Iain Hay

Professor of Human Geography

Contact Details Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia Email: iain.hay@flinders.edu.au Phone: +61 8 8201 2386 Fax: +61 8 8201 3521 Web: http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/geog/staff/hay.php Download Summary CV (PDF 42.5KB) updated 16 March 2009

Education

Professor Iain Hay holds six university qualifications from three countries. He has a BSc (Hons) (1st class in Geography) from the University of Canterbury and a Master of Arts (with Distinction) from Massey University. He went on to complete a PhD at the University of Washington (Seattle) with the support of a Fulbright scholarship. He later earned a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education and a Master of Educational Management from Flinders University and in 2008 qualified for the award of a higher doctorate (LittD) from the University of Canterbury for over two decades of work on geographies of domination and oppression.

Professional background and visiting positions

Following four years in the Royal New Zealand Air Force and earlier appointments at Massey University and the University of Wollongong, Professor Hay’s academic career at Flinders University commenced as a Lecturer in 1992. He was promoted to Professor in 2000. Iain’s university management experiences since then have included six successful years as Head of the School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management and roles on key University committees such as Academic Senate and Resources Committee. During his tenure at Flinders, Professor Hay has also held visiting appointments at the Universities of Auckland, Edinburgh, Kentucky and Manchester.

Research activity

Iain Hay is a critical human geographer whose research has given longstanding attention to geographies of domination and oppression. He also has a related interest in issues in geographic education and is currently developing work on geographies of the super-rich.

He is author or editor of eight books including The Caring Commodity (Oxford 1989), Money, Medicine and Malpractice in American Society (Praeger 1992), Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (Oxford 2000, 2006, 2010) and Research Ethics for Social Scientists: from ethical conduct to regulatory compliance (Sage 2006). Four of his books have gone to second or third editions. Iain is also author of over seventy-five scholarly chapters and papers in journals such as Geografiska Annaler B, Political Geography, Professional Geographer, and Progress in Human Geography.  Over and above his LittD, Iain’s research has been recognised by awards and honours from organizations such as the British Academy and Australian Institute of Urban Studies.

Teaching

Professor Hay is recognized as a university teacher of high standing. In 2009, the Council of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (RGS/IBG) conferred upon him the Taylor and Francis Award ‘For excellence in the promotion and practice of teaching and learning in Geography in Higher Education’. In 2008 Iain was one of the first two non-UK residents to be admitted a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. This is a major international honour that “recognises outstanding achievement in teaching and enhancing the student learning experience, combined with scholarship and academic leadership”. In 2006 he received the Prime Minister’s Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year. This followed earlier awards in 2006 of a Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning “For sustained leadership and scholarship dedicated to improving the quality of geography learning and teaching within Australia and internationally” and a Carrick Award for Australian University Teaching Excellence (Social Sciences). He currently teaches a range of topics from first-year to postgraduate and supervises several PhD students.

Editorial responsibilities

Iain is the invited Series General Editor for Springer Science+Business Media’s new International Handbooks of Human Geography. He is on the Editorial Boards of more than ten journals; was amongst the founding Editors of Ethics, Place and Environment; and served for ten years as the first Australasian Commissioning Editor for Journal of Geography in Higher Education. He has also been Editor of South Australian Geographical Journal and is currently working with Elsevier to establish a new journal entitled Cultural Landscapes.

Professional fellowships

In addition to his Senior Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy (2008), Iain has been has been recognised as a Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers (2008), the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2006), the Australian Institute of Management (2004), the Royal Geographical Society (2004), and the Governor’s Leadership Foundation of South Australia (2000). Most recently Professor Hay was admitted as a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators (2009), the citation reading “For outstanding leadership and contributions to scholarship in geographical education in Australia and internationally.” Iain is also a Chartered Geographer and Certified Professional Manager.

