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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 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 poverty and energy justice. She takes a theory-led approach to spatial analyses, using quantitative, spatial datasets and methods to understand inequality across multiple scales.
From 2020 until 2022, Caitlin was a Lecturer in Urban Analytics in the Department of Geography and Planning at University of Liverpool. Previously, Caitlin was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. Here she worked on the Alan Turing Institute funded 'Spatial Inequality in the Smart City' project. This project explored the social and spatial inequalities embedded in sensor infrastructure increasingly deployed in cities.
Before joining Newcastle, Cait 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. Her PhD focused upon the geographies of vulnerability to energy poverty in case studies of England and China.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Supergen Energy Networks Hub 2
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/10/2023 to 30/09/2028
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
Mapping ambient vulnerabilities: Air-energy-climate interrelations in the urban environment and implications for cross-sectoral governance.
Principal Investigator
Description
From its temperature and humidity, to its toxicty, our immediate ambient environment is essential to health, comfort, and wellbeing, determining the fulfilment of a person's most fundamental needs. The ambient…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/10/2021 to 01/10/2025
Digital inclusion in the future energy system
Principal Investigator
Description
Establishing shared principles and a research agenda Energy network approaches anticipate that the UK energy system will require higher end-user engagement and flexibility, such as through peak load shifting, and…Managing organisational unit
School of Geographical SciencesDates
01/05/2020 to 01/05/2021
Publications
Selected publications
24/09/2020The sensor desert quandary: What does it mean (not) to count in the smart city?
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Sensing global changes in local patterns of energy consumption in cities during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic
Cities
Double energy vulnerability: Spatial intersections of domestic and transport energy poverty in England
Energy Research and Social Science
Recent publications
23/01/2024Ambient vulnerability
Global Environmental Change
Extracting Features from Satellite Imagery to Understand the Size and Scale of Housing Sub-Markets in Madrid
Land
Intra-urban house prices in Madrid following the financial crisis: an exploration of spatial inequality
NPJ Urban Sustainability
‘Left Behind’ neighbourhoods in England:
The Geographical Journal
Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Gas Consumption in England and Wales:
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy