Fellows  
 

-Dunedin residents- 

Ruth Campbell

Ruth Campbell was an active Member of the College Council for many years. In recognition of her service the College renamed Leith Cottage as Campbell Cottage. This cottage was demolished to make way for Wilson Wing.

In 1999, Ruth Campbell was named as a Fellow of the College.

 

Professor Colin Campbell-Hunt

Colin is Professor of Management at the University of Otago. He has also been Visiting Professor of Management at the University of St Andrews. He teaches strategic management and his research focuses on competitive advantage. Professor Campbell-Hunt also spent his first Otago year as a resident of St Margaret's College.

Colin has devoted a long research career to studying New Zealand business development. His work has looked at the New Zealand business cycle; determinants of industry-level productivity; strategic responses of firms to the reforms of the mid-1980's; and generic competitive strategies. In enterprise, both published by the New Zealand Institute for Economic Research: ‘Islands of Excellence?’ and ‘A Season of Excellence?’ Colin currently leads a large multi-disciplinary study, Competitive Advantage New Zealand - CANZ, which is funded by the Public Good Science Fund. The project investigates the evolution of competitive capability in a group of outstanding New Zealand firms. A book, "Worked Famous in New Zealand" on this work was published in June 2001. His work is published in New Zealand journals, and in the European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Operations Management, and the Strategic Management Journal.

Professor Campbell-Hunt was named a Fellow of the College in 2002.

 

Professor Hilary Radner

Professor Hilary Radner is the Foundation Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago. She spent her first year as a student at St Margaret's College.

She completed her Ph.D in Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas, Austin and holds a BA and MA from the University of California at Berkeley.

She is the author of Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure (1995) and co-editor of film Theory Goes to the Movies (1993), Constructing the New Consumer Society (1997) and Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s (1999). She has published widely on topics such as feminine consumer culture, fashion photography and contemporary Hollywood cinema. Her areas of research include film theory, cultural studies, feminist theory, consumer culture, and film melodrama. Professor Radner has also recently been preparing a manuscript on the representation of agency in feminine consumer culture.

She was named a Fellow of the College in 2002.

 

Professor Judy Bennett

Professor Judy Bennett teaches in the History Department and is the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. Dr Bennett’s research interests are in Pacific History, Environmental History and Australia's and New Zealand's relations with the Pacific Islands. She gained a PhD in History at the Australian National University in 1980.

Her work on editing the autobiography of Sir Maepeza Gina, a notable Solomon Islander, has just been completed in spite of the distraction of civil war in the Solomons and severe postal delays. She has been working on a history of World War Two and the environment in the South Pacific Islands and is continuing to research the forest history of Melanesia.

Professor Judy Bennett was the Warden of Saint Margaret's College from 1984 to 1989 and she became a Fellow in 2002.

Dr Warwick Johnson

Dr Warwick Johnson is a graduate of the University of Otago (BA 1963, MA 1964) and Rutgers University, USE (EdD 1977). He worked at the University of Otago from 1989 to 2005, and was at different times Schools Liason Officer, Director of External Relations and Liason Coordinator. He has always been a strong supporter of St Margaret's, and has assisted the College and the Master in a variety of ways over many years. Warwick became a College Fellow in 2002.

 

 

Professor George Benwell

George L. Benwell is a Professor of Information Science, Pro Vice Chancellor, Dean of Research and Head of Department for the School of Business at the University of Otago. He has been at Otago since 1990 and was formerly at the University of Melbourne for over a decade.

His areas research and teaching are focussed on spatial information processing and analysis and land related information systems. He has published extensively in these areas. The interaction of culture, environment and land tenure systems is a complex and open system which he confronts with a deal of compassion. 

George has been involved with research in Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, Canada, Fiji, England, America, Malaysia and Tonga, and has published over 250 research papers and articles. He is also coordinator of the Institute for Health GeoInformatics in New Zealand. Professor Benwell was named a Fellow of the College in 2002.
  

Mrs Nancy Carr

BHSc, Dip Tchg
Nancy Carr is a former Member of College Council. She is the retired Head of Department of Consumer Sciences at the University of Otago and former Chairperson of the Board of Consumers’ Institute. Mrs Carr was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal in 1993 and has been a Fellow of St Margaret’s College since 2004.

