In Memoriam: Julie Meade Rose
by Nick Taylor
Julie was a long standing member of NZAIA and an active member of the Core group for many years, until health intervened. Most recently, Julie led planning for the local arrangements behind our very successful 2014 conference at Auckland University. Julie passed away peacefully at her home in Otorohanga on 17 December 2017. We miss her contribution to our organisation and field of work.
She made a particular contribution to the field of social impact assessment in this country and the Asia-Pacific region. With qualifications in social sciences (anthropology) and planning, Julie worked for just over 30 years covering social assessment and social planning.
Her early professional life featured work for the Huntly Monitoring Project at Waikato University in the early 1980s. The Huntly monitoring project, led by the late Tom Fookes, was one of the first internationally recognised social monitoring projects. One of her early papers, to the 1980 Anthropology conference, was on “The Māori community and the Huntly Power Project.”
She later spent eight years at Murray North Limited, one of New Zealand's largest planning and engineering companies, gaining considerable experience on a range of infrastructural projects, and also worked as a council manager of environmental services.
After starting her own consulting and research firm, Julie’s work continued to focus on the energy sector and her impact assessments included coal mining, power station development, wind farms and transmission lines. Her interest in the effects of projects on people and communities and their social wellbeing also covered other sectors, such as housing, social services, retail developments, transport and forestry.
Julie gave evidence to several EPA Boards of Inquiry such as the MacKays to Peka Peka and Waterview Connection Projects, the Turitea Wind Farm and the North Island Grid Upgrade proposals. She also gave evidence to the Environment Court on many projects including roading, supermarket development, landfills, goldmine development, power stations, transmission route and line development, and floodlights at Eden Park.
Her overseas project work covered 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific. She worked for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade projects. Resettlement issues were a major consideration in most of these overseas projects.
Julie also contributed to building capacity in impact assessment, including development of a course on Social Impact Assessment for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand that provided distance learning to students throughout New Zealand over seven years. She has also lectured and gave seminars on social impact assessment at universities, forestry and engineering companies, councils and consultancies.
Later in life, Julie met Wang Lang Ling, a university lecturer in economics when they worked together in northern China. Of similar age, the two women corresponded about the influences on commonalities in their lives through childhood in the post World War 11 era, family, education, community, marriage and work life, despite their difference backgrounds. This dialogue led to the book “Julie in New Zealand Lang Ling in China: Influences on Our Lives”.
Julie was also a dearly loved wife, mother and nana. She and husband Graham had two daughters and two grand-daughters. Our thoughts and sympathies go to her family, friends and colleagues.
She made a particular contribution to the field of social impact assessment in this country and the Asia-Pacific region. With qualifications in social sciences (anthropology) and planning, Julie worked for just over 30 years covering social assessment and social planning.
Her early professional life featured work for the Huntly Monitoring Project at Waikato University in the early 1980s. The Huntly monitoring project, led by the late Tom Fookes, was one of the first internationally recognised social monitoring projects. One of her early papers, to the 1980 Anthropology conference, was on “The Māori community and the Huntly Power Project.”
She later spent eight years at Murray North Limited, one of New Zealand's largest planning and engineering companies, gaining considerable experience on a range of infrastructural projects, and also worked as a council manager of environmental services.
After starting her own consulting and research firm, Julie’s work continued to focus on the energy sector and her impact assessments included coal mining, power station development, wind farms and transmission lines. Her interest in the effects of projects on people and communities and their social wellbeing also covered other sectors, such as housing, social services, retail developments, transport and forestry.
Julie gave evidence to several EPA Boards of Inquiry such as the MacKays to Peka Peka and Waterview Connection Projects, the Turitea Wind Farm and the North Island Grid Upgrade proposals. She also gave evidence to the Environment Court on many projects including roading, supermarket development, landfills, goldmine development, power stations, transmission route and line development, and floodlights at Eden Park.
Her overseas project work covered 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific. She worked for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade projects. Resettlement issues were a major consideration in most of these overseas projects.
Julie also contributed to building capacity in impact assessment, including development of a course on Social Impact Assessment for the Open Polytechnic of New Zealand that provided distance learning to students throughout New Zealand over seven years. She has also lectured and gave seminars on social impact assessment at universities, forestry and engineering companies, councils and consultancies.
Later in life, Julie met Wang Lang Ling, a university lecturer in economics when they worked together in northern China. Of similar age, the two women corresponded about the influences on commonalities in their lives through childhood in the post World War 11 era, family, education, community, marriage and work life, despite their difference backgrounds. This dialogue led to the book “Julie in New Zealand Lang Ling in China: Influences on Our Lives”.
Julie was also a dearly loved wife, mother and nana. She and husband Graham had two daughters and two grand-daughters. Our thoughts and sympathies go to her family, friends and colleagues.