Sonia Mazey (born 1958) is a New Zealand political science academic. She is listed as adjunct Professor of Public Policy at the University of Canterbury (UC) and former Pro-Vice Chancellor, UC business and Law (2012–20).

Biography

Mazey was raised in

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, England, and earned her BA (Hons) in Social Sciences from

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in 1979. At

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in 1985, she was granted her PhD with her dissertation titled '''The theory and practice of the 1972 French regional reform 1972–1980, with special reference to Brittany: an example of incremental decision making''', under her supervisor, Vincent Wright. Mazey held senior academic and management positions at Brunel, Cambridge and Oxford Universities. In 2008, after a family vacation to New Zealand, Mazey relocated, with her husband and two children, to

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, New Zealand and she joined the faculty at the

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. Her first job there was as Lecturer, but she progressed through the university ranks to Academic Manager and Dean before she was named Pro-Vice-Chancellor. She is a Board Director of the Asia Pacific Student Accommodation Association (APSAA) and former Chair of the Universities New Zealand Vice Chancellors' Sub-Committee for University Student Pastoral Care (CUSPaC). Mazey work includes a publication on New Zealand's public policy: Sonia Mazey and Jeremy Richardson (eds), ''Policy-making under Pressure: Rethinking the Policy process in Aotearoa New Zealand'' (Canterbury University Press, 2021).

Selected works

Mazey has researched politics and public policy in the European Union. * Mazey, Sonia, and Jeremy John Richardson, eds. Lobbying in the European community. Oxford University Press, 1993. * Mazey, Sonia, and Jeremy Richardson. "Interest groups and EU policy-making." European Union: Power and Policy-Making, Nueva York, Routledge (2006): 247–265. * Mazey, Sonia. "The European Union and women's rights: from the Europeanization of national agendas to the nationalization of a European agenda?." Journal of European Public Policy 5, no. 1 (1998): 131–152. * Mazey, Sonia. "Introduction: Integrating gender-intellectual and 'real world' mainstreaming." (2000): 333–345. * Mazey, Sonia, and Jeremy Richardson. "The Commission and the lobby." The European Commission (1994): 169–201.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazey, Sonia Living people 1958 births New Zealand women academics Academic staff of the University of Canterbury New Zealand political scientists New Zealand women political scientists Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford