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Colleen Mills
Colleen Elizabeth Mills (; 2 December 1955 – 11 August 2022) was a New Zealand management academic, specialising in communication and sensemaking in times of disruption. She was a professor of management at the University of Canterbury. Biography Mills' first career was in teaching and teacher education. She did a Masters of Education, Master of Education with a thesis entitled ''The nature and variability of tertiary students' learning approaches and test outcomes when learning from text'' in 1991 before changing her career focus to organisational behaviour and completing a PhD entitled ''Taikyoku: a theory of sensemaking about workplace communication'' in 2000. Both qualifications are from the University of Canterbury where she subsequently joined the staff and rose to full professor. She was also an international faculty affiliate (FIA) at Audencia Business School in France. Mills' research examined organisational processes and stakeholders' sensemaking about these process ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1873 as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's second-oldest university, after the University of Otago, itself founded four years earlier in 1869. Its original campus was in the Christchurch Central City, but in 1961 it became an independent university and began moving out of its original neo-gothic buildings, which were re-purposed as the Christchurch Arts Centre. The move was completed on 1 May 1975 and the university now operates its main campus in the Christchurch suburb of Ilam. The university is well known for its Engineering and Science programmes, with its Civil Engineering programme ranked 9th in the world (Academic Ranking of World Universities, 2021). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
