Peggy Fairbairn-Dunlop | |
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.jpg) Fairbairn-Dunlop in 2015 | |
| Alma mater | Macquarie University |
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| Fields | Pacific Studies |
| Institutions | University of the South Pacific,Auckland University of Technology,UNDP,UNIFEM andUNESCO |
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| Doctoral students | Esther Tumama Cowley-Malcolm[1] Karanina Sumeo[2] |
Margaret Ellen Fairbairn-DunlopCNZM is a Samoan-New Zealand academic. She is the first person in New Zealand to hold a chair inPacific studies.[3]
Fairbairn-Dunlop studied atVictoria University of Wellington, graduating with a Master of Arts degree. She completeda PhD atMacquarie University in Australia.[4]
Fairbairn-Dunlop lived in Samoa from 1981 to 2005, where she worked for aid organisations based in the Pacific such asUNDP,UNIFEM andUNESCO.[5]
On her return to New Zealand, she was appointed the inaugural director of Va’aomanu Pasifika, the Pacific Studies department at Victoria University of Wellington.[6]
Fairbairn-Dunlop was the founding Professor of Pacific Studies atAuckland University of Technology. She is also chair of the Health Research Council Pacific team and sits on a number of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health committees, the Social Sciences committee of theRoyal Society Te Apārangi and the UNESCO Social Sciences Committee.[5]
In 2013 she was appointed president ofPACIFICA, an organisation that aims to help Pacific Island women to participate in and contribute to public life in New Zealand.[7]
In the2008 New Year Honours, Fairbairn-Dunlop was appointed anOfficer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to research on families.[6][8] In the2015 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was promoted toCompanion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and the Pacific community.[9][10]
Fairbairn-Dunlop won theMinistry of Education (New Zealand) Pacific Education Award at theSunPix Awards 2022.[11] She said, "“I hope the young people coming through have watched and learned from our generation and seen what they can do and what they should do for our people.”[12]
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