 

Dr. John Cross

Dr. John Cross started his professional life as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, working in England and at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, USA), before establishing and teaching a Med Lab Science course at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Ireland and setting up a course in Southern Africa. He migrated to Otago University, where he studied for a PhD, and became Health Sciences Biology co-ordinator. John's research interests include infectious diseases of farmed deer, and he worked in the Deer Research Laboratory for some years.

Impressed by the philosophy of student welfare and the operation of St. Margaret's College, but rather less so by its library, he volunteered to run the library as a retirement project, and has done a great job at this since 2001. 
Among his proudest achievements he lists being a member of the National Council of the Irish Academy of Med Lab Sciences, captaincy of the Sheffield University Staff cricket team, and a couple of medals for table tennis won in his retirement. John has been a Fellow since 2005.

 

Jan Burton

Jan Burton started as Deputy Master in 2006 but moved into a new apartment at the College in 2007.  She is married to Dr Jeremy Burton (a Microbiologist) and has a five year old son Maxwell and a one year old daughter, Isabelle. They have two cats (Poppy and Charlie).  Jan was a resident of the College from 1991 – 1993 and kept a close association since then.  In recognition of her links and help to the College Jan was named a Fellow of the College in 2005.  Jan has worked in management in New Zealand and in Canada before returning to the College.

 

H. Robert Wilson

H. Robert Wilson was elected to membership of Saint Margaret's College Council in 1978 and was elected President in 1980. In 2006 he was elected to be a fellow of the College after stepping down from the College Council.

Former Chairman of the Dunedin Stock Exchange and Former President of the New Zealand Stock Exchange. Rotary Club Past President of Dunedin South and being named a Paul Harris Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, London. Past President of The Dunedin Club, John McGlashan College Old Collegians Association, and the Royal Dunedin Male Choir. Mr Wilson is a Council Member of the Otago Medical Research Foundation and has led Saint Margaret's College to also take out membership.  Wilson has been a blood donor for over 40 years and is active in the Anglican Church.

Mr Wilson's contribution and close involvement with the College was recognised by naming the new wing the Robert Wilson Wing. Mr Wilson knows many students and is a frequent and welcome visitor to the College.

Professor Thomas Rades 

Professor Thomas Rades is the Chair in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the NZ National School of Pharmacy at the University of Otago.  His research interests are in formulation and drug delivery and physical characterisation of the solid and liquid crystalline state of matter. The research in both areas aims to improve drug therapy through appropriate formulation of medicines and to increase our understanding of the physico-chemical properties of drugs and medicines. It combines physical, chemical, and biological sciences and technology to optimally formulate drugs for human and veterinary uses. Specific research interests are 'Colloidal delivery systems for bioactives' and 'The solid state of drugs and dosage forms'.

Professor Rades has co-coordinated "Arts/Science Breakfasts" at St. Margaret's College since 2007, engaging students in academic discussion about the similarities and differences of thought in the science and arts divisions. Thomas became Fellow of the College in 2006.

Professor Pauline Norris

MA (Cant), PhD (Vic)
Professor Pauline Norris is the Chair in Social Pharmacy at Otago's School of Pharmacy.  Her research includes work in Health Services, Pharmacy Practice, and Qualitative and Quantitative methods. 

Pauline has co-cordinated "Arts/Science Breakfasts" at St. Margaret's College since 2007, when she became a Fellow, engaging students in academic discussion about the similarities and differences of thought in the science and arts divisions.

Dr. Sarah Young

Dr. Sarah Young is part of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Otago.  Her research has focused primarily on vaccine development. Of particular interest is making vaccines work more effectively by manipulating the immune response with immune hormones or cytokines. These generated vaccines have been used in tumour models, and in infectious disease models. Sarah is Vice-President of the Otago Institute and became a Fellow of St Margaret’s in 2007. She also provides extra care for the Student Executive at the College.

 

Dr. Jeremy Burton

Jeremy Burton is the Business Development Manager for the NZX-listed biotechnology company, BLIS Technologies Ltd. He is responsible for managing the company's global business development and clinical trials. Prior to returning to New Zealand he worked as a part of the Advanced Surgical Technologies Group at the Lawson Health Research Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital, Canada, the Canadian Research and Development Centre for Probiotics and at the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Jeremy undertook his PhD at Otago in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and at the Nestle Research Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has been awarded several patents. However, his greatest achievement is marrying the Deputy Master, Jan, and having two beautiful children.

He was named a Fellow of the College in 2007.

Dr. David Band

David Band is an experienced international businessman and academic. David has spent most of his career in consulting, including extensive periods with Korn/Ferry International, PA Consulting Group, and Sibson.

David's professional expertise lies in the areas of corporate governance, human capital management, account penetration, and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of organisations' personal functions. He has worked in a wide range of sectors, including technology, professional services, agribusiness, financial services, engineering, FMCG, public sector and not-for-profit.

He has also been the Dean of Leeds Business School and Director of the Advanced Business Programme at the University of Otago. He holds a Ph.D. from the Australian National University. He has co-authored (with Neville Bain) one of the standard works on effective corporate governance. Dr. David Band has been a Fellow of the College since 2008 and provides extra care for the Welfare Staff.

Professor Michael Reilly

Dr. Michael Reilly was appointed a Professor in Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies at Otago niversity in 1993. His research interests include the analysis and publication of historical language textx from the island of Mangaia (in the Cook Islands), the qualities required of chiefly forms of leadership in eastern Polynesia, and traditional Maori historical narratives, especially looking at the language of emotion.

Professor Reilly became a Fellow in 2008.

Mr. Darryl Tong
 
Mr. Darryl tong completed his Bachelor of Dental Surgery from Otago in 1990, and worked in Public Dental Health in Australia, before travelling to Seattle for specialist training. Graduating with a Masters of Dental Surgery in 1999, Mr Tong returned to Dunedin as a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon and senior lecturer. Embarking on a sideways journey into medicine, he graduated with an MBChB (Otago) in 2004. Mr Tong remains on Faculty at the School of Dentistry and has active interests in teaching, clinical research in trauma and oral cancer and military medicine.

Darryl was named a College Fellow in 2008 for his continued support to students and college life.

Penny Field

Penny Field teaches business management, marketing and professional issues for dietitians in the Nutrition Department at Otago University. Her research interests include evidence-based health policies, food and nutrition policies, the use of social practices in the health sector, and Dietetic education and reflective practice. She is currently undertaking a PhD, investigating the factors that facilitate evidence use in Nutrition policy, and she also has achieved a number of publications.

Penny became a Fellow of St Margaret’s College in 2008.

Lynn Taylor

Lynn Taylor is a visual artist working across print, digital, textile, paint, sculptural and written mediums. Her work is layered with historical references, particularly revolving around the sea.

Lynn was a resident at St. Margaret's College in 1980, and graduated in 1984 with a Bachelor of Education. She focused her early career on specialist art teaching and later lectured at the School of Art. She regularly teaches printmaking throughout New Zealand, and has worked with communities in Japan and Korea. In 1998 Lynn received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art, and in 2003 received her Master of Fine Art (distinction). Her work has received a number of awards and scholarships and her artworks are held in both private and public collections nationally and internationally.

Lynn has contributed to the Welfare Staff training programme at St. Margaret's College and has been an enjoyable guest at Formal Dinner. She became a Fellow of the College in 2008.

Dr. Susan Heydon

Dr. Susan Heydon has a PhD in History from the University of Otago. She has taught courses on India, international medical aid, and the Sherpas of the Mt Everest area of Nepal, at Otago University. She currently holds a Teaching Fellowship in the School of Pharmacy. Between 1996 and 1998 she and her family volunteered at Khunde Hospital in Nepal. She has also lived in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

Susan's ongoing research interests focus on international health, foreign aid, and practicing medicine in a plural medical environment. Her book about the introduction of 'modern medicine' and the implementation of an aid project in Nepal was published in 2009.

Dr. Heydon was named a College Fellow in 2008.

Clifford Hall

Cliff Hall has been the groundsman at St. Margaret's College for the past sixteen years. He has maintained the gardens and grounds to an extremely high standard, which are an asset to the college. Prior to working at St. Margaret's College, Cliff had worked in a variety of different professions, as a butcher, farmer, sugar miller, and freezing worker, to name a few.

Cliff was named a College Fellow in 2008, in recognition of the high standard of work around the college, and his dedication to the grounds and students.

Christine Griffiths

RGON, BA, educ, Dip Grad, bio-ethics.
Born into country life Chris has had a journey of 40 years following many different pathways of a Nursing career. For the last 13 years she has been based at the University of Otago, following a passion for working with young people. She has been involved with Student Health Services for many years, and runs programs at many Halls of Residences annually. Balancing a busy work life with family, including two precious grandchildren, she has gained a Diploma for Graduates, bio-ethics, and a Bachelor of Arts, education. Implementing the education programme that she developed at Otago University into Liverpool Hope University, has been a highlight during her years at University of Otago.

