Guy Robinson
Visiting Professor
Teaching Areas
Rural Geography (more information to follow)
Research Areas
Rural Geography and Agriculture (More information to follow)
Qualifications
BSc (London), 1973
DPhil (Oxon), 1977
Career Summary
2008- Director of the Centre for Rural Health and Community Development, University of South Australia
1994-2008 Professor, Kingston University, Surrey
1995/6 Member of HEFCE Research Assessment Panel for Geography
1989-94 Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, University
of Edinburgh
1993 Awarded President’s Medal, Royal Scottish Geographical
Society
1979-88 Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh.
1977-8 Demonstrator and Radcliffe Meteorological Observer, School
of Geography,
University of Oxford.
Selected Publications
2000 An Economic and Social Geography of Australia and New Zealand, Edward Arnold, London (first author, with Robert Loughran and Paul Tranter), 391pp.
A 'new-style' regional geography in a new series. [released Dec 1999]
1999 (first author, with M. Lind) ‘Set-aside and environment: a case study in Southern England’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 90, 296-311.
1999 ‘Using TQA and the RAE as management tools’, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 23 (3):403-7.
1999 ‘Countryside recreation management’, in Pacione, M. (ed.) Applied geography (Routledge, London), pp. 257-73.
1998 ‘Agricultural land use in the Belize river valley’, pp. 118-24 in Barker, D., Newby, C. and Morrisey, M. (eds.), A reader in Caribbean geography (Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica).
1998 'Agricultural land use in the Belize river valley', pp. 118-24 in Barker, D., Newby, C. and Morrisey, M. (eds.), A reader in Caribbean geography (Ian Randle Publishers, Kingston, Jamaica).
1988 Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques in Human Geography. London and New York: Wiley.
Robinson, G.M. 1997. Community-based planning: Canada's Atlantic Action Programme (ACAP). Geographical Journal, 163, 25-37
Ghaffar, A. & Robinson, G. 1997. Restoring the agricultural landscape: the impact of government policies in East Lothian, Scotland. Geoforum, 28, 205-217
Read, A.D., Phillips, P.S. & Robinson, G. 1997. Landfill as a future waste management option in England: the view of landfill operators. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 20, 183-205
Other Professional Activites
External Examiner and Adviser, Anglia Polytechnic University
External Adviser, re: restructuring of Geography, University of Huddersfield
British Council CICHE Link Co-ordinator (with ITM Univ., Malaysia)
President, British Australian Studies Association
Co-founder of the Waste & Environmental Management Research Unit (KU)
Invited Speaker, EU Support Framework Symposium, University of the Aegean
Member of Steering Committee, DfEE Discipline Network in Wastes Management
Advisor on EU Tempus programme for the reconstruction of Bosnia
Editorial Board: Land Use Policy; New Zealand Geographer
External Examiner, De Montfort University; University College Northampton
Co-founder of the Centre of Earth and Environmental Science Research (KU)
Corresponding Member, IGU Commission on Sustainable Rural Systems
Head of Organising Institution for IBG/RGS Annual Conference
External Examiner, King's College, London (MA/MSc in Geography)
