New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities

Wendy is an expatriate New Zealander who moved to the University of Bristol at the beginning of 2005. In addition to studying and/or working at the universities of Victoria, Waikato, Canterbury and Auckland, she has held formal visitorships in the United Kingdom, Canada, United States and Germany. She is a social scientist who works on issues of globalisation, neoliberalism, and 'post-welfarist' governance. This research builds on a series of empirical projects which encompass economic and social policy, industry studies, and community based research, and which have received funding from the NZ Foundation for Research Science, and Technology, RSNZ Marsden Fund, Canadian Faculty Awards, Canadian Programme for International Research Linkages, Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy. Current projects include research on the relationships between neoliberalism and activism, and a forthcoming book on the New Zealand fashion industry. She is also Editor of Antipode: A journal of radical geography, and Associate Editor of Social Politics: International Studies in Gender State and Society.