Chris has travelled widely, embracing these experiences, supporting an environment in which students develop personally and socially at a significant time in their lives.

Chris was named a College Fellow in 2008, as she continues to support and work with St. Margaret's students each year.

David Glenn

Mr David Glenn is the immediate National Past President of the Multiple Sclerosis Society. He is also in charge of the National Unit Standards for Horticulture Training.

David and his wife, Beverley, designed the wonderful gardens around the college and he became a College Fellow in 2008.

Dr. John Reynolds

Dr. John Reynolds is a senior lecturer in Health Sciences and Neuroscience in the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology at the University of Otago. He leads a laboratory which forms part of the Basal Ganglia Research Group at Otago, investigating the functioning of brain areas which are affected in neurological disorders such as Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

John graduated from the University of Otago with a medical degree in 1994. He then completed a PhD in Neuroscience in 2000. John has continued his postdoctoral work, and is a very popular lecturer for the Health Science HUBS paper.

John was named a Fellow of St Margaret’s College in 2008.

 

Professor Tony Binns

Tony Binns graduated from the University of Sheffield, UK with BA (Hons) in Geography and Diploma in Education (with Distinction). After a period of school teaching in South Yorkshire (UK), he then graduated from the University of Birmingham with MA and PhD in Geography and African Studies. He was appointed at the University of Sussex (UK) in 1975 as Research Fellow in Economic Geography, and in 1976 as Lecturer in Geography in the School of African and Asian Studies. He was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer in 1994, and to Reader in 2000.

Professor Binns was named a Fellow of the College in 2009.

Dr. Latika Samalia

DSM (Fiji), PGDipSci (Otago)

Dr. Samalia Graduated with Surgery and Medicine Degree from Fiji School of Medicine and University of the South Pacific.  Worked as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in several hospitals in Fiji prior to coming to Dunedin.  Her current position is a Professional Practice Fellow at the Anatomy and Structural Biology Department of Otago School of Medical Sciences (OSMS) since 1993 with interests in teaching Clinical Anatomy. 

Academic interests of Clinical Anatomy now involves her in teaching Anatomy in several courses at the Otago University.  Apart from Lecturing to the First Year Health Science students of Otago Dr Samalia is involved in a number of profession courses being taught at the Anatomy Department.  These include second, third and fifth year medical students; second year- Dentistry, Physiotherapy, Physical Education Degree students, and 4th year Pharmacy classes. 

Post graduate teaching is also a major involvement and she carries out small group tutorials or running workshops for Obstetric and Gynaecology registrars, General Practitioners from South Island of NZ, Midwives from the South Island, Faciomaxillary surgical students and is also involved in the teaching of Part 1 course of the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. 

She is married to Dr KP Samalia, a Urologist and has two girls.  She is also involved in the mentoring of Pacific Island Health professional students at the OSMS.  She has been a tutor at the College and always takes interest in the educational development of the students. 

Dr. Samalia became a College Fellow in 2009.

Professor D Robin Taylor

MD (Aberd), MRCP (UK), FRCP (Can)
Professor D Robin Taylor is currently a Professor working at the Otago University Dunedin School of Medicine. His particular interest of research is Respiratory Medicine. Professor Taylor is also the Associate Dean of Student Affairs in the Faculty of Medicine.

Robin was named a Fellow of the College in 2010.

-Blenheim Residents- 

John Keith Reed

Keith Reed is regarded as one of New Zealand's leading landscape water-colour artists, with works sold throughout Australasia and the United States of America.

Reed held his first exhibition when he was only sixteen, in which three-quaters of the sixty works displayed were sold. He has since attained his Diploma in Fine Arts and has held many exhibitions throughout the South Island. In 1996, Reed was sponsored by Fisher's Fine Arts of Christchurch to undertake a painting and study trip to England, France and Venice. As a result, his landscape and street-scene paintings now show a variety of influences. He has recently opened his own gallery at his home in Spring Creek, Marlborough.

In 2008, Reed generously donated a brilliant water-colour painting of Saint Margaret's College to the college, and many of his other works are displayed throughout our buildings. He became a Fellow of the College in 2008.

