Wendy Larner | |
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Vice-Chancellor of Cardiff University | |
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 |
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]