Crosbie Walsh

Dr. Walsh is a population geographer whose research and teaching has focused on social, economic and spatial inequalities in the Pacific Islands. Dr. Walsh has published extensively on Tongan, Niuean and Fijian migration, low income and urban squatter households in Fiji, Solomon Islands urbanization, the informal sector in Papua New Guinea, and the relationships between migration, urbanization and development in a number of Pacific Island countries. He has served as a short-term consultant to Pacific Island governments, regional and international agencies, and several non-government organizations. In recent years Dr. Walsh's research has focused more closely on Income Inequality, Deprivation and Urban Poverty; Urban Poor Household Structures and Composition; Income Support Systems of the Poor; Squatter and other Informal Urban Settlements; Cultural Adaptations to Poverty; Poverty and the Handicapped; and Governance and Community Empowerment. Dr. Walsh was the chief architect in establishing Development Studies as an academic discipline at universities in New Zealand, and was the first Director of the Development Studies program at Massey University, New Zealand. Prior to his retirement in 1998, Dr. Walsh held a personal chair in Development Geography and was the founding director of the postgraduate Center for Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University, and Editor of The Journal of Pacific Studies.

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