Rowena Cullen
{{Short description|New Zealand information scientist}}
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| birth_name = Rowena Joy Knight
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| thesis1_title = Assessing the Effectiveness of Information Services: an Evaluative Model
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Rowena Joy Cullen ({{Nee|Knight}}; born 1946) is a New Zealand information services academic, and is professor emerita at the Victoria University of Wellington. She has published on e-government in the Pacific and health information on the internet.
Academic career
Born in 1946,{{Cite web |title=Cullen, Rowena Joy 1946– |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22452561 |website=National Library of New Zealand}} Cullen was educated at Christchurch Girls' High School,{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19631214.2.222.3 |title=Christchurch G.H.S. |date=14 December 1963 |work=The Press |volume=102 |issue=30314 |page=24 |access-date=17 September 2024 |via=PapersPast}} and went on to study at the University of Canterbury where she completed a Master of Arts degree in English in 1968.{{Cite news |date=3 May 1968 |title=Two Graduation Ceremonies |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19680503.2.180 |work=Press |pages=14}} In 1968, she was awarded the Tytheridge travelling scholarship in arts.{{Cite news |date=24 July 1968 |title=University Scholarships |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19680724.2.141 |work=Press |pages=16}} She then completed a Master of Letters at the University of Edinburgh, returning to New Zealand to complete a Master of Arts in librarianship and a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW).{{Cite thesis|title=Management information and the use of management information systems in library and information services|type=MA thesis|last=Cullen|first=Rowena|url=https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/permalink/64VUW_INST/1ol91ac/alma99180170385902386|publisher= Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington|date=1990}}{{Cite thesis |title=Assessing the Effectiveness of Information Services: an Evaluative Model |last=Cullen |first=Rowena |type=PhD thesis |publisher=Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington |url=https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/permalink/64VUW_INST/k63216/alma99180170927202386 |date=2001}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/about/governance/university-publications/calendar |title=2024 Calendar |publisher=Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington |year=2024 |location=Wellington, New Zealand}} Cullen then joined the faculty of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.
Cullen was appointed emeritus professor of the university on her retirement. She is or has been on the editorial board of a number of journals, including as an associate editor for the Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal (LIBRES), and the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.{{Cite web |title=LIBRES: Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal |url=https://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/edoc/aw/libres/editors.html |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=webdoc.sub.gwdg.de}}{{Cite journal |date=26 August 2011 |title=Editorial Board EOV |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19331681.2011.611719 |journal=Journal of Information Technology & Politics |volume=8 |issue=4 |pages=464 |doi=10.1080/19331681.2011.611719 |issn=1933-1681|url-access=subscription }} Cullen co-chaired a session on "The Foundations of Innovation in Government Must Rest on Sound Policies, Governance Principles, Ethics, and Laws" at the 44th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences.{{Cite web |title=E-Policy, e-Governance, Ethics, and Law Minitrack |url=https://faculty.washington.edu/jscholl/hicss44/E-Policy,_e-Governance,_Ethics,_and_Law.html |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=faculty.washington.edu}}
Cullen has written or edited several books on e-government, and health information on the internet.{{Cite journal |date=2006-11-01 |title=Comparative Perspectives on E-government: Serving Today and Building for Tomorrow |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02640470610714279 |journal=The Electronic Library |volume=24 |issue=6 |pages=864–865 |doi=10.1108/02640470610714279 |issn=0264-0473|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |date=2007-04-17 |title=Health Information on the Internet: A Study of Providers, Quality, and Users |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14684520710747293 |journal=Online Information Review |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=246–248 |doi=10.1108/14684520710747293 |issn=1468-4527|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Twisselmann |first=Birte |date=2006-09-14 |title=Health Information on the Internet: A Study of Providers, Quality, and Users |url=https://www.bmj.com/content/333/7568/607.1 |journal=BMJ |language=en |volume=333 |issue=7568 |pages=607 |doi=10.1136/bmj.333.7568.607 |pmc=1570017 |issn=0959-8138}}{{Cite web |last=Government |first=Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Commerce School of |date=2020-12-03 |title=e-Government in the Pacific Islands {{!}} Te Kura Kāwanatanga / School of Government {{!}} Te Herenga Waka |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/sog/about/news/news-archives/2015-news/e-government-in-the-pacific-islands |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Victoria University of Wellington |language=en}}
Honours and awards
Cullen was elected a Fellow of LIANZA in 2007, and in 2012 was made an honorary life member.{{Cite web |title=LIANZA PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AWARD RECIPIENTS: LIANZA Fellows |url=https://www.lianza.org.nz/about/what-we-do/lianza-awards/professional-recognition-recipients/ |access-date=17 Sep 2024 |website=LIANZA}}{{Cite web |last=Management |first=Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Commerce School of Information |date=2023-03-16 |title=2010 news archive {{!}} Te Kura Tiaki, Whakawhiti Kōrero / School of Information Management {{!}} Te Herenga Waka |url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/sim/about/news/news-archives/2010 |access-date=2024-09-17 |website=Victoria University of Wellington |language=en}} In 2008, she received a VUW award for research excellence.
