Mary Morgan-Richards is a New Zealand biologist, and as of 2019 is a full professor at Massey University.

[1] In 1995, Morgan-Richard's completed a PhD thesis titled 'Weta Karyotypes: the Systematic Significance of Their Variation' at the Victoria University of Wellington.

In 2005 Morgan-Richards moved to the Massey University, rising to full professor in 2018.

[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] Native New Zealand invertebrates including wētā,[5][8][10][13][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] stick insects,[4][23] and snails[6][11][12][14][15][24] are often the subject of her research.

[16][21][25] Morgan-Richard's phylogenetic research has also focused on birds and their parasites.