Robin Peace
{{short description|New Zealander social scientist}}
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| fields = Social science
| workplaces = Massey University
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| alma_mater = University of Waikato
| thesis_title = Surface tension: Place/poverty/policy: From "poverty" to "social exclusion": Implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999
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Robin Peace {{post-nominals|country=NZL|size=100%|CRSNZ}} is a social scientist from New Zealand. In 2018 she was appointed a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi for her contribution to the promotion and advancement of the social sciences in New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1807/S00029/six-women-recognised-for-leadership-in-science.htm|title=Six women recognised for leadership in science {{!}} Scoop News|website=www.scoop.co.nz|access-date=2018-11-25}}
Life
Peace completed a PhD at the University of Waikato in 1999, titled Surface tension: Place/poverty/policy: From "poverty" to "social exclusion": Implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999.{{cite thesis |last=Peace |first=Robin |year=1999 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Surface tension: Place/poverty/policy: From "poverty" to "social exclusion": Implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999 |publisher=Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato |hdl=10289/12141 |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/12141}}
In 2006 Peace joined Massey University's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the director of eSocSci, Hui Rangahou Tahi, New Zealand's national e-network of social scientists. She is a leader for the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association, which educates evaluators.{{Cite news|url=http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=DF36DADC-11EC-4AAB-9B4E-44E65EBACF21|title=Leading social scientist made Companion of Royal Society|publisher=Massey University|date=19 July 2018|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en}} Notable students include Lynda Johnston.{{cite thesis |last=Johnston |first=Lynda |year=1998 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=Body Tourism in Queered Streets: Geographies of gay pride parades |publisher=Waikato Research Commons, University of Waikato |hdl=10289/9780 |url=https://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/9780}}
Peace has served on a number of committees concerned with the social sciences, including the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, the Marsden Fund's Social Sciences Panel, the Rutherford Discovery Fellowship panel, and has represented the Royal Society Te Apārangi on the International Social Science Council, and the working group that developed the International Science Council.
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Category:Women social scientists
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