Joanna Cullinane


Joanna Cullinane is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at Massey University, specialising in management and employment relations. Between 2017 and 2025 she was Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor of the Massey Business School.

Academic career

Cullinane completed a PhD titled The political economy of employment relationships in New Zealand at the University of Waikato in 2003. Cullinane moved to the UK, and completed a Masters in Human Resource Management at the University of Glamorgan. She also was lecturer in organisational behaviour and Deputy Head of Division at the University of Glamorgan. She was Dean Academic at Coventry University London, and Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Greenwich. Cullinane returned to New Zealand and joined the faculty of Massey University in 2017, rising to full professor in 2024. As of 2024 she is Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Massey Business School and chairs the Academic Progress committee. Cullinane played "an instrumental role" in the formation of a partnership between Massey University and Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. During the period of the COVID-19 pandemic when New Zealand's borders were closed to foreign students, Massey opened a learning centre at NUFE for their Chinese students to continue their qualifications, and this led to the establishment of a joint educational institute based at NUFE in 2022.
Cullinane's research focuses on organisational behaviour and management and employee relations. She has written on employment in the construction industry, differences in mask-wearing behaviours in different countries during the pandemic, and has researched the level of employee support for vaccine mandates in New Zealand workplaces.

Selected works

Books and book chapters

  • Raiden, A., Pye, M., & Cullinane, J.. The nature of the employment relationship in the UK construction industry: A flexible construct?. In A. Dainty, & B. Bagilhole People and Culture in Construction.Taylor & Francis
  • Cullinane, J. . Working in Organisations. Pearson Publication. 2 editions. ISBN 1846582806
  • Croucher, SM., Cullinane, J., Murray, N., Rocker, KT., & Nguyen, T.. Health communication and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic: A 22-nation exploration of mask-wearing. In Pandemic Communication..

Journal articles

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