Sonja Macfarlane
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| thesis_title = In Pursuit of Culturally Responsive Evidence Based Special Education Pathways in Aotearoa New Zealand: Whaia ki te ara tika
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Sonja Lee Macfarlane {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|FRSNZ}} ({{Nee|Bateman}}) is a New Zealand education academic and an associate professor at the University of Canterbury. Macfarlane specialises in the development of cultural awareness in the New Zealand education system.
Academic career
After a PhD titled In Pursuit of Culturally Responsive Evidence Based Special Education Pathways in Aotearoa New Zealand: Whaia ki te ara tika at the University of Canterbury completed in 2012,{{cite thesis |last=Macfarlane |first=Sonja |year=2012 |type=Doctoral thesis |title=In Pursuit of Culturally Responsive Evidence Based Special Education Pathways in Aotearoa New Zealand: Whaia ki te ara tika |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/7177 |doi=10.26021/10046 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/7177}} Macfarlane moved to Te Kura o te Mātauranga Institute of Education at Massey University, and then to the University of Canterbury, rising to associate professor.{{Cite web |title=Sonja Macfarlane |url=https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/science/contact-us/people/sonja-macfarlane.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230325142016/https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/science/contact-us/people/sonja-macfarlane.html |archive-date=25 March 2023 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=The University of Canterbury |language=en-nz}}{{Cite web |title=UC Research Profile - University of Canterbury - New Zealand |url=https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/researcher.aspx?researcherid=4427456 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921095259/https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=4427456 |archive-date=21 Sep 2023 |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=The University of Canterbury |language=en-nz}}
Awards
In 2021 Macfarlane was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.{{Cite web |title=Researchers and scholars at the top of their fields elected as Fellows |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/researchers-and-scholars-at-the-top-of-their-fields-elected-as-fellows-2021/ |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}} Her nomination said "Sonja has played a key role in the advancement of alternative ways for educators and psychologists to improve cultural awareness and responsivity, leading to the implementation of practices that accrue benefits for Māori learners (education) and clients (psychology). Her culturally-grounded publications and applied practice models in these disciplines have established her as an authority on the ways professionals can engage authentically within their professional spaces." Also in 2021, Macfarlane was awarded the Dame Marie Clay Award by the New Zealand Psychological Society.{{Cite web |title=Current Award Recipients :: NZ Psychological Society |url=https://www.psychology.org.nz/members/supporting-our-members/awardsfellowship/current-award-recipients |access-date=2024-05-03 |website=www.psychology.org.nz}}
Personal life
Macfarlane is affiliated with Ngāi Tahu and Ngāti Waewae iwi. Her husband Angus Hikairo Macfarlane is professor of Māori research at the University of Canterbury.{{Cite web |title=Te Maori: Medal for Professor Angus Hikairo Macfarlane |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/rotorua-daily-post/news/te-maori-medal-for-professor-angus-hikairo-macfarlane/SIILQF42LTLEM5K7BRWEC5XSWQ/ |access-date=2022-11-19 |website=NZ Herald |language=en-NZ}}
Selected works
- {{Cite Q|Q36371500|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite Q|Q58095556|doi-access=free}}
- {{Cite Q|Q92074393}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115291508}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115291505}}
- {{Cite Q|Q115291517}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/new-fellow-seminars/2021-new-fellow-seminars/2021-associate-professor-sonja-macfarlane-frnz-2/ Haegenga o te kitenga] (Macfarlane's new fellows seminar at the Royal Society Te Apārangi)
- [https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/researcher.aspx?researcherid=4427456 University profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204203646/https://researchprofile.canterbury.ac.nz/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=4427456 |date=4 February 2020 }}
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Category:New Zealand academics
Category:New Zealand women academics
Category:Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand