Advisory Board/Associates
- Associate Professor Richard Bullen, Art History and Theory, University of Canterbury
- Duncan M. Campbell, Chinese, Victoria University of Wellington
- Professor Bruce Clarkson, Deputy VC Research, University of Waikato
- Associate Professor Sonja Duempellmann, Harvard University, USA
- Associate Professor Karen Jones, University of Kent, UK
- Professor Ulrike Plath, Tallinn University, Estonia
- Jenny Uglow, United Kingdom
Institutional Associates
- Dunedin Chinese Garden Trust, NZ
The Garden History Research Foundation 