Wendy Larner
President
Professor Larner completed her BSocSci at the University of Waikato, MA (First Class Hons) at the University of Canterbury, and her PhD as a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar at Carleton University in Ottawa. Before her appointment to the University of Bristol, she held academic positions at the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland, and Visiting Fellowships at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States, Queen Mary University London in the UK, and the University of Frankfurt in Germany.
Professor Larner’s research has been recognised with a range of scholarships and awards, including most recently the Victoria Medal from the Royal Geographical Society, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, Fellow of the New Zealand Geographical Society, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK).