Vicky Mabin Explained

Victoria Jane Mabin, also van den Broek-Mabin, is a New Zealand management academic, and is a professor emeritus at Victoria University of Wellington. Mabin is a Fellow of the UK Operational Research Society and was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization.

Academic career

Mabin completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours at the University of Canterbury in 1975, where she was a student of Hans Daellenbach. She then completed a PhD titled Variability in distribution at the Department of Operational Research at the University of Lancaster.^{[1] [2]} Mabin worked at DSIR before joining the faculty of Victoria University of Wellington in 1991, rising to full professor as Professor of Management in 2012. Mabin was the Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning) for Victoria's School of Business for six years from 2008.^[3] In 2020 she retired and was made emeritus professor.

Mabin's research focused on operational research and the theory of constraints.^[4] She has served as the President of the Operations Research Society of New Zealand.

One of Mabin's notable doctoral students is Professor Sarah Leberman.^[5]

Awards

In 2004 Mabin was elected a Fellow of the Operational Research Society in the UK.^[6]

In 2018 the Operations Research Society of New Zealand awarded her the Hans Daellenbach Prize, which is awarded to 'distinguished contributors' of operational research.^[7]

Mabin was part of a team of four researchers awarded the Griffiths Medal by the Operational Research Society (UK) in 2019 for the best article in the journal Health Systems in 2017–2018.^[8]

Mabin was awarded a TOCICO Lifetime Achievement Award by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization in 2021, "in recognition for significant contribution to the TOC community to advance the TOC body of knowledge".^[9]

External links

• Vicky Mabin and her Theory Of Constraints journey – Expert talk, recorded 2023, via YouTube
  

Notes and References

1. Variability in distribution. Mabin. Victoria Jane. PhD thesis. University of Lancaster. 1981.
2. Web site: Management . Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Commerce School of . 2021-10-26 . Professor Vicky Mabin Te Kura Whakahaere / School of Management Te Herenga Waka . 2024-09-08 . Victoria University of Wellington . en.
3. Web site: Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington . 2024-09-07 . people.wgtn.ac.nz.
4. Web site: Dr. Victoria Mabin – Speaker Bio . 8 Sep 2024 . TOCICO.
5. Leberman . Sarah . 1999 . Doctoral thesis . The Transfer of Learning from the Classroom to the Workplace: a New Zealand Case Study . Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington . 10.26686/wgtn.16945753 . free.
6. Web site: Society . The OR . 2004-05-27 . Check out Prof Victoria Mabin FORS's Fellow of the OR Society credential issued by The OR Society . 2024-09-08 . credsverse.com . en.
7. Web site: 2024-04-23 . Professor Vicky Mabin awarded ORSNZ Hans Daellenbach Prize Ōrauariki / Wellington School of Business and Government Te Herenga Waka . 2024-09-08 . Victoria University of Wellington . en.
8. Web site: Prof Vicky Mabin part of Griffiths Medal winning team – Operations Research Society of New Zealand . 2024-09-08 . orsnz.org.nz.
9. Web site: July 31, 2021 . TOCICO Awards Archive – Lifetime Achievement Award . Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization.