New Zealand
Faculty & Students
- 11 Western faculty members have received graduate degrees from a university in New Zealand
- In 2016-17, 7 Western students travelled on exchange to New Zealand and 12 students from New Zealand came to Western
Publications
Between 2012 and 2016, Western researchers co-authored and published 130 articles, abstracts, reviews, proceeding papers, editorial materials, or book chapters with New Zealand researchers at the following institutions:
- University of Auckland
- University of Otago
- Auckland University of Technology
- Auckland City Hospital
- Massey University
Partner Institutions
- The University of Auckland
- University of Otago
- Victoria University of Wellington
- University of Canterbury
Alumni
- 103 Western alumni are living in New Zealand
Other Connections
- Brent Sinclair, Associate Professor, Biology, is an Associate Editor of New Zealand Journal of Ecology
- New Zealand author, Eleanor Catton, was born in Canada while her father completed a doctorate at Western
- Western Professor Emeritus, Russell Poole, was named Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of Humanities in 2008
- Duncan Steel, New Zealand Space Scientist, Author and Broadcaster was a visiting research scholar in summer 2014 at Western’s Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration
- Professor Paul Rishworth of the University of Auckland, taught a course at Western’s Faculty of Law in January 2015
- The late William Fyfe, long-time faculty member and past Dean of Science at Western, was born in New Zealand and was a graduate of the University of Otago