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Dr. Warwick Murray (born 1972) is a British-born New Zealand human geographer and Latin Americanist. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1993 (BSocSci, jt.hons), and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1996. He has held teaching posts at the University of the South Pacific, and Brunel University. He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. |
Dr. Warwick Murray (born 1972) is a British-born New Zealand human geographer and Latin Americanist. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1993 (BSocSci, jt.hons), and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1996. He has held teaching posts at the University of the South Pacific, and Brunel University. He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. |
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Dr. Warwick Murray (born 1972) is a British-born New Zealand human geographer and Latin Americanist. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1993 (BSocSci, jt.hons), and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1996. He has held teaching posts at the University of the South Pacific, and Brunel University. He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
He has won numerous awards for his teaching including a New Zealand National Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence in 2006. He known for integrating music into his teaching and writing original songs about class material. He is also an active blues musician playing in Wellington-based blues trio, Strange Brew.
As a researcher he has published over 50 articles, chapters and other papers, and edited or written over 5 volumes, in the fields of development and economic geography, focusing especially on Chile and Latin America, as well as the Pacific Islands. He is author of the textbook "Geographies of Globalization" (Routledge, 2006). Generally, his work deals with the impacts of neoliberalism (free-market reform) in Third World regions, especially impacts on the rural poor.
He has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Asia Pacific Viewpoint (Blackwells) an international peer-reviewed journal in development geography, since 2002.
[1] SGEES, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ [2] Personal homepage [3] Asia Pacific Viewpoint