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Wendy Larner

Wendy Larner
Larner in 2016
Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University
Incumbent
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.cardiff.ac.uk/about/organisation/university-executive-board/president-and-vice-chancellor

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 PresidentofCardiff University since September 2023,^[1] having previously been provostatVictoria 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[edit]

Larner 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.

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