Harlene Hayne
Vada Harlene Hayne CNZM (born 1961/1962) is an American-born academic administrator who was the vice-chancellor and a professor of psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand,[1] before moving to Western Australia to take up the position of vice-chancellor at Curtin University in April 2021.[2]
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Born | Vada Harlene Hayne 1961/1962 Oklahoma, U.S. |
Alma mater | Colorado College (BA) Rutgers University (MS, Ph.D) |
Occupation | Academic administrator, psychologist |
She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2002,[3] and is also a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.[1] She was recipient of the Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award from the American Psychological Foundation in 1997.[4]
She was the first female vice-chancellor of the University of Otago, and served in the role from 2011 to 2021.[5][6]
Early life and education
Born in Oklahoma and raised in Colorado,[7] Hayne attended Colorado College, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. She continued her education at Rutgers University, completing a MS and PhD while working under the supervision of Carolyn Rovee-Collier.[3] She spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, and moved to New Zealand in 1992 to join the University of Otago as a lecturer in the psychology department.[8][9]
Career
She served on the Academic Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand, the Marsden Fund Council, and the New Zealand National Science Panel.[1][8] She is an associate editor of Psychological Review and of the New Zealand Journal of Psychology.[8][10]
Hayne is a leading researcher in memory development in infants, children, adolescents and adults and her work has been cited in legal proceedings both nationally and internationally.[7]
Hayne's tenure as vice-chancellor was associated with controversy regarding cuts to the university's humanities department. In 2017, she was accused of intimidating behaviour surrounding cuts to 16 full-time equivalent jobs in the department, and in 2018 following the decision to cut the Art History program. [11][12][13][14][15] In these processes she worked closely with Tony Ballantyne.
In early October 2020, it was reported that Hayne would be finishing her term as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Otago in 2021 to assume the position of Vice Chancellor at Curtin University in Perth; before completing her second five-year term at Otago University.[16][17]
Recognition
In the 2009 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to scientific and medical research.[18]
In 2017, Hayne was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[19] In 2021, she was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Otago.[20]

In the 2022 New Year Honours, Hayne was promoted to Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to health and wellbeing.[21]
Selected works
- Hayne, Harlene (1990). "The effect of multiple reminders on long-term retention in human infants". Developmental Psychobiology. 23 (6): 453–477. doi:10.1002/dev.420230603. PMID 2272404.
- Hayne, Harlene (2004). "Infant memory development: Implications for childhood amnesia". Developmental Review. 24: 33–73. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2003.09.007.
- Hayne, Harlene; Boniface, Joanne; Barr, Rachel (2000). "The development of declarative memory in human infants: Age-related changes in deffered imitation". Behavioral Neuroscience. 114 (1): 77–83. doi:10.1037/0735-7044.114.1.77. PMID 10718263. S2CID 21503131.
- Hayne, Harlene; Herbert, Jane; Simcock, Gabrielle (2003). "Imitation from television by 24- and 30-month-olds". Developmental Science. 6 (3): 254–261. doi:10.1111/1467-7687.00281.
- Hayne, Harlene; Rovee-Collier, Carolyn; Perris, Eve E. (1987). "Categorization and Memory Retrieval by Three-Month-Olds". Child Development. 58 (3): 750. doi:10.2307/1130212. JSTOR 1130212.
- Rovee-Collier, Carolyn K.; Hayne, Harlene; Colombo, Michael (2000). The Development of Implicit and Explicit Memory. Advances in Consciousness Research. Vol. 24. doi:10.1075/aicr.24. ISBN 978-90-272-5144-2. S2CID 142629159.
References
- "Professor Harlene Hayne". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- Beasley, Vanessa (27 April 2021). "New Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne begins at Curtin". Curtin University. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "The Academy: G–I". Royal Society of New Zealand. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- "APF Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists". Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award for Young Psychologists. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- Truesdale, Lisa (8 August 2016). "Peak Profile: Harlene Hayne '83, P'17". Bulletin. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- "Prof Harlene Hayne announced as Vice-Chancellor of Otago Uni". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- Gibb, John (10 February 2011). "Memory scholar new head at Otago". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- "Professor Harlene Hayne". Global Women. Archived from the original on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- Psychology, Department of. "Professor Harlene Hayne". www.otago.ac.nz. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- "New Zealand Journal of Psychology". National Office of the NZ Psychological Society. Archived from the original on 8 February 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- Elder, Vaughn (22 February 2017). "Vice-chancellor accused of intimidation". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- McPhee, Elena (26 September 2018). "Otago Uni votes to scrap art history". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
- Prof Kevin Clements; Rev Dr Peter Matheson (18 November 2019). "Toxic atmosphere at Otago Uni risks becoming 'chronic'". Retrieved 16 July 2020.
- Munro, Bruce (9 March 2020). "Otago University: 'A climate of suppression and fear of repercussions". Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ""The University's Blues" (editorial)". 11 March 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- "Harlene Hayne to leave University of Otago". Otago Daily Times. 8 October 2020. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- "University of Otago vice-chancellor moving to Australia for potential $1m+ job". Stuff. 8 October 2020. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- "New Year honours list 2009". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 31 December 2008. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- "Harlene Hayne". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- MacLean, Hamish (15 March 2021). "Find, trust in your strength, Hayne says". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- "New Year Honours: the full list of 2022". New Zealand Herald. 31 December 2021. Retrieved 31 December 2021.