Wendy Larner

{{short description|New Zealand social scientist and geographer}}

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University of Canterbury
Carleton University

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Royal Society Te Apārangi

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Wendy Larner {{Post-nominals|country=NZL|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,{{Cite web |url= https://staff-enews.cardiff.ac.uk/t/t-e-ftlhhud-ydkitkdrkr-j/ |title=Message from the Chair of Council 31.01.23|website=cardiff.ac.uk|access-date=2023-01-31}} 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.{{Cite web |url= https://royalsociety.org.nz/fellows-and-members/link-news/president-elect-professor-wendy-larner-frsnz/ |title=Royal Society Te Apārangi – President-elect – Professor Wendy Larner|website=royalsociety.org.nz|access-date=2018-02-10}}

Larner has a master's degree from the University of Canterbury, with a thesis titled Migration and female labour: Samoan women in New Zealand {{cite thesis |last=Larner |first=Wendy |year=1989 |type=Masters thesis |title=Migration and female labour : Samoan women in New Zealand |publisher=UC Research Repository, University of Canterbury |hdl=10092/12015 |doi=10.26021/5868 |url=https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/12015}} and a PhD in Geography from Carleton University in Canada.

Recognition

Larner is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, having transferred from an honorary fellowship in 2016,{{Cite web |title=All Fellows: J-L |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/j-l/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}{{Cite web |title=Honorary Fellows: J-L |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-honorary-fellows/j-l/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}} a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (United Kingdom){{Cite web|url=http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2011/7595.html|title=2011: Faculty of Social Sciences and Law|date=14 April 2011|website=University of Bristol|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-09-20}} 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. {{cite web|url=https://www.rgs.org/about/medals-award/2018-awards/|title=Medals and Awards|publisher= Royal Geographical Society|access-date= 20 July 2018}} In 2018, Larner was awarded the Innovation and Science award of the Women of Influence awards.{{Cite web|url=http://womenofinfluence.co.nz/|title=Women of Influence awards|date=18 September 2018|website=Stuff|access-date=8 October 2018}}

Larner was previously Professor of Human Geography and Sociology at the University of Bristol.{{Cite news|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/news/2015/07/top-scholar-and-senior-leader-appointed-provost-at-victoria-university|title=Top scholar and senior leader appointed Provost at Victoria University|last=Wellington|first=Victoria University of|date=2015-07-01|work=Victoria University of Wellington|access-date=2017-08-06|language=en}}

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.{{Cite web|title=Wendy Larner|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/wendy-larner/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}

Selected publications

{{Cite Q|Q57606985}}
{{Cite Q|Q61012150}}
{{Cite q|Q61465236}}
{{Cite book|title=Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy|year= 2013 |pages=200 pages |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|last=Molloy|first=Maureen|author-link=Maureen Molloy (anthropologist)|last2=Larner|first2=Wendy|author-link2=Wendy Larner}}