Kate Robson Brown
Academic background
EducationBA (hons), MA, PhD
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Academic advisorsRob Foley
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity 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.

Career

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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Meet the team". bristol.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  2. ^ "Newnham College". becambridge.co.uk. 1997. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  3. ^ "Professor Katharine Robson Brown". bristol.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  4. ^ "Human Tissue Authority Annual Report and Accounts 2005/06" (PDF). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk. 2006. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  5. ^ "2011–12 review of the year" (PDF). bristol.ac.uk. p. 10. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Past University Research Fellows, Senior Research Fellows and Translational Neuroscience Research Fellows". bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  7. ^ "Winchester Cathedral's mortuary chests unlocked". bristol.ac.uk. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Bones and quantum science: Engagement Award winners 2017". bristol.ac.uk. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
  9. ^ "Academic secures funding to better understand how bones respond to stress during growth". bristol.ac.uk. 27 October 2017. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  10. ^ "Jean Golding Institute for Data Intensive Research" (PDF). bris.ac.uk. p. 10. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Partnership with Kenyan university will build data science expertise". bristol.ac.uk. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
  13. ^ "2019 Speakers". ukspace2019.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019.
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