ROBERT SHAW

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Home:
43 Eskdale Road
Papakowhai
Porirua City
NEW ZEALAND

Business:
Senior Lecturer in business management
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Private Bag 31-914
Lower Hutt
NEW ZEALAND

Councillor:
Porirua City Council
Private Bag
Porirua City
NEW ZEALAND

Telephone:
+64 4 233 0252 (office phonefax)

Email:
robert@porirua.net

Skype:
orchard.downs

Website:
www.robertshaw.orcon.net.nz

Blog:
www.porirua.net

PARTICULAR SKILLS

Personal skills:
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- A commitment to a collegial and democratic management style
- Knowledge of, and comfort in, bicultural settings
- Approachable - gets on well with a wide variety of people

Professional skills:
- Teaching ability
- Governance processes
- Research design and management
- E-learning

PRESENT EMPLOYMENT

From 1994 -
Senior Lecturer in Management
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand
Teach business management, applied management, and business ethics courses in the business degree. Teach the “Executive Decision-Making Skills” short course. Research about the local government sector, governance models, research methodology, Continental philosophy (Kant, Heidegger, Cassirer), course development projects. (0.5 appointment)

From 2003 –
Manager
Distance Education Unit
The National Observatory of New Zealand (The Carter Observatory)
Established three unit standards in astronomy, and a web site to teach and assess these standards.
Obtained NZQA registration and accreditation for the organisation.
This project was established when I was a member of the board of the Carter Observatory.
Four staff.
(part-time)

1992 – 1998
2001- present
Elected councillor
Porirua City Council
Various roles, currently Chairperson City Services Committee
(part-time)

EDUCATION

1961 - 1966 Mt Albert Grammar School, Auckland
1967 - 1969 Massey University
1970 - 1971 University of Auckland, & Secondary Teachers’ College
1972 - 1976 University of Auckland (part-time)
1979 - 1980 Griffith University, Brisbane (part-time)
1981 - 1983 Victoria University of Wellington (part-time)
2004 - The University of Auckland (full-time)

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science
University of Auckland, 1971
Physics, Biometrics, Ecology

Bachelor of Arts
University of Auckland, 1974
Psychology, Statistics

Master of Philosophy (First Class Honours)
University of Auckland, 1976
Papers: Philosophy (2), Social Science Research Methodology,
Evaluation Methodology
Thesis: Assessing Components of Morality a conceptual and empirical study

Master of Public Policy
Graduate School of Business & Government Management
Victoria University of Wellington, 1985
Papers: Economics, Administrative Law,
Research paper on management Information
Research paper on management planning
Thesis: The concept of the public interest in New Zealand’s Official Information Act

Teachers College Certificate
Auckland Secondary Teachers College, 1971
Physics & biology

Diploma in Teaching
New Zealand Department of Education, 1972

Certificate in Judicial Studies
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, 1995
Legal decision-making, taking evidence, application of the principles of natural justice, drafting judicial decisions, and court protocols.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS

1972-1974 Biology Master
Hillary College, Otara, South Auckland
Teaching form 3 to form 7. Sport and cultural activities.

1975 Tutor in Educational Psychology
University of Auckland.

1976 Lecturer in Education
Claremont Teachers College, Perth, West Australia
Lecturing in education and philosophy. Empirical research on teachers’ perceptions of their training.

1977-1979 Lecturer in Education
University of Southern Queensland
Lecturing on philosophy of education, philosophy of science, educational administration. Supervision of student research. Member of the Board of Studies (deputy chairman, 1987-88) and a course accreditation committee for a postgraduate award in public administration.

1980 Head of Physics
Waiuku College, South Auckland
Management of a department. Teaching physics and mathematics form 3 to
form 7.

1980 - 1983 Senior Manager (Research programme)
Research and Statistics Division
Department of Education, Wellington.
Management of the department’s contract social science research programme: priority setting, designing research projects, and work programmes for Ministerial approval; negotiation of contracts with universities and commercial providers, design of new policy evaluations; assessment of research proposals (including the use of referees); the integration of research into policy development. Responsible for accounts officer, project and programme budgets. The programme was the largest social science research fund in New Zealand. Practical experience with a wide range of research methodologies, and project management situations.

