Noeline Elizabeth Alcorn QSO is a New Zealand education-research academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato.
[1] In 1993, Alcorn was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.
After attending Samuel Marsden Collegiate School in Wellington, New Zealand[3] and a 1971 PhD titled Vision and nightmare : a study of Doris Lessing's novels at the University of California, Irvine, Alcorn moved to the University of Waikato, rising to full professor.
[1][4] In 1993, Alcorn was awarded the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal.
[5] Alcorn was twice selected for the Herbison Lecture by the New Zealand Association for Research in Education, in 1992 and again in 2005.