Auditor

Dr Alison Campbell recently retired from her roles as Associate Dean (Teaching & Learning) for Science & Engineering, & Senior Lecturer (Biology), at the University of Waikato. Alison has extensive governance and QA experience from her membership of the University Council and her lengthy involvement in the University's Curriculum and Education Committees. Alison is a member of the Ako Aotearoa Academy, a registered teacher, and an experienced science communicator. 

Professor Elizabeth Deane has held a number of academic leadership and management positions in Australian universities, including as Foundation Head of Department, Foundation Head of School (University of Western Sydney 1989 – 2000), Dean of Faculty (Macquarie University 2000 – 2008) and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Australian National University 2008 – 2012). She currently has occupies a strategic and operational leadership role with responsibility for learning and teaching at the University of Western Sydney.

Elizabeth has, with national competitively-awarded funds, developed innovative approaches to learning and teaching as well as undertaken reports on innovations in teaching the sciences. She led the ANU’s participation in the National Teaching Standards Framework Project and the allied Moderators project. She was also a lead partner in the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT)'s project 'Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education' and currently leads an OLT funded project on student leadership in curriculum reform with five partner universities and the Australian National Union of Students.

Elizabeth is a QAA Scotland international auditor (2009 – present, 4 reviews to date), was trained as an Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) auditor and has undertaken a number of reviews of learning and teaching units in Australian Universities. She was part of Australian government funded collaboration with South Korea which reviewed and compared higher education quality assurance processes in the two countries. In her previous role at ANU she was responsible for ANU’s preparation for AUQA review and then for TEQSA re-registration. She played an active part in the national conversation around the new Australian Qualifications Framework and was a member of the AQF Implementation Advisory Group. Elizabeth is a current member of the TEQSA Register of Experts.

Fiona Coote is the Manager of the Office of Academic Assurance at Massey University where she has worked for 28 years in administrative roles in two Colleges, the Sport and Rugby Institute and the central University.  She has served on numerous committees and is currently a member of the Academic Board, Academic Committee, Teaching and Learning Committee, Job Evaluation Committee and Deputy Chair of the Academic Integrity Committee. She has worked in in academic policy writing and qualification reviews since 2003 and undertook Auditor Training in 2011.

Darryn Russell is the Assistant Vice-Chancellor Māori at the University of Canterbury. Mr Russell started his working life with the Inland Revenue Department, through the then Department of Māori Affairs, and was later appointed the Māori Community Officer with the Department. He then took up a position with the Department of Internal Affairs and just prior to settlement with the Crown, accepted a Regional leadership and development position with Ngāi Tahu.  

Darryn has always had a focus on Ngāi Tahu and Rūnanga development. With this background he held the position of Director, Māori Development at the University of Otago for several years. Darryn's current position as Assistant Vice-Chancellor Māori has responsibility for developing and maintaining University Treaty-based relationships with Iwi and Māori providers, and coordinating and implementing the Strategy for Māori Development at the University of Canterbury. The Assistant Vice-Chancellor Māori also leads his Executive Team and the Māori Development Team is also part of his portfolio.

Professor Lindsey Conner is currently the Director of the College of Education's Science & Technology Education Research Hub at the University of Canterbury. Lindsey's experience as a university academic involves teaching in initial teacher education programmes and researching in teacher education, innovative pedagogies, futures education and systems approaches to education reform. Her research is on the integration and pedagogy associated with the use of technology, as well as related fields of science education and educational leadership, and she has presented widely internationally about the integration of reflective learning as an evaluative constructivist process. She has also had roles in advising on curriculum development for Samoa, South Australia and Japan.

As a staff member of the University of Canterbury, Lindsey has held roles as Associate Dean (Secondary Programmes), Chair of the College of Education Research committee, International Director for the College of Education, and as Chair of the College of Education Teaching and Learning Committee. She undertook the role of delegated Dean, as Chair of the Faculty of Education and Board of Studies for three years and served on the UC Academic Board and Academic Administration Committee during this time. Lindsey was Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor, College of Education from 2010-2012. Lindsey served as Chair of the review of University of Canterbury MBA degree. She has been involved with many internal reviews, and oversaw the successful 2010 reaccreditation process for all of the College of Education’s qualifications with the New Zealand Teachers’ Council.

Dr David Mackay is an Emeritus Professor at Victoria University of Wellington, specialising in the history of imperial expansion and colonial Australia. From 1995-2003 he was Dean of Arts/Humanities and Social Sciences, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2003 to 2009.  In 2010 he was Acting Dean of Architecture and Design at Victoria. In 2009 he was Chair of the New Zealand Universities Academic Audit Unit (Now AQA). He has chaired a review of Lincoln University, the Polytechnic of Namibia and been a panel member of reviews of the University of the South Pacific, University of Samoa and the translation programmes at the Macao Polytechnic Institute.

Gordon Suddaby was Director of Academic Development and eLearning at Massey University for 10 years and Associate Professor, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Massey's National Centre for Teaching and Learning (2011 - 2012). In his role at Massey, he promoted and fostered research and scholarship into teaching and learning across the University. He developed and taught into Massey's post graduate certificate in tertiary teaching. He also managed the team of flexible learning and teaching consultants responsible for Massey's open source learning management system, Moodle.

The focus of Gordon's research and project work is on teaching and learning, factors affecting student learning outcomes, academic development, elearning distance education, and teaching and learning quality. Gordon is a member of the NZ Ministry of Education's tertiary eLearning reference group and is in his second term as the president of the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and eLearning (ACODE). He is an executive member of the Higher Education Research Development Society of New Zealand (HERDSANZ) and the Distance Education Association of New Zealand (DEANZ). Gordon led the successful Massey bid to host NZ's National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, Ako Aotearoa, and still has a significant role with that organisation. In addition to being an auditor for AQA, Gordon has been appointed as an Enhancement-Led Institutional Reviewer for the United Kingdom Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland), and is a member of the Australian Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Authority (TEQSA) ‘Experts’ panel. Gordon has undertaken reviews in Australia and was an auditor for the former New Zealand Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics Quality organisation (ITPQ) for 5 years, undertaking a number of degree accreditations during that time.