1984 Senior Programme Manager
Management Development Division
New Zealand State Services Commission
Wellington
The brief was to establish a training course for the top management to improve their performance with the Ombudsman and the administrative division of the High Court. Project design, project management (including the recruitment of a team)
and the establishing of external evaluations. Project teams, drawn from Police, health, Education, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Fisheries, and from companies the Fletcher Challenge group, developed a model of decision-making and rehearsed the course.

1985-1989 Education Officer (Development)
Qualifications and Assessment Division
Department of Education
Responsible for the operational management of School Certificate and Sixth Form Certificate and advice on student assessment, awards policy.
Responsible for staff at variable numbers including field staff in thirteen districts (about 120 people). Advice to statutory boards including the Board of Studies, School Certificate Examination Board, and tertiary education authorities. Managed a think tank on restructuring senior secondary school awards.

1989- 1990 Senior Policy Advisor
Policy Division,
Ministry of Education
Responsible for advice following the restructuring of educational administration. Evaluation of policy and research proposals. Management
of evaluation research. The division worked through multi-disciplinary teams. Projects dealt with resource efficiency, funding and economics (including school funding formulae), organisational structures and management issues in all education sectors.

1990 1992 Senior Policy Advisor
Policy Division
Ministry of Research, Science and Technology
Advice on all aspects of science policy:
- technology research
- legislation
- the objectives and framework for government funding
- funding mechanisms for science and technology research
- research in support of policy advice
- priority setting.
Written and oral advice to Chief Executive, Ministers, Cabinet Committees and Parliamentary Select Committees. Ministerial support (including draft speech notes, Cabinet papers, briefings attendance at meetings).
Negotiation with organizations, particularly government departments, the Royal Society of New Zealand, statutory research organizations. Liaison with Ombudsman, Crown Law, and Parliamentary Counsel.
Specific projects included:
- chaired inter-departmental working party on policy research
- managed two science funding reviews across all government departments
- legislation for the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology
- managed a review of the Royal Society of New Zealand Act, 1965
- advice on the Technology for Business Growth Scheme
- advice on intellectual property rights.

1992 - 1993 Senior Advisor
Health Strategic Planning and Policy Division
Ministry of Health
Financial forecasts of the health benefit and provider subsidies that cost over $1.2 billion per annum. Co-ordination of the Estimates
forecasts produced by a team of forecasters and including pharmaceuticals, the general medical subsidy, maternity expenditure,
geriatric hospitals funding, and laboratory tests.

1997 - 2001 Partner Ecological Research Associates of New Zealand Incorporated.
ERANZ is a private research organization with 9 biological and social scientists. Clients are private companies, government departments, local authorities, health providers, and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology. Services include business development plans, management training, and policy analysis, biological and social science research.

1998 - 2001 Elected councillor, Greater Wellington - the Regional Council
Member of the Policy and Finance Committee, Deputy chairperson, Utility Services Committee. Extensive work on the ownership of nine companies, including the Port of Wellington, ownership of a commuter rail business.

2003 Visiting Scholar: Glasgow University
Educational Policy
Two-month period of intensive research into local government functioning and constitutions.
Presentation of seminars on citizenship, the liberal concept of democracy, and the European community.

2006 Visiting Scholar: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Educational Policy Studies
Two-month period of intensive research into:
- local government
- Heideggerian models of truth and management.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Philosophy and Social Science:

Toulmin’s Model of Evolution. Papers presented to the Ninth Annual
Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasian, Perth
1978.

Moral Education: Theory and Practice (study guide), Department of
External Studies, Darling Downs Institute, Queensland 1978.

The Challenge of Pluralism (study guide), Department of External Studies
Darling Downs Institute, Queensland 1979.

Upon Toulmin’s Interlude. Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education
Society of Australasian, Conference, Brisbane August 1979.

Moral Education in new Zealand. Moral Education, Vol. 9, pp. 23-35, 1978.

(With Robert Lingard) Empirical Study of Teaching Styles in Queensland
Primary Schools 1978-1980. Two volume report to the Darling Downs
Institute, Toowoomba, 1980.

V-S-R Models in Technology and Science. Philosophy of Education
Society of Australasian Queensland Branch Conference, Toowoomba, 1978,
Policy Development and Public Administration.

(With Roger Osborne) The Challenges Raised by the Realities of Present
Day Science Education. National Symposium: Education About Science,
Victoria University of Wellington, September 3-5 1982.

Science Policy: The Justification of a Social Science Research
programme. NZ Association for Research in Education Conference, 10
December 1983.

