Kate Robson Brown
British Academic
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Katharine A. Robson Brown is an Academic, professor and researcher in Biological Archeology and Engineering. She is Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact at the University College Dublin. She is also a co-chair of the Space Academic Network, a Board member of the UK Life and Biomedical Sciences Association, and a member of the Space Partnership Board.[1]
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Kate Robson Brown | |
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| Occupations | Vice President for Reaserch, Innovation and Impact at UCD |
| Years active | 1992 - |
| Board member of | Space Academic Network, UK Life and Biomedical Sciences Association |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA (hons), MA, PhD |
| Alma mater | University of CambridgeUniversity of Bristol |
| Academic advisor | Rob Foley |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University College Dublin |
| Website | https://www.ucd.ie/president/about/universityleadership/universitymanagementteam/katerobsonbrown/ |
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]