Sandra Morrison
{{Short description|Professor in New Zealand, working on climate change, adult education and indigenous development}}
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Sandra Lee Morrison is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in researching and advocating for adult education for diverse populations across the Asia Pacific region.
Early life and education
Morrison affiliates with Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rarua, and Te Arawa iwi. As a child Morrison took part in performances of Māori singing and dancing for tourists, with her family, but did not enjoy it and preferred reading books, which she says got her 'hooked on learning'. She was the first in her family to graduate from university, and saw a 'ripple effect' through the family as they realised education was a route into better job opportunities. Morrison obtained a master's degree in 2002 of Māori and Pacific Development from the University of Waikato.{{cite web |title=Sandra Morrison |date=3 February 2019 |url=https://theconversation.com/profiles/sandra-morrison-682872 |publisher=The Conversation |access-date=20 January 2024}}
Academic career
Morrison is on the faculty of the University of Waikato, where she was appointed as a full professor in 2022.{{Cite web |last=University of Waikato News |date=22 July 2022 |title=Three new professors announced |url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2022/three-new-professors-announced |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=University of Waikato}}
Morrison served from 2004 to 2008 as President of the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education. From 2008 she was elected President of the International Council for Adult Education.{{Cite web |last=Firth |first=Georgia |date=26 March 2018 |title=New head for International Council for Adult Education |url=https://ala.asn.au/new-head-for-international-council-for-adult-education/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Adult Learning Australia |language=en-US}} Morrison said her goals for her four-year term were to "reaffirm and strengthen that access to good quality education is a human right" and "to achieve greater recognition of the importance of education in sustainable development and this means taking into consideration the rights of women and those vulnerable groups. For example, the number of illiterate people is still unacceptable." Morrison co-founded the Indigenous, Maori and Pacific Adult Education Charitable Trust (IMPAECT) to develop cultural diverse approaches to education.{{Cite web |title=Sandra Lee Morrison |url=https://halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/Inductions/Inductee-Details/sandra-lee-morrison |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Waikato University |date=12 February 2004 |title=Sharing Education Knowledge |url=https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0402/S00027/sharing-education-knowledge.htm |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=Scoop news}}{{Cite web |date=24 March 2014 |title=About |url=https://impaect.wordpress.com/about/ |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=IMPAECT |language=en}}
Morrison is part of the Deep South National Science Challenge, where she leads work on iwi relationships with the Southern and Antarctic oceans, Te Tai Uka a Pia, and leads the Vision Mātauranga work.{{Cite web |title=Deep South National Science Challenge to fund 14 kaupapa Māori climate adaptation research projects |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/deep-south-challenge-to-fund-14-kaupapa-m/ |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}{{Cite web |date=25 November 2020 |title=Priya Kurian, Debashish Munshi, Sandy Morrison {{!}} Deep South Challenge |url=https://deepsouthchallenge.co.nz/adaptation-champion/priya-kurian-debashish-munshi-sandy-morrison/ |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=Deep South Challenge {{!}} Climate Change Tools & Information}} She has written about the importance of the Treaty of Waitangi, and about iwi attitudes to climate change.{{Citation |last=Morrison |first=Sandy |title=Associate Professor Sandy Morrison, Vision Mātauranga Programme Lead, Deep South Challenge; and Head of Māori and Indigenous Studies, Waikato University |date=1 March 2022 |work=Indigenous knowledge and climate adaptation – Expert Reaction |pages= |url=https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2022/03/01/indigenous-knowledge-and-climate-adaptation-expert-reaction/ |access-date=20 January 2024 |publisher= }}{{Cite web |last1=Morrison |first1=Sandra |first2=Ingrid |last2=Huygens |date=7 February 2019 |title=The significance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi |url=https://www.waikato.ac.nz/news-opinion/media/2019/the-significance-of-te-tiriti-o-waitangi |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=www.waikato.ac.nz |language=en-NZ}}{{Cite web |last1=Huygens |first1=Ingrid L. M. |last2=Morrison |first2=Sandra |date=5 February 2019 |title=Explainer: the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi |url=http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-significance-of-the-treaty-of-waitangi-110982 |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=The Conversation |language=en-US}}
Honours and awards
In 2009 Morrison was inducted into the University of Oklahoma’s International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame. In 2011, she won an Ako Aotearoa award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching.{{Cite web |last=Komako |title=Sandy Morrison (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Rārua, Te Arawa) |url=https://komako.org.nz/person/1592 |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=komako.org.nz}}{{Cite web |title=Sandra Lee Morrison |url=https://ako.ac.nz/programmes-and-services/te-whatu-kairangi/awardee-community/2011-tertiary-teaching-excellence-awardees/sandra-lee-morrison/ |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=ako.ac.nz |language=en-US}}
Selected works
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= Book =
- {{Cite book |last1=Morrison |first1=Sandra |title=Reading our land: Case study of Te Waka Pu Whenua, Maori Adult Education Centre in New Zealand |last2=Tarawa |first2=N |publisher=Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education |year=2003 |language=English}}{{Cite web |last=University of Waikato |title=Professor Sandy Morrison |url=https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/sandy.morrison/publications |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=profiles.waikato.ac.nz}}
= Articles =
- {{CiteQ|Q121168822}}
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- {{CiteQ|Q64054610|doi-access=free}}
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- {{Cite Q|Q124303385}}
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Category:New Zealand academics
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Category:Academic staff of the University of Waikato
Category:Ngāti Maniapoto people