Associate Professor Vivienne Anderson, Our People, College of Education, University of Otago, New Zealand

Dean

DipTch, BEd, PGDipArts, PhD

Dunedin Campus
Tel +64 3 479 5360
Email vivienne.anderson@otago.ac.nz

Biography

I b Viv Anderson egan my career in education as a primary school teacher during the 1990s and early 2000s. Following a stint in the USA as an international scholar’s partner, new mother and secondary alien, I became interested in internationalisation policy, and in particular, the intersections between policy, education and women’s lives.
In 2008, I completed a doctorate in Education and Anthropology, which explored women’s experiences in internationalised higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand. Since then, I have worked in a range of academic roles at the University of Otago, including as an educational researcher at the Faculty of Dentistry, lecturer and senior lecturer at the College of Education, and senior lecturer and academic developer in Higher Education. In 2020, I returned to the College of Education as Associate Dean, to teach across initial teacher education and education studies programmes, and supervise postgraduate students. I commenced the role of Dean in February 2022.

Teaching areas

I teach in the areas of educational sociology; intercultural education; diversity and inclusion; gender and education; critical theoretical perspectives; and qualitative research methods.

Postgraduate supervision

Current students

Fiona Humphries (EdD) – Wellbeing of teachers
Chloe Mackenzie (PhD) – Arts-based peacebuilding and refugee integration
Olivia MacLean (BA Hons) – School-based suicide prevention
Emma Osborne (PhD) – The experiences, motivations and needs of students who are studying or researching aspects of their lived experience
Lien Trinh (PhD) – The provision of sexual health information to international students in the New Zealand homestay environment
Jill Turner (DBA) – Exploring structural gender discrimination through the experiences of academic women at the University of Otago

Past students

Charmaine Kwan (PhD 2017-2020) – A study of the Fiji higher education sector
Yvonne Brouwer (EdD 2015-2021) – Narratives of experience: Beginning teachers developing biculturally responsive pedagogy
Salmah Kassim (PhD 2020) – The Impact of International Experiences on Women's Career Development
Naoko Inoue (PhD 2019) – The experiences of native English speaking teachers who work and live in Japan
Farhana Binti Abu Bakar (PhD 2018) – The use of humour in teaching and learning in higher education
Rafaela Rabello (PhD 2018) – An exploration of the Oil and Gas sector’s social investment in host countries
Tracy Rogers (PhD 2018) – Exploring educational persistence: What factors support girls to remain in secondary school in Cambodia?
Mary Furnari (PhD 2018) – Medical students' reflective thinking and intercultural learning in online discussions
Lee Adam (PhD 2015) – University students' understandings of plagiarism
Shona Waterhouse (MEd 2013) – Young mothers at high school in New Zealand
Jayaram Subramanian (MHealthSci 2012) – Student and graduate perceptions of the DClinDent programme: a qualitative research project

Research interests

My research explores questions relating to educational mobilities; education pathways; gender, equity and education; migration and education; and education policy.

Current Research

I currently lead a project, funded through a New Zealand Council for Educational Research Teaching and Learning Research Initiative Grant, entitled: Refugee-background students in Aotearoa: Supporting successful secondary to tertiary education transitions.

