Sandra Lee Morrison is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Waikato, specialising in researching and advocating for adult education for diverse populations across the Asia Pacific region.
[1] As a child Morrison took part in performances of Māori singing and dancing for tourists, with her family, but did not enjoy it and preferred reading books, which she says got her 'hooked on learning'.
[1] Morrison served from 2004 to 2008 as President of the Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education.
[2] Morrison said her goals for her four-year term were to "reaffirm and strengthen that access to good quality education is a human right" and "to achieve greater recognition of the importance of education in sustainable development and this means taking into consideration the rights of women and those vulnerable groups.
[9][10][11] In 2009 Morrison was inducted into the University of Oklahoma’s International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of Fame.