Kate Robson Brown | |
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| Education | BA (hons), MA, PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Academic advisors | Rob Foley |
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| Institutions | University of Bristol |
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.
Robson 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]
The University of Bristol is a red brick Russell Group research university in Bristol,England. It received its royal charter in 1909,although it can trace its roots to a Merchant Venturers' school founded in 1595 and University College,Bristol,which had been in existence since 1876.
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Margaret Ann Boden is a Research Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex,where her work embraces the fields of artificial intelligence,psychology,philosophy,and cognitive and computer science.
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Alice May Roberts is an English academic,TV presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was president of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. She is now a vice president of the organisation.
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Olivette Otele FLSW is a historian and distinguished research professor at SOAS in London. She was previously Professor of the History of Slavery at Bristol University. She was Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society,and Chair of Bristol's Race Equality Commission. She is an expert on the links between history,memory,and geopolitics in relation to French and British colonial pasts. She is the first Black woman to be appointed to a professorial chair in History in the United Kingdom.
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Ruth King FRSE FLSW is the current Thomas Bayes' Chair of Statistics in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh,having held the position since 2015. Prior to this she held positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews.
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Claire Haworth is a reader in behavioural genetics and co-director of the Dynamic Genetics Lab at the University of Bristol.
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