Research grants

2020-2022 – 'Refugee-background students in Aotearoa — Supporting successful secondary to tertiary education transitions’. Funded through a NZ Council for Educational Research Teaching & Learning Research Initiative Grant (Principal Investigator). Other investigators included Dr Jo Oranje (University of Otago), Amber Fraser-Smith (Otago Polytechnic), Jarrah Cooke (NZ Red Cross), Pip Laufiso (Ministry of Education), Angela Watts (Carisbrook School), and Dr Rachel Rafferty (University of Derby).
2020-2021 – ‘Arts and migration: Women’s experiences of resettlement and integration’. Funded through a Centre for Global Migrations Collaborative Research Grant (Associate Investigator). Dr Pooneh Torabian (Tourism) is Principal Investigator. Other Associate Investigators include Ali Mostolizdeh (Education), and Neil Vallely (Centre for Global Migrations).
2018-2019 – ‘Improving university processes, practices and pedagogies through attention to the narratives of international women students and former refugees’. Funded through a University of Otago Quality Improvement Grant (Principal Investigator).
2016-2017 – ‘How do successful university students conceptualise “good teaching” and “effective learning”? Funded through an Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Grant (Principal Investigator).
2014-2015 – ‘Internationalised higher education in place: beginning teacher journeys in Malaysia and New Zealand’. Funded through a University of Otago Research Grant (Principal Investigator).
2012-2013 – ‘How effective is Facebook as a research tool for examining pre-service teachers' future thinking?’. Funded through a Humanities Research Grant (Associate Investigator, with Associate Professor Karen Nairn).
2012-2013 – ‘How is the term “secular” understood in a New Zealand context?’. Funded through a University of Otago Research Grant (Associate Investigator, with Professor Andrew Bradstock).
2012-2013 – ‘Oranga niho me nga tangata whaiora’. Funded through Health Research Council Maori Health Joint Venture Maori Oral Health Research funding (Associate Investigator, with Professor John Broughton, Mr Martin Steinmann, Dr Rudi Downs, Ms Minnie McGibbon, and Dr Mark Lawrence).
2011-2015 – ‘Oranga niho, oranga tinana, oranga whanau: What are the implications of final-year dental student outplacements with Maori Oral Health Providers for students, hosts and whanau?’. Funded through a Ministry of Health Oral Health Research Fund grant (Principal Investigator).
2010 – ‘Collaborative studies of people on the move: Transitions, connections and mobilities’. Funded through a BRCSS Seeding Social Science Research Initiatives Grant (joint Principal Investigator, with Dr Martha Bell and Dr Tara Duncan).
2010 – ‘Supporting students’ study-work transition in Oral Health and Dental Technology’. Funded through a University of Otago Quality Advancement Improvement Grant (Principal Investigator).
2008-2011 – ‘Tracking Study on Asian Business Graduates from New Zealand’. Funded through the Asia NZ Foundation (Associate Investigator, with Mr Terry McGrath, Mr Chze Pheng Ching, Mr Akira Doi, and Mr Paul Stock).

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Publications

Anderson, V., Ortiz-Ayala, A., & Mostolizadeh, S. (2023). Schools and teachers as brokers of belonging for refugee-background young people. International Journal of Inclusive Education. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13603116.2023.2210591

Anderson, V., Mostolizadeh, S., Oranje, J., Fraser-Smith, A., & Crampton, E. (2023). Navigating the secondary-tertiary education border: Refugee-background students in Southern Aotearoa New Zealand. Research Papers in Education, 38(2), 250-275. doi: 10.1080/02671522.2021.1961300

Inoue, N., & Anderson, V. (2022). Encountering and contesting native-speakerism in Japanese universities. Higher Education Research & Development. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2022.2128073

Kwan, C., & Anderson, V. (2022). Navigating Fiji’s higher education landscape with indigenous research methodologies. Pacific Dynamics, 6(2), 136-155. doi: 10.26021/13504

Anderson, V., Cone, T., Rafferty, R., & Inoue, N. (2022). Mobile agency and relational webs in women's narratives of international study. Higher Education, 83, 911-927. doi: 10.1007/s10734-021-00714-7

Anderson, V., & Johnson, H. (Eds.). (2020). Migration, education and translation: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on human mobility and cultural encounters in education settings. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 229p. doi: 10.4324/9780429291159

Edited Book - Research

Anderson, V., & Johnson, H. (2020). Introduction. In V. Anderson & H. Johnson (Eds.), Migration, education and translation: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on human mobility and cultural encounters in education settings. (pp. 1-9). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429291159

Chapter in Book - Research

Inoue, N., & Anderson, V. (2020). English language teaching as a pathway to university employment for native English-speaking migrants to Japan. In V. Anderson & H. Johnson (Eds.), Migration, education and translation: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on human mobility and cultural encounters in education settings. (pp. 105-116). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429291159

Chapter in Book - Research

Costa Camoes Rabello, R., Anderson, V., & Nairn, K. (2018). An exploration of social investment discourses in the oil and gas sector. In D. Crowther, S. Seifi & A. Moyeen (Eds.), The goals of sustainable development: Responsibility and governance. (pp. 139-154). Singapore: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-5047-3_9

Chapter in Book - Research

Costa Camoes Rabello, R., Nairn, K., & Anderson, V. (2018). Rethinking corporate social responsibility in capitalist neoliberal times. In D. Crowther & S. Seifi (Eds.), Redefining corporate social responsibility. (pp. 27-41). Bingley, UK: Emerald. doi: 10.1108/S2043-052320180000013005

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Kwan, C., & Anderson, V. (2022). Navigating Fiji’s higher education landscape with indigenous research methodologies. Pacific Dynamics, 6(2), 136-155. doi: 10.26021/13504

