Warwick Murray (Dr.)

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Associate Professor Warwick E 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 academic posts at the University of the South Pacific, and Brunel University (UK). He is currently Associate Professor/Reader in human geography at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

He has won awards for his teaching including a New Zealand National Tertiary Teaching Award for Sustained Excellence (2006) and the New Zealand Geographical Society President's Award for Teaching Excellence (2007). In the latter year he won a Victoria University Research Excellence award. He is also known for singing original songs in class about academic material (see UK Guardian, January 8 2008) and is an active blues/rock musician in Wellington.

As a researcher he has published approximately 60 books, articles, or chapters 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). He has been Editor-in-Chief of Asia Pacific Viewpoint a journal in development geography, since 2002, and is Founding Director of the Victoria Institute for Links with Latin America.

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