Alan Russell Bishop is a New Zealand academic. He is a professor of

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education at the

University of Waikato The University of Waikato ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato), is a Public university, public research university in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton, New Zealand established in 1964. An additional campus is located in Tauranga. The university perfo ...

, and the director of Te Kotahitanga, a research programme. He has a PhD from the

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. He co-authored ''Culture Counts: Changing Power Relations in Education'' () with Ted Glynn, another University of Waikato professor who had been his doctoral advisor. In the 2016 New Year Honours, Bishop 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 Māori and education.

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