Wendy Larner FRSNZ is a New Zealand social scientist who has focussed on the interdisciplinary areas of globalisation, governance and gender. She has been Vice-Chancellor and President of Cardiff University since September 2023,[1] having previously been provost at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
Wendy Larner | |
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 Larner in 2016 | |
| Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University | |
| Assumed office September 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Colin Riordan |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | University of Waikato University of Canterbury Carleton University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Bristol Royal Society Te Apārangi |
| Website | www |
In July 2018 she became the President of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, taking over from Richard Bedford.[2]
Larner has a master's degree from the University of Canterbury, with a thesis titled Migration and female labour: Samoan women in New Zealand.[3]
Recognition
editLarner is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, having transferred from an honorary fellowship in 2016,[4][5] a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (United Kingdom)[6] and a Fellow of the New Zealand Geographical Society. She has been a visiting fellow at universities in Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom. She was awarded the Victoria Medal in 2018 by the Royal Geographical Society. [7] In 2018, Larner was awarded the Innovation and Science award of the Women of Influence awards.[8]
Larner was previously Professor of Human Geography and Sociology at the University of Bristol.[9]
In 2017, Larner was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.[10]
Selected publications
edit- Noel Castree; Paul Chatterton; Nik Heynen; Wendy Larner; Melissa W. Wright (16 May 2012), Introduction: The Point is to Change it, pp. 1–9, doi:10.1002/9781444397352.CH, Wikidata Q57606985
- Wendy Larner (January 2000). "Neo-liberalismi Policy, Ideology, Governmentality". Studies in Political Economy. 63 (1): 5–25. doi:10.1080/19187033.2000.11675231. ISSN 0707-8552. Wikidata Q61012150.
- Richard G. Kyle; Christine Milligan; Robin A. Kearns; Wendy Larner; Nicholas R. Fyfe; Liz Bondi (30 November 2010). "The Tertiary Turn: Locating "The Academy" in Autobiographical Accounts of Activism in Manchester, UK and Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand". Antipode. 43 (4): 1181–1214. doi:10.1111/J.1467-8330.2010.00820.X. ISSN 0066-4812. Wikidata Q61465236.
- Molloy, Maureen; Larner, Wendy (2013). Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 200 pages.
References
edit- ^ "Message from the Chair of Council 31.01.23". cardiff.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
- ^ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – President-elect – Professor Wendy Larner". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ Larner, Wendy (1989). Migration and female labour : Samoan women in New Zealand (Masters thesis). UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury. doi:10.26021/5868. hdl:10092/12015.
- ^ "All Fellows: J-L". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Honorary Fellows: J-L". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "2011: Faculty of Social Sciences and Law". University of Bristol. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- ^ "Medals and Awards". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
- ^ "Women of Influence awards". Stuff. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
- ^ Wellington, Victoria University of (1 July 2015). "Top scholar and senior leader appointed Provost at Victoria University". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "Wendy Larner". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 10 May 2021.
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