Allison Kirkman

Allison Margaret Kirkman is a New Zealand sociology academic with interests in 'death and dying; gender, sexuality, ageing and health; health care work and workers.' In 2014 she was appointed the Vice Provost (Academic and Equity) at Victoria University of Wellington before moving to become Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Division of Arts, Law, Psychology and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato.^[1][2] She was made an Emeritus Professor at the University of Waikato in 2022 in recognition of her work to set up a nursing programme at the university.^[3]

Kirkman's 1996 PhD thesis was on Ways of Being Religious: Lesbians and Christianity.^[4]

Selected publications

• Allison Kirkman. Health practitioners, Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 9 November 2012
• Allison Kirkman and Pat Moloney eds. Sexuality Down Under Social and Historical Perspectives Otago University Press 2006 ISBN 1 877372 10 2^[5][6]
• Kevin Dew and Allison Kirkman Sociology of health in New Zealand Oxford University Press 2002. ISBN 0-195584-54-6.^[7]