Robin Peace is a social scientist from New Zealand. In 2018 she was appointed a Companion of the

Royal Society Te Apārangi The Royal Society Te Apārangi (in full, Royal Society of New Zealand) is a not-for-profit body in New Zealand providing funding and policy advice in the fields of sciences and the humanities. These fundings (i.e., Marsden grants and research fe ...

for her contribution to the promotion and advancement of the social sciences in New Zealand.

Life

Peace completed a PhD at the

University of Waikato The University of Waikato (), established in 1964, is a Public university, public research university located in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university performs research in nume ...

in 1999, titled ''Surface tension: Place/poverty/policy: From "poverty" to "social exclusion": Implications of discursive shifts in European Union poverty policy, 1975-1999''. In 2006 Peace joined

Massey University Massey University () is a Public university, public research university in New Zealand that provides internal and distance education. The university has campuses in Auckland, Palmerston North, and Wellington. Data from Universities New Zealand ...

's College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is the director of eSocSci, Hui Rangahou Tahi, New Zealand's national e-network of social scientists. She is a leader for the Aotearoa New Zealand Evaluation Association, which educates evaluators. Notable students include Lynda Johnston. Peace has served on a number of committees concerned with the social sciences, including the New Zealand National Commission for

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, the Marsden Fund's Social Sciences Panel, the

Rutherford Discovery Fellowship The Rutherford Discovery Fellowships are an annual science fellowship in New Zealand. The fellowships, established in 2010, are administered by the Royal Society Te Apārangi through a competitive process. Ten fellowships are awarded nationally. T ...

panel, and has represented the Royal Society Te Apārangi on the

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, and the working group that developed the

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