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| Mere RobertsONZM | |
|---|---|
| Awards | Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Auckland, University of Auckland |
| Theses | |
| Doctoral advisor | John Lawrence Craig, Tony Charleston |
Roma Mere Roberts ONZM is a New Zealand biologist who is interested in cross-cultural understanding. In 2003 Roberts was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and science.
Academic career
Roberts describes herself as of Pākehā and Māori descent, and affiliates to Tainui, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāti Hikairo, and Ngāti Korokī Kahukura iwi.
Roberts was educated at St Cuthbert's College in Auckland. She completed a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Canterbury. She then moved to the University of Auckland, where she completed a Masters degree on Calliphora flies followed by a PhD, studying rats on Tiritiri Matangi Island.
Roberts was Head of Science at Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, and then honorary research fellow in anthropology at the University of Auckland.
Roberts was a board member of the Institute of Environmental Science and Research and Forest Research (now Scion). She was a member of the Māori advisory committee to the Environmental Risk Management Authority. Roberts was previously a member of the Ministerial Advisory Committee on Biosecurity and the UNESCO (NZ) science subcommittee. She is a member of the steering group for the University of Otago research theme Full Circle: Māori And Pacific Genetics Of Health.
Roberts is a member of the organisation New Zealand Christians in Science.
Honours and awards
In the 2003 Queen's Birthday Honours Roberts was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to Māori and science. She was awarded St Cuthbert's Old Girl Honours in 2006.
Selected works
Scholia has a profile for Mere Roberts (Q112118752).
References
- ^ Nicola (5 September 2023). "Dr Roma Mere Roberts - New Zealand Christians In Science (NZCIS)". www.nzcis.org. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- ^ Health, Full Circle: Māori and Pacific Genetics of (18 November 2014). "Research Steering Group". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- ^ "Old Girls' Honours – St Cuthbert's Old Girls Association". Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- Roberts, Roma Mere (1977). Periodicities in Calliphora stygia (Diptera: Calliphoridae) (Master's thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland.
- Roberts, Mere (1990). The ecological parasitology of the Polynesian rat (Rattus exulans) on Tiritiri Matangi Island (PhD thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland.
- "Mere Roberts | Te Hononga Pūkenga". web.archive.org. 4 February 2023. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- "Mere Roberts – eDNA Conference". Retrieved 27 December 2024.
- "Queen's Birthday Honours - part 1". NZ Herald. 26 December 2024. Retrieved 27 December 2024.
External links
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