Katharine A. Robson Brown is a British anthropologist. She is a professor in Mechanical Engineering and Biological Anthropology at the University of Bristol. She is also the Director of the Jean Golding Institute and Turing University Lead.
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| Academic background | |
| Education | BA (hons), MA, PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | Rob Foley |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Bristol |
Career
editRobson Brown joined the faculty at the University of Bristol in 1997 after earning her PhD.[1] She was elected into a Phyllis and Eileen Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowships.[2] In her early years at Bristol, she developed the UK's first tomography laboratory within a forensic or physical anthropology department.[3] From 2005 until 2010, Robson Brown was a founding member of the Human Tissue Authority. In 2005, she was a co-chair of HTA's Import and export working group and Public display working group, as well as a lay member in HTA's Authority.[4]
During the 2011–12 academic term Robson Brown worked alongside geologist Nicholas Minter and biologist Nigel Franks to examine how nest architecture is influenced by factors both social and environmental.[5] The next academic term, Robson Brown earned a University Research Fellowship.[6] The 2015–16 academic year resulted in Robson Brown collaborating with the Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit at the University of Oxford to examine six mortuary chests within Winchester Cathedral.[7] She was later the recipient of Bristol's 2016/17 Engagement Award for her research project Skeletons: Our Buried Bones, in collaboration with Bristol Museums.[8]
She was appointed Director of the Jean Golding Institute in August 2017.[1] With her appointment, Robson Brown earned one of four APEX awards from the Royal Society to research how bones respond to stress.[9] The next year, she was named Turing University Lead after Bristol joined the Alan Turing Institute.[10] In 2019, Robson Brown and Heidi Dawson-Hobbis found that remains left behind in Winchester Cathedral belonged to 23 Anglo-Saxon kings and queens, rather than 11 people that was originally thought.[11] That year also brought about a collaboration between the Jean Golding Institute and Strathmore University Business School in Kenya.[12] She was also co-director of the Human Spaceflight Capitalisation Office in Harwell.[13]
References
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- ^ "Newnham College". becambridge.co.uk. 1997. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Professor Katharine Robson Brown". bristol.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ^ "Human Tissue Authority Annual Report and Accounts 2005/06" (PDF). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ "2011–12 review of the year" (PDF). bristol.ac.uk. p. 10. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Past University Research Fellows, Senior Research Fellows and Translational Neuroscience Research Fellows". bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Winchester Cathedral's mortuary chests unlocked". bristol.ac.uk. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ "Bones and quantum science: Engagement Award winners 2017". bristol.ac.uk. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
- ^ "Academic secures funding to better understand how bones respond to stress during growth". bristol.ac.uk. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Jean Golding Institute for Data Intensive Research" (PDF). bris.ac.uk. p. 10. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Keys, David (16 May 2019). "Bones unidentified for centuries may belong to one of England's most historically important queens". The Independent. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Partnership with Kenyan university will build data science expertise". bristol.ac.uk. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "2019 Speakers". ukspace2019.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.