, including KiwiSaver programme director, where she led the implementation of the Government’s KiwiSaver initiative across several government agencies.
Stuart has passed away after recently becoming unwell and retiring from the University on medical grounds. Anyone who would like to communicate their best wishes to Stuart’s family may do so here.
Stuart Morriss is Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global Engagement at Massey University. Stuart is Director and Chair of the Board of Massey Global Limited, and Director of Massey Global Singapore Private Limited. He is also currently Chair of the New Zealand Advisory Board of the New Zealand Centre at Peking University, Beijing, China.
He leads the Global Engagement Team; responsible for transnational education, international marketing; recruitment; relations, student mobility, professional and continuing education. Stuart is also responsible for the management of the University’s property and facilities.
Stuarts previous roles within Massey have included; University Registrar responsible for stewardship of the constitutional affairs of the University, and for governance support and the secretariat for the University Council; Deputy Vice-Chancellor Operations responsible for the operations and services of the University; Director, Strategic Policy within the University Registrar’s Office; and Director, Massey Agriculture and Programme Director (Applied Sciences) in the University’s College of Sciences. Before returning to the University in 1996, Stuart was Rural Policy Manager with the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
Stuart has an Agricultural Science degree from Massey University and a Masters degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington.
Professor Meihana Durie, of Rangitāne, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Raukawa Te Au ki Te Tonga, Ngāti Porou, Rongo Whakaata, Ngāi Tahu, has led Te-Pūtahi-ā-Toi for the past two-and-a-half years and is an award-winning Māori public health and education scholar. He also holds a number of leadership roles in tikanga and Te Reo Māori for Rangitāne, Ngāti Kauwhata and Ngāti Raukawa Te Au ki Te Tonga.
Professor Durie will continue to have a leadership role at Te-Pūtahi-ā-Toi and he brings a wealth of experience to the role of DVC Māori. Prior to joining Massey in 2017, he was the Health Research Council (HRC) Hohua Tutengaehe Postdoctoral Fellow. Before that he was Kaihautū/Academic Director at Te Wānanga o Raukawa, where he established Ngā Purapura and the associated Bachelor of Māori Health Promotion. He currently sits on the HRC Māori Health Committee and has been a member of a number of national review panels and advisory committees.
Professor Durie is a Massey alumnus, having graduated with his PhD from Massey in 2011. His whānau has a long history with the University, and continue a longstanding involvement with many Māori health, education and cultural initiatives.
A former senior human resource manager at a variety of large public and private sector organisations, Mr Davis brings legal and business qualifications to his role leading the strategies, policies and advisory services on employment relations, remuneration, capability development, health and safety, and payroll administration.
Professor Byrnes is an internationally recognised historian, with senior management experience in universities in Australia and in New Zealand, who joined Massey in January 2016. She has a Bachelor of Arts in History and English and a Master of Arts in History from the University of Waikato and a PhD in History is from the University of Auckland. She has worked for the Waitangi Tribunal, taught at Victoria University of Wellington and held academic and management roles at the University of Waikato and Charles Darwin University.
Professor Byrnes has been Fulbright scholar teaching New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and has served as President of the New Zealand Historical Association. She has a commitment to advancing the agenda around equity and access to higher education and is a strong advocate of the critical role played by modern universities in creating social, cultural and intellectual capital for public benefit and economic wellbeing.
Tere commenced as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Students and Alumni in November 2019. His remit covers all student and alumni activities, including marketing, student recruitment and outreach, student services, health and counselling, campus life and operations, student administration, admissions and enrolment, registry and alumni relations. He has held senior level roles in both public and private sector education providers for more than a decade, across the UK, Australia and New Zealand.
Tere is currently working to complete his Doctorate in the field of Internationalisation and Marketing Strategy and holds a Master of Research (2015) from London South Bank University, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Systems (2000) and Bachelor (1999) from the University of Waikato. Tere is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a Member of the Institute of Directors and Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
Before joining Massey, Tere was the Pro Vice-Chancellor, External Relations at Solent University, Southampton and has held a number of Board/Director level roles in business and civic enterprises.