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Study from the other side of the world – just an email away


A New Zealander who has gone to great lengths to learn has earned a masters in leadership from the University of Portsmouth


Delwyn Neill, 42, studied for her MSc leadership and management from home in Wellington, 12,000 miles away from Portsmouth, via distance learning.


She attended her graduation accompanied by her husband, sons and parents and said she hopes seeing a graduation ceremony might inspire her sons to one day study as hard as their mother.


She said: “One of my primary motivations for completing this degree was to show my two boys the importance of studying hard. I hope that they will always remember coming to England to see mummy graduating and maybe even be inspired to study for a degree themselves one day. They are only seven and four years


old so I‘m trying not to plan their futures too much just yet.


“My parents are two of my greatest supporters and they travelled over to the UK for this graduation too.“


Neill is a psychologist at the Institute for Leader Development, a team focused on leader development in New Zealand‘s air force, army and navy, and was inspired to study at the University of Portsmouth because of its strong links with military leadership training. The University has the contract to train Britain‘s RAF personnel in leadership.


She said: “Conducting the research for my degree via correspondence meant I had to be very self- sufficient, although my tutor was always only an email away and was very helpful.


“It also helped that my boss was doing the same degree at the same time. Although he had a completely different topic we were able to motivate each other to persevere. He was the one who first made contact with the University of Portsmouth when he went on a benchmarking trip to the UK to compare what we were doing with leader development to the UK military.“


Following school, Neill trained initially as a lawyer but, after two years, decided to change careers and studied for an MA in industrial and organisational psychology in New York. She has been a psychologist ever since and “loves it“.


As the only psychologist on the leadership team within New Zealand‘s military, she is


responsible for developing and leading self-awareness training and for ensuring that what is taught is based on sound research. She is also responsible for assessing the impact of leader development programmes.


The New Zealand Defence Force sponsored Neill‘s course.


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