Professor Alison Jones, of Auckland, MNZM, for services to education and sociology research
Alison Jones teaches in Te Puna Wānanga, School of Maori and Indigenous Education, at the University of Auckland, and has worked for more than 30 years in the field of sociology of education. Her areas of study have included feminist theory, an ethnographic study of Pacific Islands girls’ schooling, social anxiety about touching children, and Māori-Pākehā educational relationships. She has authored, edited and co-authored many research articles and twelve books, including ‘He kōrero: Words between us – First Māori-Pākehā conversations on paper’ and ‘Tuai: A traveller in two worlds’. Professor Jones is a manuscript reviewer for several international journals and publishers. She has supervised more than 70 postgraduate research projects.