Biography:Sylvia Rumball
Sylvia Rumball | |
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.jpg) Rumball, c. 1998 | |
| Born | Sylvia Vine Sheat 1939 (age 84–85) |
| Alma mater | University of Canterbury (MSc) University of Auckland (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Massey University |
| Thesis | Some structural investigations of copper co-ordination compounds (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Neil Waters |
Sylvia Vine Sheat Rumball CNZM (née Sheat; born 1939) is a New Zealand scientist and an international expert in scientific research ethics.
Education
Rumball completed a BSc and MSc (1962) at the University of Canterbury. She moved to the University of Auckland where she undertook a PhD in chemistry (1966),[1] supervised by Professor (later Sir) Neil Waters.[2][3]
Career
During her PhD studies, Rumball worked as a junior lecturer at the University of Auckland from 1963 to 1966. She then moved to the University of Oxford on a postdoctoral fellowship and studied protein crystallography under Dorothy Hodgkin.[2]
Rumball joined Massey University as a lecturer in 1967.[2] She was promoted to associate professor in 2000[3] and to full professor by 2005, when she was also assistant to the Vice Chancellor (Equity and Ethics) at Massey.[4] She served on the University Council from 2005 to 2008. She was appointed Professor Emeritus in July 2009,[5] officially retiring in November of the same year.[2]
To celebrate the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand, Rumball was selected as one of eight women to give graduation addresses at Massey University in 1993.[6]
From 2002 to 2011 she was chair of the National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction,[7] later known as the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART).[8] She also served on the Drug Free Sport New Zealand Board from 2007 to 2015.[9][10] Rumball also served on UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee and the International Council for Science's Committee on Freedom and Responsibility in the conduct of Science.[2]
Honours and awards
Rumball was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to science, in the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours.[11] In the 2008 New Year Honours, she was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, also for service to science.[12]
References
- ↑ Sheat, Sylvia (1966). Some structural investigations of copper co-ordination compounds (Doctoral thesis). ResearchSpace@Auckland, University of Auckland. hdl:2292/56262.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Ethicist and chemist retires after 42 years" (in en-NZ). 2009-12-18. https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=9EE8396C-96BF-57FE-A318-C7D43B710D37.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Rumball, Sylvia Vine, 1939–" (in en). 1939-01-01. https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22506329.
- ↑ "Perspectives on bioethics" (in en-NZ). 2005-05-28. https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=2D9749E3-96BF-57FE-A255-40E6D431ACAB.
- ↑ "Commemorative scrolls recognise current and new Professors Emeriti" (in en-NZ). 2009-07-01. https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=342CD6AB-96BF-57FE-A77E-D2D1DAB41313.
- ↑ McIlroy, Andrea, ed. (1994), Commemorating Women's Achievements: Graduation addresses by women in the centennial year of women's suffrage, 1993, Massey University, ISBN 978-0-908665-86-0
- ↑ "Appointments/reappointments to the National Ethics Committee on Assisted Human Reproduction". 2002-07-11. https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2002-go4659.
- ↑ "Appointment/reappointments to the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART)". 2008-09-11. https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2008-go6528.
- ↑ "Appointments/reappointment to the Drug Free Sport New Zealand Board". 2007-11-08. https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2007-au7696.
- ↑ "Appointment to the Drug Free Sport New Zealand Board". 2013-02-21. https://gazette.govt.nz/notice/id/2013-go901.
- ↑ "Queen's Birthday honours list 1998". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 1998. https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-1998.
- ↑ "New Year honours list 2008". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2007. https://www.dpmc.govt.nz/publications/new-year-honours-list-2008.
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