Flinders University of South Australia

Faculty Member, School of the Environment

Professor of Human Geography

About

Professor Iain Hay is Professor of Geography at Flinders University, South Australia and former Australian Learning and Teaching Council Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington as a Fulbright Scholar and has 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 ten books including 'Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society' (Praeger 1992) and 'Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography' (3rd edn Oxford 2010). He 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'. In 2006, Iain received the Prime Minister’s award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. He has received the 2009 Taylor and Francis Award of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers); the 2010 inaugural Association of American Geographers’ E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award for ‘outstanding contributions to the discipline of geography'; and most recently was awarded the NZ Geographical Society's Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal. Iain is currently President of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

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