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Anderson, V., & Bristowe, Z. (2021). Re-placing “place” in internationalised higher education: Reflections from Aotearoa New Zealand. Studies in Social Justice, 14(2), 410-428. doi: 10.26522/SSJ.V14I2.2206

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Osborne, E., Anderson, V., & Robson, B. (2021). Students as epistemological agents: Claiming life experience as real knowledge in health professional education. Higher Education, 81(4), 741-756. doi: 10.1007/s10734-020-00571-w

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Osborne, E., Robson, B., & Anderson, V. (2021). When personal experience overlaps with study. Clinical Teacher, 18, 517-522. doi: 10.1111/tct.13384

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Anderson, V., Cone, T., Inoue, N., & Rafferty, R. (2020). Narratives of navigation: Refugee-background women's higher education journeys in Bangladesh and New Zealand. Sites, 17(1), 15-39. doi: 10.11157/sites-id458

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Anderson, V., Rabello, R., Wass, R., Golding, C., Rangi, A., Eteuati, E., Bristowe, Z., & Waller, A. (2020). Good teaching as care in higher education. Higher Education, 79, 1-19. doi: 10.1007/s10734-019-00392-6

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Rafferty, R., Burgin, A., & Anderson, V. (2020). Do we really offer refuge? Using Galtung's concept of structural violence to interrogate refugee resettlement support in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sites, 17(1), 115-139. doi: 10.11157/sites-id455

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Wass, R., Anderson, V., Rabello, R., Golding, C., Rangi, A., & Eteuati, E. (2020). Photovoice as a research method for higher education research. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(4), 834-850. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2019.1692791

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Costa Camoes Rabello, R., Nairn, K., & Anderson, V. (2019). Working within/against institutional expectations: Exploring recommendations for social investment in the oil and gas sector. Extractive Industries & Society, 6(1), 103-109. doi: 10.1016/j.exis.2018.06.007

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Rogers, T. L., & Anderson, V. R. (2019). Exploring Cambodian schoolgirls’ educational persistence: A community cultural wealth perspective. Gender, Place & Culture, 26(4), 533-558. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2018.1555517

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Nairn, K., Anderson, V., & Blanch, K. (2018). Future teachers debate charter schools on Facebook: Analysing their political subjectivities. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 39(1), 41-52. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2016.1228045

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Adam, L., Anderson, V., & Spronken-Smith, R. (2017). ‘It’s not fair’: Policy discourses and students’ understandings of plagiarism in a New Zealand university. Higher Education, 74(1), 17-32. doi: 10.1007/s10734-016-0025-9

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Anderson, V., Young, S., Blanch, K., & Smith, L. (2017). Mobility, place and affect in transnational teacher education graduates’ accounts of their first year teaching. Teaching & Teacher Education, 69, 11-20. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2017.09.010

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France, A. J., Anderson, V. R., Laqekoro, Z., & Foster Page, L. A. (2017). Pacific adolescents' attitudes to and beliefs about oral health and oral health care in two southern cities. New Zealand Dental Journal, 113(1), 17-24.

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Gambetta-Tessini, K., Mariño, R., Morgan, M., & Anderson, V. (2016). Coping strategies and the Salutogenic Model in future oral health professionals. BMC Medical Education, 16(1), 224. doi: 10.1186/s12909-016-0740-z

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Smith, L. A., Anderson, V., & Blanch, K. (2016). Five beginning teachers' reflections on enacting New Zealand's national standards. Teaching & Teacher Education, 54, 107-116. doi: 10.1016/j.tate.2015.11.014

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Anderson, V. R., Rapana, S. T., Broughton, J. R., Seymour, G. J., & Rich, A. M. (2015). Preliminary findings from the Oranga Niho dental student outplacement project. New Zealand Dental Journal, 111(1), 6-14.

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Kang, I., Foster Page, L. A., Anderson, V. R., Thomson, W. M., & Broadbent, J. M. (2015). Changes in students' perceptions of their dental education environment. European Journal of Dental Education, 19(2), 122-130. doi: 10.1111/eje.12112

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Anderson, V. (2014). 'World-travelling': A framework for re-thinking teaching and learning in internationalised higher education. Higher Education, 68(5), 637-652. doi: 10.1007/s10734-014-9736-y

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Anderson, V. R., Young, S., Blanch, K., & Smith, L. (2014). Beginning teachers as policy workers in Malaysia and New Zealand. International Education Journal, 14(2), 30-42.

