Professor Peggy Koopman-Boyden CNZM
Social Gerontology
NIDEA Research Manager
Qualifications: BA MA DipEd Massey
Research Interests
As a sociologist Professor Koopman-Boyden has taught and undertaken research in the areas of social policy, demography and family sociology, but especially gerontology beginning in the 1970s with a publication setting out an Agenda for Research on the Elderly in New Zealand.
About Me
Peggy is currently Professor of Social Gerontology, in the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, working part-time on the FRST-funded research programme Enhancing Wellbeing in an Ageing Society (EWAS).As a member and Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Planning Council, Professor Koopman-Boyden was the inaugural Convenor of the Population Monitoring Group and Social Monitoring Group, and has been a member or chair of many other national strategic and research committees, including the Committee on Women, the Social Development Council, National Advisory Committee on HIV/Aids, Lottery Research Committee, and more latterly the Australian Health and Medical Research Council Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In the last decade, Professor Koopman-Boyden has been the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at The University of Waikato, as well as being the Project Director of the FRST-funded research programme, Mid-Life Family Transactions.
For a long time, Professor Koopman-Boyden has been involved in community organizations with respect to older people, including Aged Concern (Canterbury) and Alzheimers’ Society. She is currently the President of the Waikato Branch of the NZ Association of Gerontology, and Chair of the AgeWise strategic advisory group for the Waikato District Health Board. For her community service, she has been awarded a Life Membership of Aged Concern (Canterbury), the New Zealand 1990 Medal, and in 1997 the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM).
Expertise
Social gerontology: ageing; retirement; ageing policies; social policy; family studies.
Recent Publications
- Koopman-Boyden, P., Barrett, P. (2011) Do we have enough unpaid carers? Planning for a more caring society
Oral Presentation - AgeWISE Seminar - Koopman-Boyden, P. (2011) Older New Zealanders
Book Chapters - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - Koopman-Boyden, P., Barrett, P. (2011) Options for responding to the projected shortfall of carers in an ageing society
Conference - Oral Presentation - Population Association of New Zealand Conference (PANZ) - Waldegrave, C., Koopman-Boyden, P. (2010) The wellbeing of midlife New Zealanders - An overview
Book Chapters - Midlife New Zealanders Aged 40-64 in 2008: Enhancing Wellbeing in an Ageing Society
Contact Details
Email: pkb@waikato.ac.nzRoom: K3.02
Phone: +64 7 858 5040
Fax: +64 7 838 4621
