Present Job：

• Vice Chancellor and President, The University of Auckland
• Chair, Research Committee, Universities New Zealand
• Deputy Chair and Board Director, Research Australia
• Chair, Association of Pacific Rim Universities
• Adjunct Clinical Professor of Mental Health, Medical School, University of Western Australia
• Professor of Mental Health, University of Leeds

Areas of Expertise：

• Nursing, Mental Health, Forensic Mental Health, Psychological Therapies Research, Clinical Psychology, and Offender Health Research

Education：

• Ph.D., School of Nursing, University of Nottingham

• Professor Freshwater is a globally recognised leader, having worked in world-class universities for almost two decades. She became the University of Auckland’s first female Vice-Chancellor in March 2020, after serving at the University of Western Australia as Vice-Chancellor and Chair of the Go8 in Australia. She is Chair for Asia Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Steering Committee, and Presidential Champion for the Asia Pacific Women in Leadership (APWiL), Deputy Chair of Research Australia, Chair of Universities New Zealand Research Committee, and recent Chair of World University Network (WUN). Dawn has been elected to the Academia Europaea (MAE), is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland (FRCSI) and Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (FRCN). She was listed in the top 2% of researchers in Stanford-Elsevier List 2024 in Public Health, Clinical Psychology and Nursing.