Wendy Larner
Larner in 2016
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
Royal Society Te Apārangi

Wendy Larner 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.

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

Larner is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (United Kingdom)[4] 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. [5] In 2018, Larner was awarded the Innovation and Science award of the Women of Influence awards.[6]

Larner was previously Professor of Human Geography and Sociology at the University of Bristol.[7]

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.[8]

Selected publications

  • 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.

References

  1. ↑ "Message from the Chair of Council 31.01.23". cardiff.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Royal Society Te Apārangi – President-elect – Professor Wendy Larner". royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ "2011: Faculty of Social Sciences and Law". University of Bristol. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "Medals and Awards". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Women of Influence awards". Stuff. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Wendy Larner". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 10 May 2021.


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