Professor Paul Dalziel’s research focuses on economic and social policy, with a particular interest in regional economic development and sustainable wellbeing.

He investigates how persons, households, communities, markets, regions, countries and the global community can expand capabilities for human wellbeing. Paul is Deputy Director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (AERU), where clients fund projects to test specific science hypotheses that are important for their objectives. Paul also spends a large part of his time engaging with industry and policy advisors to determine critical research questions and to deliver new knowledge arising from his scientific work. His research influences policy development and is used directly by New Zealand end-users (particularly in the context of agri-food global value chains) as well as shaping the international scholarly literature on wellbeing economics. In 2017, Paul was appointed Regional Studies Association Ambassador to New Zealand, joining a global network of 65 scholars working to increase linkages, cooperation and collaborative research internationally. He is the lead author of Wellbeing Economics: The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity, which is the fifth most downloaded book in economics published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.

Professor Paul Dalziel: Lincoln University Research Profile

Contact

Phone: (03) 423 0373
Email: Paul.Dalziel@lincoln.ac.nz