Associate Professor Caroline Miller (right) with David Forrest (chair of the independent consultative committee for the Resource and Environmental Planning programme also honoured as a Fellow), and Karyn Sinclair (chair of the NZPI).
Planning expert Associate Professor Caroline Miller has been made a Fellow of the New Zealand Planning Institute (NZPI) in recognition of the calibre of her work as an academic, an author and a practitioner.
Dr Miller was recognised by her peers for her academic work as a lecturer and in publishing books, articles and newspaper pieces on the practice and the history of planning, and the planning profession in New Zealand, as well as for her work for the Institute at the branch level and as a former Board member.
Her citation said; “The passion and dedication shown by Caroline towards planners, planning and the profession is outstanding.”
Dr Miller, based in School of People, Environment and Planning at the Manawatū campus where she coordinates the postgraduate planning programme, says she is; “humbled to be recognised in this way by my profession as a Fellow and gratified that my research has been recognised as contributing to a better understanding of planning in New Zealand.”
Earlier this year, she was named co-winner of the John Mawson Award of Merit for a book, Planning Practice in New Zealand, published by Lexis Nexis. A co-editor with Dr Lee Beattie, she wrote several chapters for the book – an up-to-date and broad discussion of the practical issues and challenges faced in the application of planning law in New Zealand.
She received a Distinguished Service Award from the Institute in 2007.