Auditors

Roger Atkinson has recently retired as Group Quality and Systems Manager for Tait Electronics Limited, leading the company’s ISO 9001/14001 quality and environmental management programmes.  Roger is a graduate of the University of Canterbury (BE in Electrical Engineering), spent 4½ years with Elliott Automation (later Marconi Space & Defence Systems) in the United Kingdom working as a development engineer on underwater weapons and sonar systems.  After a further 6½ years with Philips in the Netherlands, where he held the position of Quality Manager for professional tape recording and cinema products, Roger returned to New Zealand in 1977 to join Alex Harvey Industries (AHI) as Corporate Quality Assurance Manager and later as Manager of AHI Technical Centre.  After leaving Carter Holt Harvey in 1986, Roger spent 2 years as a self‑employed management consultant and a further 3½ years in a variety of senior quality management roles with the Fletcher Challenge group, before joining the senior management team at Tait Electronics in 1991.  Roger is a director, honorary life member and past President of the New Zealand Organisation for Quality.  Previous professional associations included FQSA, SMASQ, MIQA and MIET.  He has been an independent Senior Auditor for JAS-ANZ since its inception in 1991 and is a member of its Accreditation Review Board.

Penny Boumelha is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Victoria University of Wellington, having served previously as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at the University of Adelaide (1999–2005). Penny Boumelha holds an M.A. and a D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford, and has published widely on nineteenth-century fiction (especially Thomas Hardy), on ideologies of gender and race, and on literary genres, as well as on issues in tertiary education and university management. She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Humanities in Australia in 1997.  She was named in the 1996 Campus Review Independent Teaching Survey as one of Australia’s most respected teachers of English, and has been a member of national bodies including the Australian Vice-Chancellors’ Committee’s Standing Committee on Education and Students. She has served as an accredited quality auditor of universities in both the New Zealand and the Australian agencies. In 2003 she was awarded a Centenary Medal by the Commonwealth Government of Australia for services to Australian society and the humanities in English language and literature.

Margaret Burrell is an Associate Professor, French Programme, School of Languages and Cultures, at the University of Canterbury.  While completing her Bachelor of Arts at Canterbury, Margaret became interested in medieval French then went to Victoria University of Wellington to study for her Masters.   Margaret obtained a doctorate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. At the University of Canterbury, Associate Professor Burrell has held a number of administrative positions and had involvement on a number of committees including Acting Dean of Postgraduate studies, Proctor and member of Academic Appeals Committee.

Professor Dalziel is Emeritus Professor of History at The University of Auckland. She was previously head of the Department of History and from 1999 – 2009 held the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), responsible for the academic affairs of the University. During her time as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dalziel oversaw the quality assurance and audit self-review processes at Auckland over three academic audit cycles.

Professor Dalziel is currently Chair of the Humanities and Law peer review panel for the 2012 PBRF Quality Evaluation and was previously Chair of the Humanities and Law panel for the 2006 Quality Evaluation. Professor Dalziel has served on a number of national working parties and committees, including the Ministerial Working Party on Charters and Profiles 2002, the National Archives Advisory Committee and the Humanities Panel of the Marsden Fund. She was the inaugural chair of the New Zealand History Research Trust Fund (1990-1994) and President of the New Zealand Historical Association (1996). She has been a Guardian of the Alexander Turnbull Library since 2009.  In 2004, Professor Dalziel was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to education. 

Since 2008, Professor Dalziel has chaired the board of Starpath, a Partnership for Excellence between the University and the Government that aims to identify and assist in removing barriers to educational progression. Professor Dalziel’s historical research has focussed on on nineteenth-century New Zealand and British history, and she has published extensively on women’s suffrage and women in history. In 2010, she received a University of Auckland Excellence in Equity award for the sustained excellence of her commitment and activities in the promotion of gender equity.

Roberta Hill is a Director of WEB Research and has 22 years’ research and management experience. Her recent projects include a series of policy evaluation projects for the New Zealand Department of Labour, and sub contracted social science components of Foundation for Research, Science and Technology projects led by a number of Crown Research Institutes. She is currently leading a major evaluation contract of the Performance Based Research Fund in New Zealand tertiary education institutions, and a contract to develop a major cross departmental project concerned with the effects of government regulation on small and medium sized businesses.  She specialises in qualitative research methods and analysis, and has extensive experience in the New Zealand science environment.  Dr Hill is an accredited Academic Auditor, an honorary lecturer at Lincoln University, has been a guest lecturer at the Universities of Otago and Canterbury, Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University, and was involved in the establishment of the CRIs as Convenor of the Establishment Unit for Crown Research Institute for Social Research and Development.

