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Dr Elsbeth Robson
Elsbeth Robson
Reader in Human Geography
| Post Nominals | BSc, MA, DPhil, FRGS, SFHEA, UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor |
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| Biography | Elsbeth is a human and development geographer with research and teaching interests in social inequality, ethics and social justice, particularly with respect to women and children/youth. Her research embraces qualitative, participatory and quantitative research methods. Geographically her research concentrates on sub-Saharan Africa. In the UK Dr Elsbeth Robson has been employed by/affiliated with the Universities of Keele, Durham, Liverpool and Brunel and in Africa the University of Malawi and Ahmadhu Bello University, Nigeria. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Zimbabwe, Gothenborg University (Sweden), University of Oulu (Finland) and Leiden University (Netherlands). Founding chair Save the children UK Research and Evaluation Ethics Committee ( 2016 - 2019). Co-Editor Children's Geographies journal (Taylor & Francis) 2012-2015. Invited contributor to UNICEF Expert round table on children's Care Work, Florence, Dec 2016. Consultant for and contributor to UNICEF Ethical Research Involving Children: International Charter and Guidelines www.childethics.com FRGS (Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, since 1990) Former Member of the Association of American Geographers Council member, African Studies Association UK SFHEA (Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, since 2015) UKCGE Recognised Research Supervisor (2022) |
| Research Interests | Engagement with policy and practice underlies my research / consultancy and I have considerable experience of knowledge exchange ensuring policy relevance and maximum impact. My recent research and consultancy in Malawi (since 2004) involves collaborating internationally with universities, government and non-governmental organizations; while being informed by political economy and feminist theoretical approaches (with a concern for ethics). Knowledges, Cultures & Space research group Institute of Applied Ethics Centre for Spirituality Studies Major research projects: Building an Evidence Base to Support and Enhance Community Health Workers' (informal) use of Mobile Phones in Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia MRC-Wellcome Trust-DFID-ESRC 2018-2019 £197,472 PI Prof Kate Hampshire (Durham) Social Cash Transfers, generational relations and youth poverty trajectories in rural Lesotho and Malawi ESRC-DFID PI Prof Nicola Ansell (Brunel), CoIs Robson, van Blerk, Hajdu, Mwathunga, Hlabana 2015-2019, £338,000 https://www.brunel.ac.uk/research/Projects/cash-transfers-youth# Mobile Phones and Youth in Africa ESRC-DFID PI Prof Gina Porter (Durham) co-I Kate Hampshire (Durham) et al 2012-2015, £460,000 https://www.dur.ac.uk/child.phones/ Children, Transport and Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa Developing a Child-Centred Evidence Base to Improve Policy and Change Thinking Across Africa ESRC-DFID PI Prof Gina Porter (Durham), co-I Kate Hampshire (Durham) et al 2006-2009, £353,932. https://www.dur.ac.uk/child.mobility/ Averting 'New Variant Famine' in Southern Africa: building food-secure livelihoods with AIDS-affected young people DFID-ESRC £201,757 2007-8 PI Prof Nicola Ansell (Durham), Co-Is Lorraine van Blerk (Dundee) & Elsbeth Robson |
| Teaching and Learning | 400145 Exploring Worlds Around Us 400150 Development and Change (module leader) 600266 Dissertation in Human Geography 600256 Conservation in a Changing World 600250 Feeding the City 600249 Cities and Regions 700208 Contemporary Research in Human Geography (module leader) 701285 DTP Doctoral Training Year 1 (module leader) 700449 Dissertation Geography (module leader) |
| Scopus Author ID | 7006811836 |