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7 unusual facts about Victoria University of Wellington


Florin Diacu

He also held short-term visiting positions at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (1993), University of Bucharest, Romania (1998), University of Pernambuco in Recife, Brazil (1999), and The Bernoulli Institute (at EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland (2004).

Katie Wolfe

In 1986 she enrolled at Victoria University and graduated with a BA in English.

Lyell Cresswell

In 2002, Victoria University of Wellington awarded him an honorary D. Mus degree and the inaugural Elgar Bursary.

Marilyn Pryor

She attended first year chemistry classes at Victoria University of Wellington where she also served as a lab assistant, as well as an assistant dental technician to the New Zealand Medical Research Council.

Penny Jamieson

She worked at the Wellington Inner City Mission while completing her doctoral thesis at Victoria University.

Peter Kenen

In 1983-84, he was a Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University; in 1987-88, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs; in 1991-92, he held the Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England; and in 2002, he was Professorial Fellow at the Victoria University of Wellington and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

Pira Sudham

He won a New Zealand government scholarship to read English Literature at Auckland University and then Victoria University of Wellington, where his first story was published by New Zealand's leading literary quarterly Landfall.


Anne Kennedy

She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Victoria University of Wellington and taught at Trinity College London.

Doug Zohrab

He was a newspaper copyholder and junior reporter on Wellington's Evening Post newspaper from 1934, then graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a masters degree in History in 1937 and became an assistant librarian at Parliament’s General Assembly Library.

Gordon Bisson

Educated at Napier Boys’ High School, he graduated from Victoria University College, Wellington with a Bachelor of Laws in 1941.

Grant Buist

He is a graduate of Victoria University of Wellington's Theatre and Film Department, and he also studied graphic design at Massey University.

Kathryn Whaler

She has undertaken a number of sabbaticals which have given her experience of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Harvard University, the University of California at San Diego (where she was a Green Scholar), Victoria University of Wellington, and Göttingen University (as Gauss Professor), funded by the Fulbright Foundation, NASA, the Cecil H and Ida M Green Foundation, and Göttingen Academy of Sciences.

Michael Devitt

In addition to his tenured or tenure-track positions, Michael Devitt has held numerous non-tenured positions at the University of Nottingham, Macquarie University, Australian National University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Harvard University, and Sydney University’s Women’s College.

Mike Minogue

He attended Timaru Boys' High School, Silverstream College, and Victoria University.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre

The New Zealand Electronic Text Collection is a collection of the library at the Victoria University of Wellington which provides a free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials.

Pat Evison

She attended Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Auckland and the Auckland Teachers' Training College.

Paul McHugh

He graduated LL.B.(Hons I) from Victoria University of Wellington, LLM (Saskatchewan), and obtained his PhD at Cambridge with his dissertation "The aboriginal rights of the New Zealand Maori at common law" (which was awarded a Yorke Prize in 1988).

Pyne Glacier

Named after Alex Pyne, recipient of the Polar Medal for services in Antarctic geological and in particular glacial research since 1977; currently works at Victoria University's Antarctic Research Centre in Wellington.

Theresa Gattung

Gattung was educated at McKillop College, Rotorua, the University of Waikato (Bachelor of Management Studies in marketing) and Victoria University of Wellington (Bachelor of Laws)

William Tolhurst

He received his education from Masterton West School, Wanganui Collegiate School, Victoria University of Wellington, and Otago University, and he gained an FCA (Fellow of Chartered Accountants) and a BCom.


see also

George Hughes

George Edward Hughes (1918–1994), professor of philosophy at the Victoria University of Wellington

Michael Kruse

Michael Kruse (F. Michael) (born 1948), LL.B (Victoria University of Wellington), MCL (George Washington) is the Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa.

Steve Oh

Born in Penang, Malaysia, Oh studied at Penang Free School and graduated with a Business degree major in Accountancy from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Terence Arnold

He taught criminal law at Victoria University of Wellington as well as at several Canadian universities, including Dalhousie University and the University of Calgary.