Alison Kay Morris Matthews

Alison Kay Morris Matthews is a New Zealand academic education researcher, and is emeritus professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, specialising in community history, education, and women and children's issues.

Academic career

Morris Matthews was born in Hamilton, and was educated at Dannevirke High School and Colenso High School (now William Colenso College) in Napier. Her sister is lawyer Joanne Morris. She earned a Bachelor of Education and a Master of Education at the University of Waikato. Morris Matthews worked as a secondary school teacher and then lectured in women's studies at the University of Waikato. Morris Matthews then moved to the Eastern Institute of Technology as Research Professor. She served on the national executive of the New Zealand Council for Research in Education, and has been a justice of the peace since 1985. Notable doctoral students of Morris Matthews include Anne Else and Alice Pollard.

On her retirement from the Eastern Institute of Technology in 2021, Morris Matthews was appointed emeritus professor. Morris Matthews wrote the exhibition For Home and Country: Women’s Institutes in Hawke’s Bay, which was shown at MTG Hawke's Bay in 2021, to celebrate the centenary of the founding of Women's Institutes in New Zealand. The exhibition also marked the re-opening of the museum after its closure.

Selected works

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Journal articles