Warwick Murray PhD, FNZGS, DNZG (born 1972) is a New Zealand academic and musician.

Academic career

Murray graduated from the

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in 1993, where he also gained a PhD 1997. He has held academic posts at the

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, and

Brunel University Brunel University London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In June ...

(UK). He was appointed professor of human geography and development studies in 2010 at

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well kno ...

, New Zealand, which he joined in 2001. He has held sabbatical posts as visiting professor in geography at Cambridge University (UK) (2019, 2022) and Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) (2017) as well as in Latin American studies at Oxford University (UK) (2015). In 2006, Murray won a New Zealand National Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence, and in 2007 the

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(NZGS) President's Award for Teaching Excellence. He was awarded the NZGS President's Award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision in 2015 in recognition of supervision of research on Latin America. In 2019, he won the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal which is the highest honour in New Zealand geography. As a researcher, Murray has published books, articles, or chapters in the fields of development, rural, and

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, focusing especially on Chile and Latin America, as well as the Pacific Islands, the Asia Pacific and New Zealand. He is a commentator on national television and radio on international development issues and Latin American affairs, and is the author of the books ''Geographies of Globalization'' and ''Aid and Development'' co-authored with Professor John Overton. From 2002-10 and 2016-20, he was the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Asia Pacific Viewpoint''. In 2007 he founded the Victoria Institute for Links with Latin America and has also served as Co-President of the Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia and President of the Council for Latin American Studies of Asia and Oceania. He was Vice-President of the New Zealand Geographical Society (2017–19) and President (2020-21).

Personal life

Born in

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and raised in Hereford, England, where he graduated from the local

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. Murray is a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. A four-part show featuring original songs he plays in lectures called ''The Singing Geographer'' aired on National Radio New Zealand in 2012/13. He records and performs geographical lectures on a Youtube playlist called ‘Georambles’. He has also released five New Zealand top 20 albums both as a soloist and with The Strait Shooters, Funky Jandal, and The Fabulous Murray Brothers. The latter peaked at #6 in the New Zealand Albums Top 20 and at #1 on the New Zealand Heatseeker chart of January 22, 2018 with 'Sing It Chap!'

References

Publications
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Warwick Victoria University of Wellington faculty Latin Americanists 1972 births Living people Alumni of the University of Birmingham