Environment, Society & Design staff

Dean and Committee Chairs

Name	Position
Greg Ryan Associate Professor in History	Dean
Geoff Kerr Associate Professer in Environmental Economics	Faculty Teaching Committee
Roy Montgomery Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management	Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee
Crile Doscher Senior Lecturer in GIS	Faculty Research Committee
Simon Swaffield Professor of Landscape Architecture	Strategic Development Committee

Administration

Name	Position
Douglas Broughton	Faculty Postgraduate Administrator
Jaimee Cairns	Secretary (Department of Environmental Management)
Michelle Collings	Secretary (Department of Applied Computing/Department of Social Science, Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Sport)
Alyson Gardner	Faculty Financial Administrator
Shona Mardle	Secretary (School of Landscape Architecture)
Pat Quarles	Personal Assistant to the Dean
Tracey Shields	Postgraduate Administrator (Department of Environmental Management) and Research Secretary
Health and Safety representatives
Shona Mardle	Landscape Architecture Building
Roy Montgomery	John Burton Building
Tracey Shields	Natural Resources Engineering Building

Department of Applied Computing

Name & position*	Research expertise
Clare Churcher Head of Department, Senior Lecturer	Data management, databases, user interfaces
Walter Abell Senior Lecturer	Multimedia applications, networks, operating systems
Mark Anderson Technical Tutor
Stuart Charters Lecturer	Visualisation, Software Engineering, Grid Computing
Mohammad Daradkeh Tutor	Tutor in Software and Information Technology
Shirley Gibbs Lecturer	End-user computing, computing education, computer literacy
Sharon Long Senior Tutor
Keith Unsworth Senior Lecturer	Modelling, visualisation, complex systems

Department of Environmental Management

Name & position	Research expertise
Ton Buhrs Head of Department, Associate Professor	Environmental policy: comparative, institutional and international
Ronlyn Duncan Lecturer in Water Management	Collaborative water policy and management, knowledge governance, public understanding of science, environmental impact assessment
Crile Doscher Senior Lecturer in GIS	Engineering, hydrology, computer modelling, GIS
Warwick Hill Technician
Ken Hughey Professor	Environmental management, environmental perceptions monitoring, species management
Geoff Kerr Associate Professor	Environmental economics, alternative resource management approaches
Ali Memon Professor	Environmental planning, sustainability and development
Magdy Mohssen Lecturer	Engineering, hydrology, modelling
Roy Montgomery Senior Lecturer	Environmental policy and planning, theory, history, process
Kelvin Nicolle Senior Tutor
Shannon Page Lecturer
Hamish Rennie Senior Lecturer	Common property governance, coastal marine and fisheries planning, marine tourism, environmental impact assessment
Lin Roberts Adjunct Senior Lecturer	Sustainable enterprises, environmental policy and management systems
Sandhya Samarasinghe Associate Professor	Computing in natural engineering and materials testing
Ian Spellerberg Professor	Nature conservation, ecology, environmental education
Glenn Stewart Associate Professor of Urban Ecology	Forest dynamics, urban ecology, conservation biology
Jean-Paul Thull Senior Lecturer	Urban transport, waste management, ecological engineering
Suzanne Vallance Lecturer in Human Geography	Human geography, limited utility of the concept of sustainability in social, economic and ecological terms, the problematic rural/urban society/environment.

School of Landscape Architecture

Name & position*	Research expertise
Neil Challenger Lecturer	Landscape design, community, rural, Maori
Mike Barthelmeh Senior Lecturer	Landscape design, professional practice
Jacky Bowring Head of School, Associate Professor	Landscape design, theory critique, representation
Shannon Davis Lecturer	Landscape sustainability and structure planning
Senior Lecturer	Landscape architecture, history, culture, ideas
Bianca Van Rangelrooy Lecturer	Landscape
Simon Swaffield Professor	Landscape theory, perception, policy and sustainability

Department of Social Science, Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Sport

Name & position*	Research expertise
Susanne Becken Associate Professor	Tourism
Ann Brower Lecturer	Politics, policy and administration of publicly owned natural resources
Grant Cushman Professor of Parks, Recreation and Tourism	Leisure behaviour, leisure participation research, leisure policy
Pat Devlin Reader in Parks (Emeritus)	Outdoor recreation areas management, nature conservation
Stephen Espiner Senior Lecturer in Park and Recreation Management	Tourism and recreation in protected natural areas, safety and risk
David Fisher Senior Lecturer in Tourism	Tourism: heritage, environmental and socio-economic impacts
Joanna Fountain Senior Lecturer	Tourism: wine tourism, cultural heritage, Generation Y
Bob Gidlow Associate Professor	Sociology: leisure, social policy, social theory
Mike Hamlin Associate Professor in Physiology & Sport Science	Physiology, athletic performance, exercise promotion
Chris Hutchinson Lecturer	Sport and leisure management and participation
Simon Lambert Lecturer	Maori environmental planning and development
Sally McKean Lecturer in Maori Studies	Indigenous development, culture, language
Kevin Moore Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Tourism	Psychology: theoretical approaches, psychology of tourism
Harvey Perkins Professor of Human Geography	Urban and regional geography, geographies of recreation and tourism
Associate Professor	Physical activity, participation and promotion. Sport and Recreation Management
Greg Ryan Dean, Associate Professor	Social and cultural history
Michael Shone Lecture in Tourism and Recreation	Tourism and recreation
David Simmons Professor of Tourism	Tourism: planning, impacts and ecotourism
Gary Steel Senior Lecturer in Psychology	Psychology of extreme environments, personal relationships, trauma
Emma Stewart Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Parks	Tourism geographies, nature-based tourism, polar tourism, community-based research
Grant Tavinor Lecturer in Philosophy	Philosophy of fiction, mind and art, philosophy of science