Education
She gained a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Bachelor in sociology from University of Canterbury and represented her alma mater in the television series University Challenge in 1980.
She gained a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a Bachelor in sociology from University of Canterbury and represented her alma mater in the television series University Challenge in 1980.
Hyde resides in Christchurch. Following her studies she lived in Japan before returning to New Zealand in 1989. Hyde"s company also worked with Dutton in 1998 to launch the Cybereditions e-book and print-on-demand publishing operation, which Webcentre owns outright.
During that time she authored Godzone Skies, Astronomy for New Zealanders and helped launch and market Webcentre"s flagship TurboNote software.
She was the long-standing Chair-Entity of the New Zealand Skeptics (New Zealand Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, Incorporated). In her leisure time, Hyde can be found in an alternate persona as a Baroness of Southron Gaard, a branch of the international Society for Creative Anachronism.
She was the team manager the following year in 1981, when Canterbury won the title. She was a founder of the KAOS (Killing As Organised Sport) club at the University of Canterbury in 1981. Hyde was also founder and managing editor of New Zealand Science Monthly magazine which was published for the full decade from 1990 to 2000. Hyde won the New Zealand Association of Scientists science journalism award in 1999. Hyde was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2013 New Year Honours, for services to science.
