Career
Robson Brown joined the faculty at the University of Bristol in 1997 after earning her PhD. [2] She was elected into a Phyllis and Eileen Gibbs Travelling Research Fellowships. [3] In her early years at Bristol,she developed the UK's first tomography laboratory within a forensic or physical anthropology department. [4] 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. [5]
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. [6] The next academic term,Robson Brown earned a University Research Fellowship. [7] 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. [8] 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. [9]
She was appointed Director of the Jean Golding Institute in August 2017. [2] With her appointment,Robson Brown earned one of four APEX awards from the Royal Society to research how bones respond to stress. [10] The next year,she was named Turing University Lead after Bristol joined the Alan Turing Institute. [11] 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. [12] That year also brought about a collaboration between the Jean Golding Institute and Strathmore University Business School in Kenya. [13] She was also co-director of the Human Spaceflight Capitalisation Office in Harwell. [14]
In March 2024 she was appointed as the Vice President for Research,Innovation and Impact at UCD. [15]
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