Rate My Professor Annemaree Senior

Annemaree Senior holds a Master of Arts from the University of Otago, awarded in 2000 for her thesis titled 'The Spatial Outcome of State Housing Sales,' which analyzed the geographical impacts of housing policy changes in New Zealand. Earlier, she completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the same university in 1996, with her honours dissertation 'Student Rental Housing in Dunedin: A study of Intra-urban Migration,' supervised by Peter Holland of the Department of Geography. These postgraduate works demonstrate her early research interests in urban geography, housing dynamics, spatial analysis, and intra-urban migration patterns within the Dunedin context.

Since joining the University of Otago in 2001 as an eLearning Support Specialist in the Information Technology Services Division, Annemaree Senior has built a distinguished career in educational technology and IT management. Documented in successive University Calendars, her roles have evolved to include eLearning Support Manager, eLearning Manager, IT Projects Manager, and her current position as Delivery Manager in Continuous Delivery. Key contributions encompass the pivotal rollout of the Blackboard learning management system, expanding from 41 papers serving 4,600 students in August 2000 to 1,000 papers by 2005, significantly enhancing distance learning capabilities. In 2019, she managed the Student App project, leading a collaborative team from ITS and Marketing and Communications to deliver a tool that received strong positive feedback from students. Senior has also supported conferencing services and distance learning infrastructure development, as highlighted in university historical accounts. Additionally, she provided field assistance for Department of Geography research, including sample collection for studies on particulate organic matter in riverine suspended material (published 2016) and reconstructing catchment-scale denudation records (published 2023). Her work has had lasting impact on the integration of technology in teaching and research support at the University of Otago.