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Staff Members
Professor Peggy Koopman-Boyden CNZM
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Professorial Research Associate |
| Qualifications: |
BA, MA, Dip Ed Massey |
| Email: |
pkb@waikato.ac.nz |
| Location: |
K3.02 |
| Contact: |
+64 7 858 5040 |
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Research Interests:
Professor Koopman-Boyden is currently Professor of Social Gerontology, in the Population Studies Centre, working part-time on the FRST-funded research programme Enhancing Wellbeing in an Ageing Society (EWAS). As a sociologist she 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.
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).
Research Publications:
You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Professor Peggy Koopman-Boyden CNZM
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