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Anderson, V., McGrath, T., & Butcher, A. (2014). Asia-born New Zealand-educated business graduates' transition to work. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 34(1), 65-79. doi: 10.1080/02188791.2013.823378

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Anderson, V. (2013). 'Impure community': A framework for contact in internationalised higher education? Journal of Intercultural Studies, 34(1), 34-54. doi: 10.1080/07256868.2013.751903

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Foster Page, L. A., Kang, I., Anderson, V. R., Thomson, W. M., Meldrum, A. M., & Moffat, S. M. (2013). Changes in Bachelor of Oral Health students' perceptions of their dental education environment. New Zealand Dental Journal, 109(4), 134-140.

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Gambetta-Tessini, K., Mariño, R., Morgan, M., Evans, W., & Anderson, V. (2013). Stress and health-promoting attributes in Australian, New Zealand, and Chilean dental students. Journal of Dental Education, 77(6), 801-809.

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Subramanian, J., Anderson, V. R., Morgaine, K. C., & Thomson, W. M. (2013). Effective and ineffective supervision in postgraduate dental education: A qualitative study. European Journal of Dental Education, 17(1), e142-e150. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2012.00774.x

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Subramanian, J., Anderson, V. R., Morgaine, K. C., & Thomson, W. M. (2013). Improving the quality of educational strategies in postgraduate dental education using student and graduate feedback: Findings from a qualitative study in New Zealand. European Journal of Dental Education, 17(1), e151-e158. doi: 10.1111/eje.12006

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Subramanian, J., Anderson, V. R., Morgaine, K. C., & Thomson, W. M. (2013). The importance of ‘student voice’ in dental education. European Journal of Dental Education, 17(1), e136-e141. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2012.00773.x

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Tan, A. S., Anderson, V. R., & Foster Page, L. A. (2013). Second and third year oral health and dental student perceptions of future professional work. European Journal of Dental Education, 17(4), 241-250. doi: 10.1111/eje.12057

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Anderson, V. R. (2012). ‘Homes’ and being ‘at home’ in New Zealand: Women's place-making in internationalised higher education. Gender, Place & Culture, 19(3), 327-343. doi: 10.1080/0966369X.2011.610097

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Anderson, V. R., Pang, L. C., & Aarts, J. M. (2012). New Zealand dental technicians and continuing education: Findings from a qualitative survey. New Zealand Dental Journal, 108(2), 47-54.

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Anderson, V., Kang, M., & Foster Page, L. (2012). First-year oral health and dentistry student perceptions of future professional work. European Journal of Dental Education, 16(1), e166-e173. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2011.00692.x

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Foster Page, L. A., Kang, M., Anderson, V., & Thomson, W. M. (2012). Appraisal of the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure in the New Zealand dental education environment. European Journal of Dental Education, 16(2), 78-85. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0579.2011.00725.x

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Pang, L. C., Anderson, V. R., & Moffat, S. M. (2012). Initial University of Otago oral health graduates' employment pathways and preparedness for work. New Zealand Dental Journal, 108(3), 83-88.

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Anderson, V. R., Rich, A. M., & Seymour, G. J. (2011). Undergraduate dental education in New Zealand: 2007-2009 final-year student feedback on clinical learning environments. New Zealand Dental Journal, 107(3), 85-90.

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Friedlander, L., & Anderson, V. (2011). A new predoctoral endodontic module: Evaluating learning and effectiveness. Journal of Dental Education, 75(3), 351-359.

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Anderson, V. (2008). The international education agenda: International and New Zealand women students. Sites, 5(2), 57-80.

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Anderson, V., & Nairn, K. (2005). Commentary: Teaching and mothering: Reflections on the dual role. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 40(1 & 2), 211-220.

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Green, W., Anderson, V., Tait, K., & Tran, L. T. (2020). Precarity, fear and hope: Reflecting and imagining in higher education during a global pandemic. Higher Education Research & Development, 39(7), 1309-1312. doi: 10.1080/07294360.2020.1826029

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Anderson, V., & Johnson, H. (2016). Guest editorial: Special issue on "Asia and education". New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, 18(2), 1-2. [Editorial].

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Anderson, V. (2014). [Review of the book Childhoods: Growing up in Aotearoa New Zealand]. Journal of the Polynesian Society, 123(1), 91-93. [Book Review].

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Bell, M., Duncan, T., & Anderson, V. (2012). Towards a movement-driven social sciences in Aotearoa New Zealand. Sites, 9(1), 1-11. doi: 10.11157/sites-vol9iss1id203

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