-Wellington Residents-

Lieutenant Commander Philip Bradshaw

Lieutenant Commander Phil Bradshaw has been the Resident Naval Officer in Dunedin for the past 4 years, for the New Zealand Navy. In his capacity he was responsible for building and maintaining the relationship between the Navy and the lower half of the South Island, which includes coordination of all naval ship visits. However, Lt Cdr Bradshaw has recently been appointed a position in Wellington where he will be director of defence communications at the Defence Force Wellington headquarters.

Bradshaw has completed a Bachelor of Technology (with honours) majoring in Manufacturing and Industrial Technology at Massey University. He has also managed the Marine Engineering School for two years, where he was responsible for the formal professional training of all Marine Engineering Branch personnel.

Lt Cdr Bradshaw has been involved in the Navy for over twenty years, and has travelled the world throughout his career. He has maintained a strong relationship with Saint Margaret's College and students, and has contributed to Welfare Staff training and formal dinners. Philip was named a Fellow in 2008.

-Gisborne Residents- 

Dr. Susannah Grant

Susannah Grant has maintained close links with St. Margaret's College since her years as a resident and welfare staff member (1995-1997). Her grandmother attended the college in the 1930's, and four of Susannah's siblings have also passed through St. Margaret's, each acquiring a spouse in the process. Susannah met her husband Shaun, now a Paediatrician, in their first year at the college. They now have two daughters.

Susannah completed her PhD in nineteenth century New Zealand history in 2006. She has been recently working on the centennial history of St. Margaret's College and was named a Fellow of the College in 2008.

-Hamilton Residents-

Archbishop David Moxon, Bishop of Waikato

David Moxon is the Senior Bishop of the New Zealand Diocese and co presiding Bishop in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

Bishop Moxon was the youngest New Zealand Bishop when he was ordained on the 13th of August 1993. He attended Freyberg High School. He undertook tertiary study at Canterbury and Massey Universities, and at Oxford, England. He holds two Masters of Arts degrees: in education with honours from Massey University and in theology from Oxford. He also has a Licentiate of Theology (Aotearoa) and a Diploma of Maori Studies from Waikato University.

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1979 in the Diocese of Waiapu, and was a curate in the parish of Havelock North: he also served as Chairperson of the Diocesan Youth Council. He became Vicar of Gate Pa (Tauranga) in 1981. In 1987 he was appointed as Director of Theological Education by Extension for the Anglican Church in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Polynesia. During this period he edited "An Education for Liturgy Kit", a Christian Initiation Resource Kit and a Bi-cultural Education Resource Kit. He was elected Bishop of Waikato in 1993. He was elected Archbishop and co presiding Bishop of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia in 2006.

Bishop Moxon has been heavily involved in liturgical education and development, and was a member of the Commission which produced A New/Zealand Prayer Book: He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa. He has been at the forefront of developments in Local Shared Ministry, a concept that has been of particular interest in parts of the Diocese of Waikato. He presently co-chairs the Anglican Roman Catholic Commission of Aotearoa New Zealand and represents New Zealand on the St George's College, Jerusalem, Australasian Committee and the Australasian Advisory Council on the Religious Life. He is the Liaison Bishop for Anglican Religious in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Polynesia and also represents the Bishops on the Tikanga Pakeha Anglican Care Network.

Bishop Moxon is a frequent visitor to the College and contributes much to College life. He was named a College Fellow in 2006.

-Taranaki residents- 

John Pickering

Trustee and Secretary of the Priscilla Sandys Wunsch Scholarship Trust.  Mr Pickering qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Victoria University in Wellington and worked in London, Johannesburg and New Zealand before retiring in New Plymouth.  He has held the positions of treasurer of the Taranaki Hospital Board; secretary of Taranaki Newspapers Ltd and the Taranaki Cricket Association; and various local charities.  His current interests include genealogy and the recently consecrated Taranaki Cathedral Church of St Mary's.  He hosted the inaugural Taranaki alumni function in 2010.

His association with St. Margaret's College began in 2000 when close friend Miss Wunsch died leaving her substantial estate in perpetuity for the benefit of less fortunate Taranaki students to attend Otago University.  In its first ten years the Trust paid scholarships to 125 scholars of over $2.5 million from the annual income.  Miss Wunsch enjoyed many years residing in St. Margaret's College before graduating with a BA in 1945.  John actively encourages students intending to study at Otago to stay in St. Margaret's in their years of study.  The fellowship was awarded in 2010.

