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Dr Stuart Middleton
Director, External Relations
Contact
Phone: +64 9968 7692
Ext: 7692
Mobile: +64 027 568 7692
Fax: +64 9 968 7685
Email: stuart.middleton@manukau.ac.nz
Location: NA101, North Campus
Executive Assistant: Noeline Gerard
Website/Columns and Articles: www.stuartmiddleton.co.nz
Blog: www.EdTalkNZ.com
Qualifications
ONZM, PhD, MA, DipEd, AIEd (Lond), DiplSLT,DipTchg
Responsibilities
- External Relations
- Pasifika Development
- Maori Development
- School Tertiary Transition Development
Professional Memberships
- New Zealand Assn for the Teaching of English (Life Member)
- New Zealand Assn for Research in Education
- New Zealand Educational Administration and Leadership Society
- Australian Assn for Institutional Research
- Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
- Australian Vocational Education and Training Research Assn
- Association for Career and Technical Education (USA)
- Association for Studies in Higher Education (USA)
Community Memberships
- Sir George Elliot Charitable Trust
- John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation
- City of Manukau Education Trust (COMET)
- Sir Edmund Hillary House Leadership Centre Trust
- CABF Strategic Advisory Group (CMDHB)
Government Groups
- Youth Guarantee Advisory Group (Ministry of Education)
- Education Leaders Forum (Ministry of Education)
Research Interests
- Organisational Change
- Change Management
- Education of Minority Groups
- Secondary Education
- Transitions from Secondary Education into Tertiary
Background
Stuart Middleton has a background in English teaching specialising in the teaching of English in linguistically diverse communities. He taught at several Manukau secondary schools before joining the Auckland College of Education where he taught secondary teacher education courses in English and Education. He has worked as a consultant in a variety of countries throughout the Pacific and has contributed to policy development in Great Britain.
After a period as Principal of Aorere College he returned to the Auckland College of Education as General Manager Academic Services prior to taking up his current position. He wrote regular columns for New Zealand Education Review in New Zealand and Campus Review in Australia. He speaks and writes on a wide range of educational topics. In 2002 he completed a PhD thesis on the dynamics of transformational change in a tertiary education institution. He continues to write a weekly column for Campus Review in Australia and maintains a regular blog at www.stuartmiddleton.co.nz or www.edtalknz.com.
His awards have included QANTAS Media Awards in 2002 and 2003 as the Best Social Issues Columnist in New Zealand, a Commonwealth Relations Trust Fellowship to the University of London Institute of Education and in 2007 – 2008 he was awarded a Fulbright New Century Scholars Award and it was out of that work that New Zealand’s first Tertiary High School opened in 2010 at Manukau Institute of Technology was developed. In 2010 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for his services to education.
He is involved widely in community organisations in Manukau which has included a long periodas chair of the City of Manukau Education Trust. Currently he is a trustee of the John Walker Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation and is chair of the Board of Directors of Manukau Leisure Services Ltd.