Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury

"My commitment to teaching was driven by a personal vision to change the way humans treat the world, enhanced by the rewards of helping students learn".

Angus is a highly effective leader in his field of freshwater ecology. He is fully committed to lifelong learning and advanced thinking in ecology, and conveys this commitment through his teaching and interactions with peers and professionals.

His teaching style is engaging, he always strives to include everyone at their own level and encourages them to achieve to the best of their abilities. Angus has played an important leadership role in the amalgamation of the Zoology Department with the Plant and Microbial Sciences in to a single School of Biological Sciences.