Rate My Professor Cheryl Norrie

Cheryl Norrie is the Communications Adviser (Wellington) at the University of Otago. She works part-time providing communications for the University of Otago, Wellington, which is part of the Division of Health Sciences. The Wellington campus includes the Faculty of Medicine – Wellington, one of three component schools that make up the Faculty of Medicine. Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Canterbury.

A highly experienced print media journalist, Cheryl began her career at the Gore Ensign and the Otago Daily Times. She worked as a reporter at the Manawatu Evening Standard, Nelson Mail, and The Press. Her work has been published in a wide range of newspapers and magazines, including the Dominion Post, the science journal Nature Biotechnology, and the Australian Journal of Pharmacy. More recently, she has been writing for the Dominion Post's advertising supplements department and covering New Zealand affairs for the German Press Agency (DPA). Prior to joining the University of Otago, Cheryl was a communications adviser at the Ministry of Health. In 2008, she joined the University of Otago, Wellington, as a communications adviser in the Department of Public Health.