| Roger Field | |||||||||||||
| Birth Name: | Roger John Field | ||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 5 July 1946 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Birmingham, England | ||||||||||||
| Nationality: | New Zealander | ||||||||||||
| Workplaces: | Lincoln University | ||||||||||||
| Field: | Plant science | ||||||||||||
| Alma Mater: | University of Hull | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Title: | The movement of plant growth regulators and herbicides | ||||||||||||
| Thesis Year: | 1970 | ||||||||||||
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Roger John Field (born 5 July 1946) is a retired New Zealand plant scientist and university administrator. He served as the vice-chancellor of Lincoln University from 2004 to 2012.
Born in Birmingham, England, on 5 July 1946,[1] Field completed a joint honours degree in botany and zoology at the University of Hull, and a PhD in plant science, also at Hull.[2] The title of his doctoral thesis was The movement of plant growth regulators and herbicides.[3]
Field was appointed as a lecturer in plant science at Lincoln College (now Lincoln University) in 1970,[2] and became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1977.[1] He rose to become professor of plant science in 1986.[2] In April 2004, he was appointed vice-chancellor, retiring in 2012.[2] [4] He was Lincoln University’s third vice-chancellor and the 10th head of the institution since it was founded in 1878. He also served as the chair of the New Zealand Vice-Chancellors’ Committee, and was a council member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.[2]
In the 2013 New Year Honours, Field was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to education and land-based industries.[5]