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 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 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

• 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

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. "All Fellows: J-L". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
5. "Honorary Fellows: J-L". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
6. "2011: Faculty of Social Sciences and Law". University of Bristol. 14 April 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
7. "Medals and Awards". Royal Geographical Society. Retrieved 20 July 2018.
8. "Women of Influence awards". Stuff. 18 September 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
9. 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.
10. "Wendy Larner". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 10 May 2021.

Professional and academic associations
Preceded by Richard Bedford	President of the Royal Society of New Zealand 2018–2021	Succeeded by Brent Clothier
Academic offices
Preceded by Colin Riordan	Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University September 2023 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent