Professor Iain Hay CGeog

Biography

Occupation: Professor & Head of Geography Employer: Flinders University Memo: Iain Hay is Mathew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Geography at Flinders University, South Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington as a Fulbright Scholar and recently received a LittD from the University of Canterbury for 20+ years of post-doctoral work on geographies of domination and oppression. He is author or editor of a dozen books including Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society (Praeger 1992); Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (3rd edn Oxford 2010); and Geographies of the Super-Rich (Edward Elgar 2013); is General Editor of Springer's new 'International Handbooks of Human Geography' series; and has had editorial roles with journals that include Applied Geography, Ethics, Place and Environment and Social and Cultural Geography. He served as Head of the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management at Flinders University over the period 2000-6 and, in 2006, received the Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. Iain is immediate past-President of the Institute of Australian Geographers. His webpage is at: http://www.flinders.edu.au/people/iain.hay.