Department of Education Research Report 198081. New Zealand Department
of Education, Wellington, 1981.

Department of Education Research Report 198182. New Zealand Department
of Education, Wellington 1982.

Science Policy: Choice Among Incommensurables and Problems of
Justification. New Zealand Science Review, Vol. 49(2), pp 26-32, 1983.

Submission to the Social Services Parliamentary Select Committee: The
Children and Young Persons Bill, 24 March 1988.

(With Monte Ohia) Te Reo O Te Taitokerau: He Tirohanga Na Nga Kaimahi
Proceedings of the First Research into Educational Policy Conference,
New Zealand Council for Educational Research, August 1988.

The Public Interest: A Concept in New Zealand’s Official Information Act
1982. Public Sector Research Paper, New Zealand Institute of Public
Administration, 1989.

Submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee: School Trustees Bill,
12 January 1989. Witness before the committee, 14 February 1989.

Submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee: Education Bill, 18
August 1989. Witness before the committee, 23 August 1989.

Submission to the Parliamentary Select Committee: Education Bill, 18
August 1989. Witness before the committee, 23 August 1989.

Issues in Achievement Based Assessment the 11th Annual Conference in
New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Wellington 2 December
1989.

Purchasing Science: New Zealands Science Policy. Ministry of Research,
Science and Technology, 6 December 1990.

Stipulative Definitions in Science Policy. Ministry of Research, Science
and Technology, 30 October 1990.

The Classification of Research Currently Classified as Operational
Research, Vols. 1 to 4. Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, 14
February 1991.

Government Funding of Social Science Research. Paper presented to the
New Zealand Association for Research in Education Conference, 29
November 1991.

The Legislative Responsibilities of the Minister for Research, Science
and Technology. Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, February 1993.

Definitions in Policy Development. State Sector, July 1994

Submission to the Electoral Reform Parliamentary Select Committee: Local
Government STV Bill, 3 January 1996, oral presentation 6 March 1996.

Management and public policy:

Toulmin’s Concept of a Discipline and the Nature of Education
Administration. New Zealand Association for Research in Education
Conference, Hamilton, 1982.

Administrative Decision-Making. New Zealand Association for Research
in Education Conference Proceedings, Christchurch, 1982.

Beginning the Administrative Decision-Making Project. Step, November 1983.

Administrative Discretionary Justice. Public Sector, Vol.8, pp. 1926,
1985.

Executive Decision-Making for Senior Officials: The Model, New Zealand
State Services Commission, Wellington, July 1985.

Administrative Decision-Making for Middle Managers, New Zealand State
Services Commission, Wellington, November 1985.

The Development and Trials of a Decision-Making Model: an Evaluation.
(with James Marshall and Michael Peters) Evaluation Review, Vol. 10, No.
1, pp.5-27, February 1986.

(With M. Peters and J. Marshall) Administrative Discretionary Justice:
A report on the Development of a Model of Decision-Making. Public
Administration, Vol. 64 pp. 453-459, winter 1986.

Issues in Achievement Based Assessment: Sixth Form Certificate
Moderation Trials. (with Michael Peters, John Codd, Don McAlpine,
Eleanor McKay, Alison Gilmore). Paper presented at the NZARE 11th Annual
conference, CIT, Wellington, 30 November 3 December 1989

Submission to the Government Administration Parliamentary Select
Committee: The State Sector Bill. 17 February 1988. Witness before the
committee, 8 March 1988.

(Chairperson) Better Research for Government: report of the working part
on operational social policy research. Ministry of Research, Science and
Technology, 30 August 1990.

PCs Selecting the Right Technique for Training. Communication Comment,
4 May 1995.

Critical Reviews of Training Materials. Communication Comment, 6 July 1995

Communicating through a training broker. Communication Comment, 5 June 1995.

Box Methodology in Systems Analysis: An example with a business known to
us all. The Open Polytechnic Research Seminar, September 1995.

Design Databases and Drive Microsoft Access. Learning Guides Publishers, 1996.

Student Notes and Workbook: Business Applications. Whitireia Community
Polytechnic, Porirua City, 18 November 1997.

Lets teach Managers how to implement policy: Report on the Executive
Decision-Making Skills Project of 21 December 1999, Open Polytechnic
of New Zealand.

Plugging the training gap (with Chris Burns). New Zealand Local
Government. June 2000, Vol. 36, No. 6, pp. 12 13.

