Roger John Field (born 5 July 1946) is a retired New Zealand plant scientist and university administrator. He served as the

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of Lincoln University from 2004 to 2012.

Career

Born in

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, England, on 5 July 1946, Field completed a joint honours degree in

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and

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at the

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, and a

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in plant science, also at Hull. The title of his doctoral thesis was ''The movement of plant growth regulators and herbicides''. Field was appointed as a lecturer in plant science at Lincoln College (now Lincoln University) in 1970, and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1977. He rose to become professor of plant science in 1986. In April 2004, he was appointed vice-chancellor, retiring in 2012. He was Lincoln University’s third vice-chancellor and the 10th head of the institution since it was founded in 1878. He also served as the chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, and was a council member of the

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Honours

In the

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, Field was appointed an

Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have rend ...

, for services to education and land-based industries.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Field, Roger 1946 births Living people Lincoln University (New Zealand) faculty Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit Scientists from Birmingham, West Midlands Alumni of the University of Hull English emigrants to New Zealand Naturalised citizens of New Zealand Plant physiologists 20th-century New Zealand botanists