Member Profile

First Name

Michael

Surname

Fowler

PHANZA Joining Date

2009

Region

Hawkes Bay

Specialities

Hawke's Bay business and social history

About Me

Currently I am employed as Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the Eastern Institute of Technology in Hawke's Bay. I am a Chartered Accountant, and hold post graduate qualifications in accounting, including a Master of Business Studies (Massey).

Since 2004, I have focussed my private and professional research objectives to recording elements of Hawke's Bay's history.

I formed my own company, Michael Fowler Publishing Limited to publish my books in 2007.

My areas of study are: Hawke's Bay business history, the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake and local social history.

In the past few years I have received a number of private commissions including a book on kindergarten history, and for the Hawke's Bay Chamber Business Hall of Fame.

I am also available to speak on the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake; my latest was as keynote speaker for the North Island Emergency Management Conference in November 2009.

Publications and Research

Recent publications (2008-2009):

The Reel Story: A history of Napier and Hastings Cinemas 1896-1996 (2008)

A Proud Heritage: A History of the Heretaunga Free KIndergarten Association 1928-2008 (2008) Commissioned.

Profiles of candidates for the Hawke's Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Hall of Fame (2009). Commissioned.

Where is the boss of the Earthquake? Relief, recovery and orgnisational after the 1931 Hawke's Bay Earthquake. Keynote address to North Island Civil Defence Emergency Conference 10 November 2009.

History

Member for

2 years 33 weeks