What is the Academic Network?
The Academic Network is a cluster of experts available to provide advice and assistance on a range of academic matters.
These include:
- Academic administration advice for programmes in the Division of Health Sciences
- Alignment with strategic direction of the Division
- Amendment of regulations
- Amendments to title of existing paper, prescriptions, prerequisites, restrictions or point values; teaching period or teaching mode of a paper; deletion of a paper; reinstatement of a suspended paper
- Assistance with postgraduate procedures
- Delegated PVC approval for PhD student administration
- Delegated approval for PVC variation clause of programme regulations
- Delegated PVC approval for non standard academic admissions
- Development of new programmes (i.e. new degrees or major subjects or endorsements or minor subjects (where no existing major subject); deletion of such programmes
- Development of new papers including special topic and summer school papers
- Sustainability assessment of new programmes and new papers
The Academic Network is led by:
- Professor Lois SurgenorDivisional Associate Dean (Academic)
- Professor Alison RichDivisional Associate Dean (Postgraduate)
Academic Network structure
The Academic Network has three layers:
- Divisional
- Campus
- Faculty / school
Key contacts in each layer of the Academic Network
- Divisional contacts
- Professor Lois Surgenor Divisional Associate Dean (Academic)
- Professor Alison Rich Divisional Associate Dean (Postgraduate)
- Associate Professor Jo Baxter Divisional Associate Dean (Māori)
- Professor Tai Sopoaga Divisional Associate Dean (Pacific)
- Nicola Hoodless Manager of Admissions
- Campus contacts
- Christchurch
- Professor Marie Crowe Associate Dean Postgraduate
- Dunedin
- Bruce Smith Medicine, School Manager
- Jacqui Bradshaw Medicine, Administrator and PA to the School Manager
- Jazmin Collins (BMS Admin), School of Biomedical Sciences
- Kaye Jeffries Pharmacy, Manager, Administration and Finance
- Trish Didham Physiotherapy, Operations Manager
- Wellington
- Dr William Levack Associate Dean (Research)
- Trevor Williams Postgraduate Liaison Officer
- Christchurch
How can the Academic Network help?
The Academic Network is available to provide advice and assistance on any academic issue small or large.
- Divisional
- Advice on non-standard admissions
- Advice on programme regulations
- Advice/support for devolved responsibilities
- Consultation requirements
- Divisional Pacific Strategic Plan
- Division-wide postgraduate procedures
- External approval process (CUAP)
- Funding
- Internal approval processes (BUGS/BoGS)
- Māori teaching, research, and development
- Process mapping
- PVC variation clause of regulations
- Support for completing BUGS/BoGS forms
- Support for seeking Divisional approvals
- Sustainability assessment
- University and Divisional strategy
- University/programmes regulations
- Quality control
- Campus
- Advice / support for devolved responsibilities
- Campus Strategy
- Communication across schools
- Consultation requirements
- Funding
- Programmes Regulations
- Regulations advice
- Faculty/school
- Examinations processes
- Faculty / school strategy
- Funding
- Research proposals
- Standard admissions decisions
- Student matters
- Sustainability Assessment
- Department
- Faculty / school strategy
- Funding
- Standard admissions decisions
- Student administration
Key University contacts
- Dr Sarah Stein Director, Distance Learning