Governance & Management
The NZPsS is governed by an elected Executive consisting of a president, president-elect, six directors and a kaumatua. The Society is managed by an executive director and supported by staff in the National Office. The NZPsS Rules (PDF) underpin the governance of the NZPsS. Click to view the Past Presidents of the New Zealand Psychological Society NZPsS Executive
President: Frank O'Connor
President Elect: Peter Coleman
Director of Scientific Affairs: Dr Mei Williams
Director of Professional Affairs: Joanne Cunningham
Director of Social Issues: Iris Fontanilla
Director of Professional Development & Training: Dr Kerry Gibson
Directors of Bicultural Issues: Waikaremoana Waitoki
Rose Black Kaihautu: Angus Hikairo Macfarlane
Executive Director
Executive Director: Dr Pamela Hyde  President: Frank O'Connor
Frank O'Connor works as a consultant to many commercial, government and community organisations, assisting better use of the talents of people and increasing the effectiveness of purposeful relationships among them. He has applied psychological research to practical situations in many countries across the Asia-Pacific region, working with various groups to help them do more with what they have. A member of the Industrial and Organisational Division, he served as their chair for five years and has been a member of the NZPsS since 1986. 
President-Elect: Peter Coleman Peter worked as an educational psychologist within the Department of Education and now Ministry of Education from the early 1970's until 2009, with the last 15 years part time. He then moved into full-time private practice specialising in Family Court and child protection work. Peter was Director of Social Issues for the NZPsS and is now President-Elect.  Director of Scientific Affairs: Dr Mei Williams
Mei has been a member of the Society since 1997. She has been active at both the local and national level of the Society, and was a member of the Supervision Review Panel. Mei is trained as a clinical psychologist and worked for a number of years in the Dept of Corrections and other mental health agencies. She is currently employed at Massey University as a lecturer and is the coordinator of the clinical psychology training programme at Albany. Her research interests are in criminal justice and clinical psychology.
 Director of Professional Affairs: Joanne Cunningham
Joanne has been a member of NZPsS since her student days. She has been active in the Society at branch level particularly in coordinating professional development and training. Joanne brings to her Executive role knowledge gained from a long work history as an educational psychologist and a private practitioner. She has also worked in Family Court and child protection and is active in traumatic incident team support for schools. 
Director of Social Issues: Iris FontanillaIris is a registered psychologist specialising in health psychology. She currently works in Cardiac Services and New Zealand Heart Lung Transplant Service at Auckland District Health Board and in private practice in Auckland. Iris is an honorary lecturer at the Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland where she is involved in training and supervision of pre-intern health psychology students and health psychology interns. She is a full member of the Society where she holds the Chair of the Institute of Health Psychology. Iris specialises in resilience, stress management, and long-term conditions management.  Director of Professional Development and Training: Dr Kerry Gibson
Kerry is a member of the Institute of Clinical Psychology and the Institute of Counselling Psychology. She has many years of experience in academic teaching as well as hands-on experience as a clinical supervisor and a practitioner. In addition to her clinical focus , Kerry has strong interests in the fields of community psychology, organisational psychology and health psychology and contributes to these areas through her academic writing and work with community-based organisations. Kerry is a senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Auckland. Directors of Bicultural Issues  Waikaremoana Waitoki (MSocSc, PGDipPsych(Clin) Waikato
Ko pukemokemoke te maunga, ko Waitoki te marae, ko waihou te awa, ko Ngāti Paoa te iwi. (Hamilton) Waikaremoana has been a member since 1998. Waikaremoana is the co-convenor of the NSCBI and the Director of Bicultural Issues on the NZPsS Executive. She is completing PhD research focusing on the development of cultural competency training programmes. She is a clinical psychologist with work and research interests in adult mental health, supervision, child and adolescent mental health, and addictions. Waikaremoana has a blended family. Her family speak Māori, Swedish, German, Spanish, and Portuguese and are actively involved in either kura kaupapa Māori and whare wānanga. She is also a yudansha in kyokushin.  Rose Black
Rose is a community psychologist and member of the NSCBI since 1994 when she co-authored a research report on bicultural development in the NZPsS in 1995. She is a registered psychologist and community psychology programme associate at the University of Waikato. Rose was active in setting up the Institute of Community Psychology Aotearoa and is a current member. Her current PhD research focused on discourses that mark Pākehā culture. She is currently the lead researcher in a project looking at issues of poverty in the Waikato region. 
Kaihautu: Angus Hikairo Macfarlane Angus Hikairo Macfarlane is of the Te Arawa waka and its confederate tribes in the central north island of New Zealand. The thrust of his activities is concerned with the exploration of cultural concepts and strategies that affect positively on professional practice, from which numerous publications have emanated. He has presented papers on culturally responsive educational approaches for improving motivation and learning, throughout the world. In 2003 Dr Macfarlane was awarded the inaugural Research Fellowship by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. In 2004 his landmark book, Kia hiwa ra! Listen to culture - Māori students' plea to educators, was published. That same year he was a recipient of a Tohu Kairangi award, a citation for academic achievement in Māori education. His next book, Discipline, Democracy and Diversity, was published in August 2007. In December 2010 Dr Macfarlane was presented with the Tohu Pae Tawhiti Award, acknowledging his significant contribution to Māori research over a notable period of time. In 2011 his edited book on Restorative Pedagogies was published. Dr Macfarlane is Professor in Māori Research at the University of Canterbury. 
Executive Director: Dr Pamela HydePamela joined the Society as its Executive Director in 2007 and is responsible for the management of the organisation. She has a background in education, management and consultancy in the health/education sector. She was national director of stage one and postgraduate rural general practice education for the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners for a number of years and has held positions at the University of Otago and the Central Institute of Technology. Contact Us
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