Our people

Director
Professor Marek Tesar

Core Faculty research team
Dr Kiri Gould, LDPP
Dr Deborah Widdowson, LDPP
Dr Angel Chan, LDPP
Ms Jennifer Boyd, LDPP
Dr Andrew Madjar, LDPP
Mrs Jeanne Teisina, LDPP
Dr Barb O'Loughlin, LDPP
Ms Reney Kahui, LDPP

Kaitohutohu / Advisor
Associate Professor Te Kawehau Hoskins, Ihonuku /Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori

University of Auckland Advisory Group and Associated Researchers
Associate Professor Paola Boarin, Architecture, CAI, Director of Future Cities Research Hub
Professor Susanna Trnka, Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, Director of Pandemic Hub
Professor Ralph Buck, Dance Studies / Arts, CAI
Professor Robin Kearns, School of Environment, Child and Young people human geographer
Professor Sebastian Link, Faculty of Science, Founding Director of Data Science programmes
Dr Charlotte Bennett, Faculty of Law/ Faculty of Arts, History of Childhood
Professor Partha Roop, Faculty of Engineering
Professor Nicholas Rowe, Dance Studies, Faculty of Creative Arts and
Industries
Dr Peter Zamborsky, University of Auckland Business School
Dr Katherine Doolin, Faculty of Law  
Samuel Mehr, Psychology, Faculty of Science

International Advisory Group
Professor Mathias Urban, Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education Research Centre, DCU
Professor Nicola Yelland, Director of Global Childhoods and Early Years Cognate, University of Melbourne
Professor Anette Hellman, Director of Global Childhoods Research Centre, University of Gothenburg
Professor Vina Adriany, Director of Gender and Childhoods Research Centre, UPI
Professor Marianna Souto-Manning, Director of Early Years, Teachers College, Columbia University
Dr Louise Penfold, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Associate Professor Sonja Arndt, Early Childhood Education, University
of Melbourne
Professor Andrew Gibbons, Faculty of Culture and Society, AUT University
Anandini Dar, BML Munjal University

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