Professional service

Iain’s extensive record of professional and community engagement includes terms as Chair of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for Geography; Councillor and Secretary of the Institute of Australian Geographers; Councillor for the Royal Geographical Society of South Australia; and Trustee for South Australia Business Vision 2010. With British and American colleagues he also co-founded the International Network for Learning and Teaching in Geography (INLT). He is currently Vice-President (President-Elect) of the Institute of Australian Geographers.

Selected Publications

• Hay, I. 2008, Postcolonial Practices for a Global Virtual Group: The Case of the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education (INLT), Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 15-32.
• Hay, I. 2008, Community Engagement for Student Learning in Geography, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 87-100.
• Hay, I. 2008, Strength in Diversity: Enhancing Learning in Vocationally-Orientated, Master's Level Courses, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 101-119.
• Israel, M. & Hay, I. 2006 Research Ethics for Social Scientists: between ethical conduct and regulatory compliance, Sage, London.
• Hay, I. 2006, Communicating in Geography and the Environmental Sciences, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I., Bochner, D. & Dungey, C. 2006, Making the Grade. A Guide to Successful Communication and Study, 3^rd edition, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I. (ed.) 2005  Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography (2nd ed) Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I., Dunn, K. & Street, A. 2005 'Making the Most of Your Conference Journey', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 159-171.
• Higgs, J., Sefton, A., Street, A., McAllister, L. & Hay, I. (eds) 2005 Communicating in the Health and Social Sciences, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
• Hay, I., Hughes, A. & Tutton, M. 2004 'Monuments, Memory and Marginalisation in Adelaide's Prince Henry Gardens', Geografiska Annaler B, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 200-215.
  This paper won the 2005 Australian Institute of Urban Studies (AIUS) Research Prize.
• McFarlane, T. & Hay, I. 2003 'The Battle for Seattle: protect and popular geopolitics in The Australian newspaper', Political Geography, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 211-232.
• Hay, I. & Bass, D. 2002, 'Making news in geography and environmental management', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 129-142.
• Hay, I. 2001, ‘Editorial. Critical geography and activism in higher education’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 141-146.
• Hay, I. 2001, 'Engaging lessons. Classrooms as Sites of Engagement in Activist Critical Geography', International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 168-173.
• Hay, I & Israel, M. 2001, 'Newsmaking geography: communicating geography through the media', Applied Geography, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 107-125.
• Hay, I. & Cutler, C. 2000, 'Club Dread. Using an issues-based role play on environment, economy, politics and culture' Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 179-197.
• Hay, I., Foote, K. & Healey, M. 2000, 'From Cheltenham to Honolulu - the purposes and projects of the International Network for Learning and Teaching (INLT) Geography in Higher Education'', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 221-227.
• Hay, I. 1998, 'Making moral imaginations. Research ethics, pedagogy and professional human geography', Ethics, Place and Environment, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 55-76.
• Hay, I. & Foley, P. 1998, 'Ethics, geography and responsible citizenship', Journal of Geography in Higher Education, vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 169-183.
• Hay, I. 1997 'Medical liability and the influence of remote reinsurers over U.S. tort law reform', Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 1-25.
• Kirby, S. & Hay, S. 1997, '(Hetero)sexing space. Gay men and 'straight' space in Adelaide, South Australia', Professional Geographer, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 295-305.
• Delaney, E. & Hay, I. 1997, 'Worlds in our words. Geography as a second language', International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, vol. 6, no. 2., pp. 1-11.
• Hay, I. 1996, 'Neoliberalism and criticisms of earthquake insurance arrangements in New Zealand', Disasters. The Journal of Disaster Studies and Management, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 34-48.
• Hay, I. (ed.) 1996, Gender and Environments. Proceedings of the Institute of Australian Geographers' Gender and Geography Study Group Conference held in Adelaide, South Australia, 19-21 April 1996, Institute of Australian Geographers, Adelaide.
• Hay, I. 1992, Money, Medicine, and Malpractice in American Society, New York, Praeger.
• Hay, I. 1989, The Caring Commodity. The Provision of Health Care in New Zealand, Auckland, Oxford University Press.

Last updated 20 April 2009