Staff Members

Professor Richard Bedford QSO, FRSNZ

Role: Director of The Population Studies Centre Qualifications: BA, MA Auck, PhD ANU Email: rdb@waikato.ac.nz Location: K3.25 Contact: +64 7 838 4770

Research Interests:

Professor Richard Bedford is currently Professor of Population Geography and Director of the Population Studies Centre at the University of Waikato. His undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Auckland and his PhD was completed in 1971 in the Research School of Pacific Studies at the Australian National University. He is a specialist in migration studies and, since the mid-1960s, he has been researching processes of population movement in the Asia-Pacific region.

During the 1980s Professor Bedford was the Convenor of the Population Monitoring Group of the former New Zealand Planning Council. In 1990 he was awarded the NZ 1990 Medal for services to New Zealand. In 2000 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of New Zealand. At the Annual General Meeting of the New Zealand Geographical Society in Christchurch in 2007 Professor Bedford was awarded the Distinguished New Zealand Geographer Medal in recognition of his contribution to the discipline and its professional society since the early 1970s, and in 2008 was made Companion of the Queen’s Service Order for services to geography.

Professor Bedford is currently a member of the inter-governmental International Metropolis Project, and chair of their research committee. He is also a member of Ministerial Advisory Committee on Official Statistics and on several editorial advisory boards for journals including Population, Society and Place (UK), The Journal of Migration and Ethnic Studies (UK), the Journal of International Migration and Integration (Canada), Geographical Research (Australia), The Journal of Population Research (Australia), and Asia Pacific Viewpoint (New Zealand).

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Professor Richard Bedford QSO, FRSNZ