Professor Iain Hay is Australian Learning and Teaching Council Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and Professor of Geography at Flinders University, South Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Washington as a Fulbright Scholar and recently received 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 received the 2009 Taylor and Francis Award of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) and the 2010 inaugural Association of American Geographers' E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Award in 2010 for 'outstanding contributions to the discipline of geography'. Iain is currently President of the Institute of Australian Geographers.