Welcoming Dr Caitlin Robinson

Caitlin Robinson

I joined the Department of Geography and Planning and the Geographic Data Science Lab as a Lecturer in Urban Analytics in June 2020. As a quantitative human geographer, my research investigates the causes and consequences of different types of spatial inequality. I am especially interested in inequalities that relate to infrastructure, and much of my work has focused on energy poverty and energy justice. More recently my research has begun to explore how energy-related inequalities intersect with issues of transport poverty, digital exclusion and poor air quality.

Before joining Liverpool, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University. Here I was part of the Alan Turing Institute funded Spatial Inequality in the Smart City project. The project, which is still ongoing, explores the social and spatial inequalities embedded in sensor infrastructure increasingly deployed as part of smart city agendas.

Prior to joining Newcastle, I was a teaching-focused Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems at The University of Manchester where I completed my PhD in Human Geography. My PhD research focused on the geographies of vulnerability to energy poverty, an inability to access the socially and materially necessitated energy services in the home. My research examined the geographies of vulnerability to energy poverty in case studies of England and China, from the scale of the neighbourhood to the household.

I am currently Equality and Diversity Officer for the RGS Quantitative Methods Research Group, and a member of the Supergen Energy Networks ECR Committee and National GISRUK Steering Committee. I am also an Associate Editor in Urban Energy-End Use of the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Cities. In my spare time, I enjoy doing crafts, cycling, and eating donuts (to offset the cycling!).