CSPT News: New Zealand
Professor Andrew Sharp (Political Studies, Auckland) has received a Marsden Fund grant for 1999-2001 for a study of the concept of representation, illustrated with examples from Maori in public life. The grant will relieve him from one-third of his normal duties. He will be giving a paper on 'The Levellers and the end of Charles I" to a "History of Parliament" Conference in January 1999 in London.Tim Mulgan, currently in the Department of Philosophy at U. of Otago, is moving to the Department of Philosophy, U. of Auckland. Maurice Goldsmith (Philosophy, Victoria U. of Wellington) is retiring at the end of January 1999. The Department has invited him to stay on in an honorary capacity.
Stephen Gardiner has been appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury. He recently received his PhD in philosophy from Cornell University. He also holds an MA in philosophy from the University of Colorado, and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford. His interests include Ethical Theory, Applied Ethics (especially Environmental, Business and Medical Ethics), Political Philosophy, and Greek Philosophy. Maurice Goldsmith, Victoria U. of Wellington