-Auckland residents-
 
Professor Philip Sallis *
*also residing in Chile

Professor of Computer Science
Director, Software Engineering Research Laboratory

Philip Sallis was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at AUT and now holds a personal professorship in Computer Science and remains active as a researcher, currently participating in projects both in New Zealand and Chile.

For the 12 years prior to coming to AUT, Professor Sallis was Foundation Professor of Information Science and departmental head at the University of Otago. Professor Sallis has held academic positions in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. He has also worked as an analyst/programmer and consultant to industry and a range of local and central government bodies. He has a continuing involvement with government in New Zealand as a committee and working party member and has chaired several reviews and commissions.

Professor Sallis has been a College Fellow since 2002.

Professor Steve MacDonell

Stephen G. MacDonell is Professor of Software Engineering and Head of the School of Information Technology at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

He holds BCom(Hons) and MCom degrees in information science from the University of Otago and a PhD in software engineering from the University of Cambridge.

His main research activities are in the areas of software measurement, project planning, estimation and management, software engineering data analysis, and software forensics. He is a member of the ACM and NZCS.

Stephen became a Fellow of the College in 2002.

Professor Tania Ka'ai

In 1996, Professor Ka‘ai was appointed Foundation Chair and Head of the Department of Mäori Studies at the University of Otago. She was the first Mäori woman to be appointed to this position in a New Zealand University. Professor Ka‘ai is of Mäori and Pacific descent. She is Ngäti Porou on her mother’s side and Hawaiian, Samoan and Cook Island Mäori on her father’s side. She has national recognition as a Mäori educator with expertise in the history and politics of the Mäori language and a Mäori world view. She also has international recognition in Indigenous epistemology (knowledge systems) and was a co-writer of the Coolangatta statement on Indigenous Peoples Rights in Education which was presented to the United Nations in 1999.

While Professor Ka‘ai has published largely in the field of Mäori Education, she is also interested in the Mäori performing arts. She has written compositions for the Te Tumu student’s kapa haka group which travelled away annually for two weeks to visit different tribal areas and to promote study at the University of Otago to Mäori secondary school students. In so doing, Professor Ka‘ai has a strong commitment to the Mäori community nationally.

Professor Ka‘ai is now working at AUT in Auckland. She has been associated with St Margaret’s College since 1997 and was named a Fellow in 2002. She still advocates the College to Mäori parents and their children in considering study at the University of Otago.

Dr Beryl Overton Howie

QSO, MB Ch B, DCROG, MRCOG, FRACS, FRACOG.
Dr Beryl Howie was born in Invercargill on 7 November 1924, but brought up in Auckland. She attended Epsom Girls' and Auckland University before coming to Otago to do Medicine. She stayed at St Margaret's, where she was president in 1947, and the next year wrote her Public Health dissertation on the sleep patterns of women students, using St Margaret's residents for her study group. After graduating in 1949 she worked as a House Surgeon in Timaru for two years. She then went to England where she spent seven years, five of them at Oxford, in postgraduate study. In this period she completed her Diploma of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1953 and became a Member of the College in 1955.

In January 1959 Dr Howie achieved her long held ambition to go to India. She was appointed to the Christian Medical College at Ludhiana, in the Punjab, as Professor and Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

In 1964 Dr Howie took the preliminary for her Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Australasia, completing in 1970. In 1979 the New Zealand High Commissioner in India held a reception to present her with the Queen's Service Order for her work for Indian mothers.

Back in New Zealand, Dr Howie did deputation work for the Presbyterian Church, and published a Handbook of High Risk Obstetrics for Third World Countries. In 1984 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists - a rare woman's name in that distinguished group. In the same year she took on a new challenge, as Medical Officer in Asia for the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship. Dr Howie is now retired and has been a College Fellow since 2005.

-Australian Residents-

Professor Marian Simms

Professor Marian Simms was appointed to the Chair in Political Studies at the University of Otago in July 2002. Previously she was Reader in Political Science at the Australian National University, from 1994 - 2002. Currently, Marian is Head of School of History, Heritage and Society at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia. Professor Simms has published widely on Australian politics, public policy, gender and politics and political parties. Born in Canberra, she studied law, history and political science at the Australian National University and La Trobe University. She was subsequently appointed to a lectureship at the ANU in 1985, after graduating with her Ph.D.

Her publications include 11 books, over 90 journal articles, chapters and conference papers, and many contributions to newspapers and other branches of the media.

A past President of the Australasian Political Studies Association (1992-3) and Editor of its journal (1987-90), she has also held visiting fellowships at the Universities of London, Cambridge, Southern California (Washington DC campus) and Texas. Dr Simms has delivered public lectures in London, Sydney, Dunedin and Canberra and was awarded a Senior Fulbright fellowship in Washington, DC.

Professor Simms was named a Fellow of the College in 2002.

 
Professor Peter A Leggat

Professor Peter A. Leggat has been associated with St Margaret's College, University of Otago, as a frequent visiting scholar, supporter and friend since 1993. He is patron of one of the College's most senior prizes, the Dr PA Leggat Trophy for Excellence in Sporting and Academic Achievement. He also presented to the College “The Still Point”, an Oil of Canvas painting by Mary Horn, which presently has pride of place in the College entrance foyer.

A former Fulbright Scholar, Professor Leggat is currently Head of the School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Molecular Sciences, James Cook University (JCU) He is also holds Visiting Professorships in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; the Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle; and in the Faculty of Dentistry, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. He has also held a number of senior executive positions in professional organizations, including Director General of the World Safety Organization (WSO) from 1997-1999, President of the Australasian College of Tropical Medicine (ACTM) from 1996-1998, from 2002-2004 and from 2006-2008, and President of the Townsville Sub-Branch of the Australian Medical Association from 1996-2000. He continues to hold Board positions in the ACTM, WSO, the JCU Council, and the Queensland Council of St John Ambulance Australia.

Professor Leggat has contributed more than 500 papers to professional journals and national and international conferences, as well as two dozen textbooks and directories. His research interests include tropical medicine and occupational health. He became a College Fellow in 2003.

-UK Residents-

Canon Richard Quinlan

Canon Richard Quinlan is Parish Priest of St. Simon’s Church, Putney. He is a Canon of St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, London. He is an active member of the Focolari group, an international Catholic based ecumenical renewal group, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He is the author of A Community Afire: renewing the parish for service (Mayhew, London, 2003). Canon Quinlan has hosted Saint Margaret's College Alumni at various times and is the main organizer behind the London reunion. The College Council named him a Fellow of the College in 2004, in recognition of his contribution to the College.

Neville Emslie

Neville Emslie has been Minister at a number of Baptist churches in New Zealand before becoming Principal of the School of Ministry at Knox Theological College for the Presbyterian Church. He is currently Director of Ministry Training for the Diocese of Canterbury, New Zealand. Neville was the owner of the Rosslyn Art Gallery in Dunedin and is Vice Principal for Theological Training for the Anglican Diocese of Lincoln UK and MA Programme Leader for the School of Theology and Ministry Studies in the University of Lincoln.  He was named a Fellow of the College in 2006, in recognition of his work assisting with staff at the College and his continued interest in the College.  Neville is a benefactor of the College art collection.

Professor Gerald Pillay

D. Theol, D. Phil, FRSA (born Dec 21, 1953) Professor Gerald Pillay is the present Vice Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University.

Born in Natal in South Africa, Pillay was awarded a BA, a BD (with distinction) and Doctor of Theology from the University of Durban-Westville and a further DPhil in Philosophical Theology from Rhodes University. On September 1, 2003, Professor Pillay was appointed Rector & Chief Executive of Liverpool Hope University. In 2005 he was elected a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).

After lecturing at the University of Durban-Westville, he became Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of South Africa in 1988, a post he held for eight years. During this period he was also Guest Professor at North Western University, Illinois; Research Fellow at Princeton University; Guest Professor at Rhodes University and Visiting Professor at the Graduate School at the Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (AMBS), Indiana, USA. In 1997 he became Foundation Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Whilst in 1998, he became Executive Head of the School of Liberal Arts within that University. Pillay has served on editorial boards of two international journals (Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae and Verbum et Ecclesia), has presented papers at numerous international conferences and has served on various public and educational bodies. He has published extensively and is an internationally respected scholar. He has been involved in recent research and lecturing in Cambridge, Oxford, Pretoria, California, Canada and Munich. A New Zealand citizen, Pillay is married with two sons, Kirubin, the eldest, and Sudershan, the youngest. (Taken from Wikipedia.org)

Professor Pillay became a Fellow in 2009.