Jane Beaglehole Ritchie
Jane Beaglehole Ritchie is a New Zealand psychology academic and expert of child-raising. She is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Waikato. She was the first woman to graduate with a PhD in psychology from a New Zealand university.
The daughter of psychologist and ethnologist Ernest Beaglehole, Ritchie completed a 1957 MSc thesis titled Childhood in Rakau: A Study of the First Five Years of Life and a 1962 PhD title 'Maori Families: an Exploratory Study in Wellington City.' While at Victoria, she met and married James Ritchie, and the two collaborated on almost all their future research, just as her parents had done.
They both moved to University of Waikato, and both rose to full professor.
In the 1989 New Year Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, for services to women, education and the community.
James Ritchie died in 2009 and Jane retired in 2010.Selected works
- Ritchie, Jane Beaglehole, and James E. Ritchie. Violence in New Zealand. Huia Publishers, 1993.
- Ritchie, Jane Beaglehole, and James E. Ritchie. Child rearing patterns in New Zealand. AH & AW Reed, 1970.
- Ritchie, Jane Beaglehole. Childhood in Rakau: the first five years of life. No. 10. Victoria Univ., 1957.
- Ritchie, Jane Beaglehole, and James E. Ritchie. The next generation: Child rearing in New Zealand. Penguin Books, 1997.
- Ritchie, Jane Beaglehole. Chance to be equal. Cape Catley, 1978.
