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Anne Henderson

Anne Henderson

Qualifications

  • BA (English and History), Victoria University of Wellington
  • DipSLT, Massey University
  • MPhil (Education), Massey University
  • PhD (Social Policy), Massey University
  • Associate, Centre for Applied Cross-cultural Research

Contact

Category: Research Associate (NZ)

Background

After an initial degree in English and History from Victoria University of Wellington, I have:

  • trained and worked as a secondary school teacher (Dannevirke High School and Palmerston North Girls' High)
  • worked in a university library; completed further academic study
  • lectured in Second Language Teaching and Linguistics at Massey
  • been a Regional Coordinator for New Settlers and Multicultural Education for the Department/Ministry of Education
  • taught and lectured for five years at Shanghai International Studies University (English and New Zealand Studies and literature to undergraduates; English, EAP, and language teaching methodology in a British Council programme to retraining senior middle school teachers of English
  • taught English to Japanese and other international students and immigrants (including refugees) at International Pacific College, Massey University, and ETC in Palmerston North
  • worked as an academic writing consultant
  • was Research Officer in Massey University’s New Settlers Programme between 1997 and 2004, focusing particularly on the longitudinal study of skilled immigrants, and English language proficiency and employment in the professions
  • for two and a half years, was a Demographic Research Analyst for Statistics New Zealand—my work including the preparation and publication of a set of tables profiling the Asian ethnic groups in New Zealand from the 2006 Census and analysis of data from the LisNZ survey of immigrants to NZ.

Since mid-2013, I have been researching the 19th century immigration and settlement of Highland Scots migrants in New Zealand.

Areas of interest

Immigration policy; immigrant settlement and integration (including socioeconomic and political engagement); language policies, and ESOL; Gaelic, and Highland immigration to New Zealand; cultural identity and ethnicity.