And Having Made a Decision (with Chris Burns). People & Performance,
June 2000, Vol 8, No.1, pp. 24 25.Corporate Conscience. Journal of the
Society of Local Government Managers, July 2000, pp 11 24.

Executive Decision-Making (with Chris Burns) Refereed proceedings of the
ANZAM Conference, December 2001.

Performance Management from a Perspective of Local Government and
Council Owned Companies. Proceedings of the Strategic Performance
Measures conference, Institute for International Research, Wellington.
19 June 2001.

How To Govern a School: The tricycle model. Learning Guides. December 2002.

How we shall cease power: New Zealand’s Neo-Liberal Revolution in Public
Administration and the Governance of Schools. Proceedings of the
ANZAMIFSAM VIth International Congress, Brisbane July 10 13, 2002.

How would you teach ethics to Eichmann: reply to Meades and Weaver.
Practical Ethics, 2003

The Enlightenment Concept of Citizenship, Rights and Governance in
Modern and Postmodern States, Global Citizenship: Global Citizenship
Project Conference, University of Glasgow, 2003.

The Black Hole Theory of Teaching: The Future of Assessment and Course Delivery
in New Zealand Secondary Schools. Paper presented at the New Zealand Post Primary
Teachers' Association Conference: Charting the Future, Wellington, 18-20 April 2004.

Towards a Heideggerian Pedagogy. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Conference
of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Melbourne, 26-28 November, 2004.

Heidegger’s Concept of Truth at Work in Western Schools: Building an Ontological Model of Truth
and Describing Truth in the Life of the Student. Proceedings of the 34rd Annual Conference of the
Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Hong Kong, 24-27 November, 2005.

Marshall - Making Wittgenstein Smile. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37(3), 397-405, 2006

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Amateur Operators Certificate, Grades 1, 11 and 111, New Zealand Post
Office.15 May 1974 and 18 June 1975.
Amateur Radio Station Licence ZL 1BMD, ZL1AVM, VK6SY, VK4SD.

Member of the Auckland Branch of the Ornithological Society of New
Zealand: 1970 - 1975.

Commanding Officer, Hillary College Sea Cadet Unit: 1973- 1976

Hockey Referee 1972 - 1984

Queensland Council for Civil Liberties (Toowoomba Branch): 1978 - 1981.

Elected to the Porirua City Social Justice Unit , funded by the
Methodist and Presbyterian Churches), elected Secretary: 1974 - 1985.

Pukerua Bay Kindergarten Committee: 1984 - 1985.

Communications Officer, National Civil Defence Headquarters: 1982 - 1989.

Elected to the Wellington Archdiocese Synod, Catholic Church of New
Zealand: 1988 - 1989.

Pukerua Bay School Council: 1987 - 1989.

Parish Pastoral Council, St Theresas Parish, Plimmerton: 1988 - 1989.

Kapiti District Chess Representative: 1989 - 1992

Pukerua Bay Residents Association executive: 1991 - 1994.

Mayoral Candidate, Porirua City, runner-up with 3,849 votes, 14 October 1995, again 2004

Member of the Wellington city and Porirua City Joint Services Committee
(1992 - 1994)

Honorary Ranger, appointed under the Reserves Act 1977: 1993 -

Justice of the Peace for New Zealand: Appointed by Her Excellency The Governor-General, 19 June 1993

Member of the Wellington Justices of the Peace Association: 1993 -

Member of the Council of the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand (largest education provider in New Zealand): Appointed for 1994, elected 1995 - 1998

Member of the Mana Community Arts Council, 1995

Rotary Club of Kapi-Mana, July 1995 - 1999

Member of the Business Development Society (Porirua), 1995 – 1998
Member Business Porirua 1998 - present
Forest and Bird Protection Society, Mana Branch, 1996 - present

Porirua City Council, Northern Ward Councilor, October 2001 - 2006.

Parents’ representative, Board of Trustees, Aotea College, Porirua City, 2001 - 2003
Chairperson of the Policy Committee, Aotea College, 2001 - 2003.

Elected member of Greater Wellington – The Regional Council, 1998 - 2001

Porirua City representative, Wellington Regional Land Transport
Committee. From October 2002 – present

Appointed by the Minister of Research, Science and Technology to the Board of the National Observatory of New Zealand (The Carter Observatory), 1998 - 2004