Dr Caitlin Robinson
MSc, PgDip, PhD
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Current positions
Senior Research Fellow
School of Geographical Sciences
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Research interests
Caitlin Robinson is an Senior Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer in the School of Geographical Science at University of Bristol. Caitlin is currently leading a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project mapping ambient vulnerabilities in UK cities.
As a quantitative human geographer, Caitlin's research investigates the causes and consequences of different types of spatial inequality, with a particular interest in energy, infrastructure and climate. She takes a theory-led approach to spatial analyses, using quantitative, spatial datasets and methods to understand inequality across multiple scales.
Caitlin has preivously held positions as a Lecturer in Urban Analytics in the Department of Geography and Planning at University of Liverpool, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. Before joining Newcastle, Caitlin was a teaching-focused Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems at The University of Manchester where she also completed her PhD in Human Geography in 2019.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ESRC Smart Data Energy Centre
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
03/03/2025 to 31/07/2027
Supergen Energy Networks Hub 2
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/10/2023 to 30/09/2028
Supergen Energy Networks Impact Hub 2023
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
The global energy sector is facing considerable pressure arising from climate change, depletion of fossil fuels and geopolitical issues around the location of remaining fossil fuel reserves. Energy networks are…Managing organisational unit
School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2028
FLF - Mapping ambient vulnerabilities: Air-energy-climate interrelations in the urban environment and implications for cross-sectoral governance
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
30/05/2022 to 29/09/2025
Evaluation of energy network operator’s role in supporting vulnerable consumers during the energy crisis and net zero transition
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/01/2022 to 31/07/2023
Publications
Selected publications
30/01/2025Uneven ambient futures
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Ambient vulnerability
Global Environmental Change
Raising the temperature
Progress in Environmental Geography
Recent publications
13/02/2025A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city
The Geographical Journal
Housing and household vulnerabilities to summer overheating
Energy Research & Social Science
Optimizing air pollution sensing for social and environmental justice
Applied Geography
Raising the temperature
Progress in Environmental Geography
The nature of AI: Metabolism, energy, water, labour and justice in the urban political ecology of artificial intelligence
Urban Political Ecology
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