Robert Dodgshon FLSW FBA is a British academic specialising in geography. He has been Emeritus Professor of Geography at Aberystwyth University since 2008.^[1]

Career

After graduating from Liverpool University with a BA and then a PhD,^[1] Dodgshon became Professor of Geography in 1988 at Aberystwyth University, eighteen years after being appointed in 1970.^[1] He also held the posts of Director of the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences (1998-2003) and Gregynog Professor of Human Geography (2000-2007) at Aberystwyth University.^[1][2] He is currently serving as an Emeritus Professor of Geography at Aberystwyth University, a post he has held since 2008.^[3]

As well as having worked as a Professor of Geography, Dodgshon has worked in nature conservation, having been the President of the Society for Landscape Studies from 1998 to 2008.^[2] During this time, he was also a council member of National Trust for England and Wales from 2000 to 2008,^[2] and a council member of the Countryside Council for Wales from 1997 to 2004.^[3]

Dodgshon's primary research interests have been in historical and cultural geography,^[3] and he has worked on the history of rural communities and their economy in the Scottish Highlands and Islands; he has written a book about this research.^[4]

Honours and awards

• Murchison Award from the RGS^[4]
• Scottish Geographical Medal from the RSGS^[4]
• Elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2002^[3]
• Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales 2010^[2]

Selected works

• Dodgshon, Robert (1998). Society in Time and Space: a Geographical Perspective on Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52159-385-9
• Dodgshon, Robert (2015). No Stone Unturned: A History of Farming, Landscape and Environment in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-47440-351-1
• Dodgshon, Robert (1998). From Chiefs to Landlords: Social and Economic Change in the Western Highlands and Islands, c. 1493-1820. Edinburgh: Edinbugh University Press. ISBN 978-0-74861-034-1
• Dodgshon, Robert; Butler, Robin (eds) (2013). Historical Geography of England and Wales. London; Academic Press Limited. ISBN 978-0-12219-254-0
• Dodgshon, R 2019, Farming Communities in the Western Alps, 1500-1914: the Enduring Bond. Historical Geography and Geosciences, Springer Nature. 10.1007/978-3-030-16361-7^[5]