Alan Gamlen

Biography

Alan Gamlen is the Director of the Hugo Centre for Population and Migration Research, and an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. He received his Doctorate (in Human Geography) from the University of Oxford as a New Zealand Bright Future Scholar. Alan’s research focuses on human migration and ethnicity, with special interests in the governance of international migration, diasporas and transnationalism. He is author of some 50 articles, book chapters and working papers on these topics, appearing in a range of journals including Political Geography, Progress in Human Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and International Migration Review. As an editor, he has co-published several books and special issues (including Migration and Global Governance and Diasporas Reimagined), and he is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Migration Studies, published by Oxford University Press. He is a frequent keynote speaker and media commentator around the world. Alan grew up in New Zealand, completing undergraduate degrees at Victoria University of Wellington and receiving the university’s award for “most outstanding combination of academic excellence and contribution to the community”. In 2011-2015 he returned to Victoria as a member of the faculty, in fulfilment of national service commitments. Alan has also previously held appointments at Germany’s Max Planck Society, at the Japan Center for Area Studies in Osaka, at Stanford University in the USA, and at Oxford University in the UK, where he remains affiliated to several centers (including IMI and COMPAS, and St Antony’s). He has worked as a consultant and advisor to the World Bank, the Commonwealth Secretariat, the International Organization for Migration, various United Nations agencies, and numerous national governments. His research has been funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, the UK Leverhulme Trust, and the UK Economic and Social Research Council, among others, and he is a past recipient of Japan’s Monbusho Scholarship, New Zealand’s Top Achiever Doctoral Scholarship, and Oxford’s Holly Wyatt-Walter Award. In 2014 he received New Zealand’s National Award for Best Emerging Researcher in Geography.

Research Interest

Medicine,Medical Education,Research,etc