麻豆传媒

Introduction

A lecture in data-centric engineering my work across research and teaching focuses on the use of data, in particular spatial data, within engineering disciplines, with a strong focus on civil engineering. My research interests broadly span climate change impacts on infrastructure, complex networks, spatial data management, and integrated assessment frameworks. I sit within the Geospatial Engineering group, School of Engineering, where I completed a PhD in 2017 and worked as a researcher before being appointed to my current position.

Supervision (PhD)

• Dea Bestari - TBC
• Nadia Sikfa - Modelling of tailings dam failures
• - The future of active travel networks
• (Sheffield Unviersity) - Resilience of global networks to extreme climate change hazards
• - Digital twin concepts to understand urban dynamics and provide real-time situational awareness

Areas of expertise

• Geospatial data management
• Infrastructure network analysis
• Integrated assessment frameworks
• Network complexity
• Data visualisation
• GIS

External roles

GISRUK conference & seminar series national Chair -

(Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) Champion

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Research interests in GIS, digital solutions and geospatial data science for exploring the impact of climate change, with a focus on how we use data and modelling techniques to help address related challenges. Experience in particular in the resilience of infrastructure networks to climate hazards, network complexity science, integrated assessment frameworks and digital twins.

Recent and ongoing projects:

• MACC Hub (Co-Investigator) - Co-Investigator on the Maximising Adaptation for Climate Change hub
• OpenCLIM (Co-Investigator) - - Developing an open framework for assessing the impact and adaptation scenarios across multiple sectors in the UK within an integrated assessment framework
• NERC Digital Solutions Hub (Co-Investigator) - - How to open up many of the digital data assets held by NERC to make them more accessible and useable to the wider research community
• UKCR - UK Climate Resilience Programme (Principal Investigator) - Assessing the success of the programme with regard to the development of decision support tools within the domain of climate resilience
• FloodPrepared - Developing real time rainfall and flood modelling platform for urban areas to improve resilience to short duration intense rainfall events

My teaching is focused on developing digital skills across a number of courses for undergraduate and post-graduate students. This includes data handling and management, spatial data, GIS, fundamentals of programming, data science, visualisation and emerging digital tools such as BIM and digital twins.

I currently lead 3 modules (1 undergraduate, 2 postgraduate), while contributing to many others across geospatial degrees and civil engineering degrees.

I also undertake student supervision for both undergraduate and post-graduate projects, as well as PhD supervision and always happy to support projects where possible.

Primary teaching

• CEG3005 - The data-centric urban environment
• CEG3701 - GIS Fieldcourse
• CEG3718 - BIM and City Modelling
• CEG3719 - Geospatial Data, Analytics and AI
• CEG8006 - Digital Engineering and Analytics
• CEG8419 - Modelling and Analysis of Travel and Transport Behavior
• CEG8705 - Geographic Information Systems
• ENG1008 - Introduction to Programming
• Supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate students

• Articles

  • Kennedy-Asser AT, Andrews OD, Montgomery J, Jenkins KL, Smith BAH, Lewis E, Birkinshaw SJ, He H, Pywell RF, Brown MJ, Redhead JW, Warren R, Robson C, Smith AJP, Nicholls RJ, Mullan D, McGuire R. . Climate Risk Management 2025, 48, 100702.
  • Larkin C, Robson C, Ford A. . Journal of Cycling and Micromobility Research 2025, 6, 100097.
  • Zhu, Calderon C, Ford A, Robson C, Jin J. . Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure 2026, 11(3), 267-300.
  • Butters O, Robson C, McClean F, Glenis V, Virgo J, Ford A, Iliadis C, Dawson R. . Environmental Modelling and Software 2025, 185, 106302.
  • Wolf K, Dawson RJ, Mills JP, Blythe P, Robson C, Morley J. . Resilient Cities and Structures 2023, 2(2), 24-41.
  • Li Q, Punzo G, Robson C, Arbabi H, Mayfield M. . IEEE Systems Journal 2023, 18(1), 24-35.
  • Jenkins K, Ford A, Robson C, Nicholls R. . Climate Risk Management 2022, 36, 100430.
  • Peppa MV, Komar T, Xiao W, James P, Robson C, Xing J, Barr S. . Sensors 2021, 21(2), 629.
  • Robson C, Barr S, Ford A, James P. . Applied Network Science 2021, 6(1), 65.
  • Pregnolato M, Ford A, Robson C, Glenis V, Barr S, Dawson RJ. . Royal Society Open Science 2016, 3(5), 160023.

• Book Chapters

  • Perks R, Robson C, Arnell N, Cooper J, Dawkins L, Fuller E, Kennedy-Asser A, Nicholls R, Ramsey Vi. . In: Dessai, S; Lonsdale, K; Lowe, J; Harcourt, R, ed. Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK. Springer International Publishing, 2024, pp.111--127.
  • Barr S, Alderson D, Ives MC, Robson C. . In: Hall, Jim W.; Tran, Martino; Hickford, Adrian J.; Nicholls, Robert J, ed. The Future of National Infrastructure: A System-of-Systems Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2016.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Barr SL, Johnson S, Ming X, Peppa M, Dong N, Wen Z, Robson C, Smith L, James P, Wilkinson D, Heaps S, Laing Q, Xiao W, Dawson R, Ranjan R. . In: 5th International Conference on Smart Data and Smart Cities. 2020, Nice, France: Copernicus GmbH.
  • Schoenmakers R, Ives M, Robson C, Nagella S, Fowler R, Chorlton S, Yang E, Hall JW. . In: Third Conference of Research Software Engineers. 2018, Birmingham.
  • Barr SL, Robson C, Pregnolato M, Ji Q. NISMOD-DB++: A next generation spatiotemporal database framework for infrastructure systems analytics and modelling. In: ISNGI. 2017. In Preparation.
  • Ives MC, Silberman A, Letti B, Large J, Blainey S, Choundry M, Baruah P, Robson C, Usher W, Hall JW. . In: International Symposia for Next Generation Infrastructure. 2017, London, UK.
  • Robson C, Barr SL, James P, Ford A. . In: GISRUK. 2017, Manchester, UK.
  • Robson C, Barr S, James P, Ford A. . In: GISRUK. 2015, Leeds.
  • Harris N, Robson C, Barr SL, James P. . In: GISRUK. 2015, Leeds, UK.
  • Alderson D, Barr SL, Holderness T, Robson C, Ford A, Kennedy-Walker R. . In: 23rd GIS Research UK (GISRUK). 2015, Leeds, UK.
  • Robson C, Barr S, James P, Ford A. . In: International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure. 2014, Vienna, Austria.
  • Barr SL, Alderson D, Robson C, Otto A, Hall J, Thacker S, Pant R. . In: International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure. 2013, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
  • Barr SL, Holderness T, Alderson D, Robson C, Ford A. . In: 4th Open Source GIS Conference - OSGIS 2012. 2012, Nottingham: Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham.

• Note

  • Smith AJP, Minns A, Nicholls RJ, Beswick A, Jenkins K, Avrutin S, Robson C. . Climate Risk Management 2025, 48, 100701.