Rowena Cullen

Rowena Joy Cullen (née Knight; born 1946) is a New Zealand information services academic, and is professor emerita at the Victoria University of Wellington. She has published on e-government in the Pacific and health information on the internet.

Rowena Cullen
Born	Rowena Joy Knight 1946 (age 78–79)
Spouse	Michael Cullen ​ ​ (m. 1967; div. 1989)​
Awards	Fellow of LIANZA
Academic background
Alma mater	Victoria University of Wellington
Thesis	Assessing the Effectiveness of Information Services: an Evaluative Model (2001)
Academic work
Discipline	Information services
Institutions	Victoria University of Wellington

Academic career

Born in 1946,^[1] Cullen was educated at Christchurch Girls' High School,^[2] and went on to study at the University of Canterbury where she completed a Master of Arts degree in English in 1968.^[3] In 1968, she was awarded the Tytheridge travelling scholarship in arts.^[4] She then completed a Master of Letters at the University of Edinburgh, returning to New Zealand to complete a Master of Arts in librarianship and a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington (VUW).^[5][6][7] Cullen then joined the faculty of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, rising to full professor.

Cullen was appointed emeritus professor of the university on her retirement.^[7] She is or has been on the editorial board of a number of journals, including as an associate editor for the Library and Information Science Research Electronic Journal (LIBRES), and the Journal of Information Technology & Politics.^[8][9] Cullen co-chaired a session on "The Foundations of Innovation in Government Must Rest on Sound Policies, Governance Principles, Ethics, and Laws" at the 44th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences.^[10]

Cullen has written or edited several books on e-government, and health information on the internet.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Honours and awards

Cullen was elected a Fellow of LIANZA in 2007, and in 2012 was made an honorary life member.^[15][16] In 2008, she received a VUW award for research excellence.^[16]

Personal life

Cullen's parents were John and Molly Knight. In 1967, she married Michael Cullen who would later become a member of parliament.^[17] The couple had two daughters.^[18] They separated in 1987 and divorced in 1989.^[19]

Selected works

Books

• Hernon, Peter; Cullen, Rowena; Relyea, Harold C., eds. (March 2006). Comparative perspectives on e-government: serving today and building for tomorrow. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5357-7.
• Cullen, Rowena (2006). Health information on the Internet: a study of providers, quality, and users. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
• Cullen, Rowena; Hassall, Graham, eds. (2017), "E-Government in Pacific Island Countries", Achieving Sustainable E-Government in Pacific Island States, Public Administration and Information Technology, vol. 27, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 3–32, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50972-3_1, ISBN 978-3-319-50970-9

Journal

• Rowena Cullen (1 October 2001). "Addressing the digital divide". Online Information Review. 25 (5): 311–320. doi:10.1108/14684520110410517. ISSN 1468-4527. Wikidata Q128811962.
• Rowena J Cullen (1 October 2002). "In search of evidence: family practitioners' use of the Internet for clinical information". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 90 (4): 370–379. ISSN 1536-5050. PMC 128953. PMID 12398243. Wikidata Q34148527.
• Rowena Cullen; Brenda Chawner (December 2011). "Institutional Repositories, Open Access, and Scholarly Communication: A Study of Conflicting Paradigms". The Journal of Academic Librarianship. 37 (6): 460–470. doi:10.1016/J.ACALIB.2011.07.002. ISSN 0099-1333. Wikidata Q56765670.
• Rowena Cullen; Megan Clark; Rachel Esson (8 April 2011). "Evidence-based information-seeking skills of junior doctors entering the workforce: an evaluation of the impact of information literacy training during pre-clinical years". Health Information and Libraries Journal. 28 (2): 119–129. doi:10.1111/J.1471-1842.2011.00933.X. ISSN 1471-1834. PMID 21564495. Wikidata Q50629235.
• Rowena Cullen; Caroline Houghton (July 2000). "Democracy online: an assessment of New Zealand government web sites". Government Information Quarterly. 17 (3): 243–267. doi:10.1016/S0740-624X(00)00033-2. ISSN 0740-624X. Wikidata Q128811875.
• Rowena Cullen; Megan Clark; Rachel Esson (8 April 2011). "Evidence-based information-seeking skills of junior doctors entering the workforce: an evaluation of the impact of information literacy training during pre-clinical years". Health Information and Libraries Journal. 28 (2): 119–129. doi:10.1111/J.1471-1842.2011.00933.X. ISSN 1471-1834. PMID 21564495. Wikidata Q50629235.
• Rowena Cullen; Brenda Chawner (6 July 2010). "Institutional repositories: assessing their value to the academic community". Performance Measurement and Metrics. 11 (2): 131–147. doi:10.1108/14678041011064052. ISSN 1467-8047. Wikidata Q128811956.
• Cullen, Rowena; Hassall, Graham (January 2013). "An Information Ecology Approach to Sustainable E-Government among Small Island Developing States in the Pacific". 2013 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Vol. 1. IEEE. pp. 1922–1931. doi:10.1109/hicss.2013.86. ISBN 978-1-4673-5933-7.