Meet our Deputy Deans
Learn more about Andrew Patterson, Deputy Dean, and Associate Professor Helen Delaney, Acting Deputy Dean.
Andrew joined the Faculty in 2014 as a Professional Teaching Fellow in the Department of Management and International Business. His specialist areas are negotiation, conflict resolution, general management, and teaching and learning. He is in his 19th year working in tertiary education. Andrew has served in various service and leadership capacities including as Associate Dean Faculty and the University’s Academic Lead and Programme Board member on QS Future17 – an international sustainable development goals challenge involving multiple universities.
He is the recipient of a QS-Wharton Reimagine Education Award, three University of Auckland Business School teaching excellence awards, and has been invited to share his work on negotiation teaching and integrating virtual reality into business curricula and participate in various forums including at Renmin University of China, Beijing, and Harvard Law School. He has published work on negotiation, employment relations, and teaching and learning in local and international journals.
Outside of the university Andrew has contributed to the education and professional accreditation portfolio of the Arbitrators’ and Mediators’ Institute of New Zealand. He delivers negotiation seminars, training, and consultation across several contexts, and has advocated on behalf of workers and employers through formal dispute resolution processes.
Helen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management and International Business.
Her research centres on the critical study of work and organisations, spanning workplace democracy, organisational power and politics, and identity at work, supported by prestigious funding from the Royal Society of New Zealand (Marsden Fast Start) and international bodies including Vetenskapsrådet and Hans-Böckler-Stiftung. Helen serves as Associate Editor of the European Management Journal, and her work has featured in leading outlets including Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, Times Higher Education, and BBC News. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate students in the critical study of work and organisations and qualitative research methods.
Helen holds a PhD from the University of Auckland and undertook a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Lund University, Sweden.