New Deputy Vice-Chancellor For UoA

Media release
26 June 2009

University of Auckland appoints new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

Professor John Morrow has been appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at The University of Auckland.

He will step down as Dean of the Faculty of Arts, will replace Professor Raewyn Dalziel, who has been in the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor since 1999.

As Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), Professor Morrow will have responsibility for the academic affairs of the University. He will be a member of the Senior Management Team and will deputise for the Vice-Chancellor in his absence. Professor Morrow will manage a number of University units including the Library, Planning and Quality Office, Centre for Academic Development, foundation programmes, Auckland University Press, Centre for Continuing Education and the University’s programmes at the Manukau Institute of Technology.

The new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) will also chair a number of committees including Education, Academic Programmes Committee, Teaching and Learning Quality, Schools Liaison, Staff Professional Development and the Library Committee. He will sit on the University's Academic Staffing Committee, the Staff Advisory Committee, Budget Committee, the Capital Planning and Budgeting Committee, and the Board of Graduate Studies. He will also be a member, and sometimes Chair, of the joint boards that the University has established with the Auckland University of Technology and the Manukau Institute of Technology.

“The University of Auckland has a strong commitment to maximising the learning opportunities of our students by encouraging innovations in teaching, giving priority to the development of our academic staff and creating an intellectual and physical environment which is conducive to learning and student achievement of our undergraduate and postgraduate students. I very much look forward to working with my colleagues across the University in pursuit of these objectives,” says Professor Morrow.

Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon said that Professor Dalziel had been outstanding in the role of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) for the past decade.

“Having worked with John Morrow in two senior University roles, I am confident that he will continue Professor Dalziel’s tradition of high quality, dedicated academic leadership”, he said.

Professor Morrow holds a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts with first class honours from the University of Canterbury and a PhD from York University, Toronto. Formerly Professor of Political Theory in the School of History, Politics and Philosophy, and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Victoria University of Wellington, John Morrow was appointed Professor of Political Studies at The University of Auckland in 2002 and Dean of Arts in 2003.

Professor Morrow has taught and undertaken supervision in political theory and in the history of political thought. His research has focused primarily on 19th century British and European political thought, with a recent emphasis on the relationship between romanticism and political ideas. He has published on this area and on aspects of 19th century liberalism, and regularly reviews articles and books for international scholarly journals and academic publishers and grant applications for international funding agencies. He has been a Bye Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, a visiting Lecture in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge, Guest Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at the Folger Centre for the Study of British Political Thought, Washington, DC, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Morrow will take up his new role in July. Professor Dalziel will return to the University’s Department of History.

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