Personal life
Cullen's parents were John and Molly Knight. In 1967, she married Michael Cullen who would later become a member of parliament.{{cite book |title=Who's Who in New Zealand, 1991 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6x8OAQAAMAAJ |last1=Lambert |first1=Max |year=1991 |edition=12th |publisher=Octopus |location=Auckland|isbn = 9780790001302 |page=143 }} The couple had two daughters.{{Cite news |date=13 November 1987 |title=Second M. P. separates |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19871113.2.96 |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=The Press}} They separated in 1987 and divorced in 1989.{{Cite news |date=10 November 1987 |title=M.P. separates |url= https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19871110.2.75 |access-date=2024-09-16 |website=The Press}}
Selected works
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= Books =
- {{cite book|title=Comparative perspectives on e-government: serving today and building for tomorrow|editor-last=Hernon|editor-first=Peter|editor2-first=Rowena|editor2-last=Cullen|editor3-last=Relyea|editor3-first=Harold C.|publisher=Scarecrow Press|date=March 2006|isbn=978-0-8108-5357-7}}
- {{Cite book |last=Cullen |first=Rowena |title=Health information on the Internet: a study of providers, quality, and users |publisher=Praeger |year=2006 |location=Westport, Conn. |url=https://archive.org/details/healthinformatio0000cull}}
- {{Citation |editor-last=Cullen |editor-first=Rowena |chapter=E-Government in Pacific Island Countries |date=2017 |series=Public Administration and Information Technology |volume=27 |pages=3–32 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-50972-3_1 |isbn=978-3-319-50970-9 |editor2-last=Hassall |editor2-first=Graham |title=Achieving Sustainable E-Government in Pacific Island States |doi-access=free }}
= Journal =
- {{CiteQ|Q128811962}}
- {{CiteQ|Q34148527}}
- {{CiteQ|Q56765670}}
- {{CiteQ|Q50629235}}
- {{CiteQ|Q128811875}}
- {{CiteQ|Q50629235}}
- {{CiteQ|Q128811956}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Cullen |first1=Rowena |last2=Hassall |first2=Graham |chapter=An Information Ecology Approach to Sustainable E-Government among Small Island Developing States in the Pacific |date=January 2013 |title=2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |chapter-url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2013.86 |publisher=IEEE |volume=1 |pages=1922–1931 |doi=10.1109/hicss.2013.86|isbn=978-1-4673-5933-7 }}
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3R4a5rVh5c EBLIP4 Keynote UNC-Chapel Hill July 2007] Rowena Cullen, via YouTube
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcWkhohWoTs&t=21s Concepts of privacy in Japan and New Zealand], presentation by Rowena Cullen September 2018, via YouTube
- [https://canterburystories.nz/collections/archives/star/negatives/1971/ccl-cs-31680 Images of Rowena and Michael Cullen] from a newspaper article in 1971
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Category:People educated at Christchurch Girls' High School
Category:New Zealand academics
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Category:Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Category:University of Canterbury alumni