Gareth Jones is Director of the Bioethics Centre and Professor of Anatomy at the University of Otago, where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International) from 2005-2009. He was Head of the Anatomy Department from 1983-2003. He is a neuroscientist and bioethicist, and has written extensively in both areas. He also has considerable interests in educational and ethical issues in anatomy, and is currently chair of the Commission on Ethics and Medical Humanities of the International Federation of Associations of Anatomists. One of his recent books, Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine (Ashgate, 2nd edition, 2009) encapsulates many of these interests. Professor Jones has been intimately involved in Otago’s extensive review processes. He has been a Chair and member of a number of academic audits administered by the Unit as well as the Australian Universities Quality Agency.  He also served on the panel for the Massey University audit – the first audit for Cycle 4.

David Mackay has been the Chair of the Board of NZUAAU since February 2009.  He was formerly Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University of Wellington. David had been Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. While at Victoria, David convened reviews of his University’s Personnel Section, the Centre for Strategic Studies and Pacific Studies Unit, and he reviewed the functioning and terms of reference of the University’s Academic Board. In 2006, he was Chair of the panel that conducted the Unit’s Cycle 3 academic audit of Lincoln University.

Graeme McNally is an Independent Consultant and a former strategy, operations and finance partner with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu in New Zealand.  Prior to joining Deloitte in 1987 he had been Dean of Faculty of Commerce and a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of Canterbury.  He has worked on a wide range of advisory projects for tertiary education institutions and for the Ministry of Education and Tertiary Education Commission in New Zealand and was responsible for the Deloitte tertiary education industry group.  Graeme is currently Chair of the Tai Poutini Polytechnic Council. 

Hirini Matunga is Assistant Vice Chancellor (Maori and Pacifica) at Lincoln University.    Previously, he was Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development.  Professor Matunga has professional training and practice as a Town Planner and has over 25 years experience as a planner/policy analyst specialising in issues that affect Maori communities.  His teaching and research interests are in Maori and indigenous approaches to planning, policy analysis and development. Professor Matunga is a member of a number of Committees including: Te Kahui Amokura (the Maori Advisory Committee to the NZVCC), and the Executive Board of Te Tapuae o Rehua Ltd (A South Island Tertiary partnership between Ngai Tahu and various tertiary institutions – including the three universities).  He also acted as an advisor to the NZUAAU in its development of Te Tiriti o Waitangi audit framework for New Zealand Universities.

Margaret Mutu is Head of Department of Maori Studies at University of Auckland. Her teaching and research interests are in Maori language, Treaty of Waitangi issues, Maori and Polynesian linguistics, translation studies, Maori resource management and conservation practices. Maori customary fisheries, the rating of Maori land, the relationship between Maori and the Crown and claims to the Waitangi Tribunal.  Professor Mutu has served on many committees and boards including NZQA degrees assessment panels and academic audits for the NZUAAU.  She is also chair of her iwi authority, Te Rūnanga-ā-Iwi o Ngati Kahu, based in Kaitaia and her marae, Kāpehu in the Northern Wairoa, and Karikari in the Far North.

Dr Nates is Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at AUT University. He has been involved in developing a range of degree programs at AUT University since 1996, including BE, BET, ME and PhD.  He is also involved with research groups at AUT university to perform and deliver high quality research, development and consulting in the fields of thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics.  Prior to AUT, Dr Nates worked for 13 years at the University of Cape Town and 3 years at the University of Pretoria as a Senior Lecturer and received a distinguished Teacher's Award from the University of Cape Town in 1994.

Jan Roodt is International Market Development manager at the Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec) in Hamilton. He was until recently Director Quality and Academic at this organisation and have served in a variety of roles relating to academic management, quality assurance and risk management at Wintec. A History DPhil graduate from the University of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Jan came to New Zealand in 1995 after nearly eight years as a Research Officer in his university.

Dr Roodt has been involved in a number of internal and external academic audits under the auspices of ITPQuality. He is an external evaluator for NZQA and is also a national evaluator for the New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation.

Grant Sinclair is the former Managing Director of Scales Corporation, a public (unlisted) company dating back some 100 years involved in agribusiness sectors.  Dr Sinclair graduated from the University of Canterbury and has been director of a number of companies and organisations, such as Wood Research Organisation of New Zealand, Annett and Darling, New Zealand Wool Testing Authority, New Zealand Wool Services International, Ferrier Wool Scours.