Alice Pollard

Dr. Alice Aruhe'eta Pollard is a women's rights and peace advocate from the Solomon Islands. Education Growing up in Malaita, she attended the Su’u Secondary School. She received a teaching diploma from the University of the South Pacific in 1982. Between 1994 and 1997 she received a BA in Community Development and MA in Women's Studies, both from the Victoria University of Technology. In 2006 she became the second women from the Solomon Islands to have been awarded a PhD, receiving her doctorate from the Victoria University of Wellington, with a thesis titled Painaha: Gender and Leadership in 'Are'Are Society, the South Sea Evangelical Church and Parliamentary Leadership-Solomon Islands. Her doctoral advisors were Teresia Teaiwa, Prue Hyman and Kay Morris Matthews. Career In the 1980s, Pollard began working for the government of Solomon Islands, becoming Head of the Women's Division in 1988. After leaving the government to complete her university studies, she returned and worked in the Women's Division between 1997 and 1999, including as Director of the Ministry of Women, Children and Family Affairs.