Professor Michael Powell

B Arts, M Arts (Hons), PhD

Pro Vice Chancellor (Business)

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Biography

Michael Powell graduated from the University of Auckland with B Arts and M Arts (Hons) degrees in History. He trained as a teacher and taught at Auckland Grammar School before travelling to the USA where he held a Fellowship at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1979. From 1979 to 1982, Michael was Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation at Chicago, engaged in studies of the professional organisations of lawyers. In 1982, he graduated with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.

From 1982 to 1988, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continued his studies of the sociology and social organisation of the professions. In 1989 he took up a position at the University of Auckland, where he became Professor of Public Sector Management and Deputy Dean of the Business School.

Research expertise

• Health Management
• Changing Management Structures of Public Sector and Health Organisations
• Managing with Professionals
• The design of Professional Organisations and Practices
• Public Sector