Rate My Professor Jayashree Panjabi

In 1998, Panjabi joined Otago Museum as Exhibitions and Community Programmes Manager, followed by coordinating the Television, Theatre and Radio course at Aoraki Polytechnic in 2000. From 2002, she served as Senior Producer at Natural History New Zealand in Dunedin, producing documentaries like 'Wild Secrets' (2002), multiple 'Megastructures' episodes including 'World’s Smart Tower,' and 'China Circus' (2007), distributed internationally on channels such as National Geographic, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, and NHK. Transitioning to higher education administration in 2012, she worked nearly six years as Enterprise Manager in the University of Otago's Research and Enterprise office. She subsequently managed the Enterprise team in the Research Office at Victoria University of Wellington before assuming the role of Operations Manager for Genomics Aotearoa, hosted in the Department of Biochemistry within the Health Sciences division at the University of Otago, where she contributed to its business case development. Panjabi co-authored the 2015 publication 'Can a Short Intensive Course Affect Entrepreneurial Ability, Knowledge and Intent, or Further Entrepreneurial Study? An Assessment of the SEED Programme, Dunedin, New Zealand' alongside colleagues from Otago institutions. She also serves as a Justice of the Peace associated with the University of Otago.