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Harlene Hayne
OFFICER OF THE NEW ZEALAND ORDER OF MERIT (ONZM)
Prof Harlene Hayne, of Mosgiel, has been awarded an ONZM for
services to scientific and medical research.
Prof Hayne is head of the University of Otago's psychology
department and specialises in the research of memory and the
developmental process of memory.
She came to Dunedin from the United States in 1992, after
completing her PhD at Rutgers University and spending three
years at Princeton University as a postdoctoral fellow.
She has been a researcher at Otago University for more than
10 years and her memory research is often cited in courtrooms
in New Zealand and overseas.
Last December, she hit the headlines when she suggested there
was a "strong risk" the evidence of children involved in the
1993 Peter Ellis sex abuse case was contaminated because of
the way interviews were carried out by the police.
She urged the courts to reconsider the case.
Prof Hayne is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand,
has served on the Royal Society's Academy Council, and is a
member of both the Marsden Fund Council and the New Zealand
National Science Panel.
She was awarded a personal chair in psychology at the
University of Otago in 2002.
She was a former board member of the International Society
for Developmental Psychobiology and is a member of several
associations, including the Society for Research in Child
Development, the International Society for Infant Studies and
the University of Otago Memory Research Theme.
She is a consultant reviewer to funding agencies, wrote The
Development of Implicit and Explicit Memory in 2001 and
contributes to numerous national and international journals.
Prof Hayne will become the research and enterprise deputy
vice-chancellor from February, overseeing research and
commercial activities.
She will take over from Prof Geoff White.
Prof Hayne could not be contacted for comment.
