James Robson

Biographic Data

ID91141
NAMEJames Robson
GIVEN NAMESJames
FAMILY NAMERobson
SIGNATUREROBSON J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Saskatchewan
ORCID0000-0003-1900-6966
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS78
TOTAL CITATIONS120
AUTHOR COUNT77
EDITOR COUNT4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1782
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Mobile World

    Open AccessMohammed Abubakari, James Robson et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2026

  • Education and training for the climate

    Steve Puttick, James Robson et al.ARTICLEOxford Review of Education2026

    At the time of writing, the Natural History Museum in London is displaying an exhibition titled Fixing Our Broken Planet (see Figure 1): Figure 1. Fixing our Broken Planet, Natural History Museum

  • Rethinking education and training for the climate

    Open AccessJames Robson, Steve Puttick et al.ARTICLEOxford Review of Education2026

    Education and training (E&T) for the climate is gaining prominence in educational discourse. However, there is a danger that approaches focus on individual responsibility and changing the behaviours of learners rather than critically understanding and changing the system-level drivers of the climate crisis. Picking up litter is much more likely to be discussed than extractive economics. Therefore, we argue that the purpose of E&T for the climate …

  • Assessing the person or the project? How disciplinary ontological and epistemological assumptions shape doctoral admissions in elite UK institutions

    Open AccessKelsey Inouye, James Robson et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2026

    Research suggests there are notable differences in approaches to doctoral admissions and the criteria employed to select doctoral candidates. Through interviews with 65 academic staff involved in doctoral admissions at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, this paper examines how these different approaches to admissions play out in different disciplines, driving the disciplinary divergence in conceptualisations of the PhD and, in turn, admiss…

  • The gravity of the status quo

    Open AccessG Derrick, James Robson et al.ARTICLEHigher Education2025

    Using interviews with global research stakeholders, this research explores how stakeholders within research-system-level research governance organisations conceptualised, responded to, and reasoned the realities of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they positioned procedural changes to their governance mechanisms. Given that system shocks present critical challenges to established practices and embedded institutional norms, we u…

  • Intercultural networks deepen learning for transformative sustainability education

    Open AccessDanielle Spence, Maureen G Reed et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2025References: 11

    In this paper, we emphasize the value of an intercultural network of researchers, students, and practitioners engaged in co-creating and delivering transdisciplinary sustainability learning opportunities. The network, the Trans disciplinary E ducation C ollaboration for T ransformations in S ustainability (TRANSECTS), is a north–south partnership with hub universities in Canada, Germany, and South Africa. Here, we introduce one pathway for learni…

  • Land-based interactions and relationships in a pluralistic agrarian context

    Open AccessMohammed Abubakari, James Robson et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2025References: 18

  • The Cambridge World History of Sexualities

    Open AccessJames Robson, Aven Mcmaster et al.BOOKCambridge World History of…2024

    Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fif…

  • Sex in Athens in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries bce

    Open AccessJames RobsonCHAPTERCambridge World History of…2024

    This chapter presents an overview of, and insight into, the sexual lives of the inhabitants of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. It examines both public attitudes and private behaviours by focusing on three key areas: marriage, prostitution, and male same-sex relationships. The discussion of marriage looks at the traditional ages at which men and girls traditionally wed, how marital partners were chosen, and the emotional and sexual l…

  • Knowledge and (un)certainty in climate change education in India

    Open AccessSteve Puttick, Paloma Chandrachud et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2024Cited by: 3References: 49

    This paper explores teachers' conceptions of climate change knowledge, contributing to the growing body of work on the geographies of climate change. The paper focuses on the data generated through in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with a sample of 48 teachers in India to address the research question: What discourses about climate change knowledge are being constructed by teachers in India? We argue that teachers' lesson planning and searches …

  • Religion and Poetry in Medieval China

    Open AccessJ E E Pettit, Paul W Kroll et al.BOOKReligion and Poetry in Medieval…2023

    This volume of interdisciplinary essays examines the intersection of religion and literature in medieval China, focusing on the impact of Buddhism and Daoism on a wide range of elite and popular literary texts and religious practices in the third to eleventh centuries CE. Drawing on the work of the interdisciplinary scholar Stephen Bokenkamp, the essays weave together the many cross-currents of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions in …

  • Guiding principles for transdisciplinary sustainability research and practice

    Open AccessMaureen G Reed, James Robson et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    Transdisciplinary sustainability scientists are called to conduct research with community actors to understand and improve relations between people and nature. Yet, research hierarchies and power relations continue to favour western academic researchers who remain the gatekeepers of knowledge production and validation. To counter this imbalance, in 2018 we structured a multi‐day workshop to co‐design a set of principles to guide our own transdisc…

  • Intergenerational perceptions of the collective action challenges facing Mexican community forests

    Open AccessMatthew Jurjonas, Leticia Merino Pérez et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2023References: 60

  • Stigma and spoiled identities

    Open AccessJames RobsonARTICLEBritish Journal of Sociology of…2023Cited by: 2References: 39

    Despite the fact that precarious modes of employment have become increasingly common in academic careers, studies have shown that precarious contracts are often hidden and masked within higher education structures. This has important implications for the identities of those on such contracts. This paper uses Goffman’s work on stigma, ‘spoiled identities’, and identity management, and Archer’s concepts of morphostasis and morphogenesis as heuristi…

  • Battling for Latin

    Mair E Lloyd, James RobsonARTICLEThe Classical World2023

    Beginners' Latin courses play a crucial role in opening up the study of the ancient world to university students with little or no previous exposure to the language. Yet many learners struggle: in 2018, for example, 23% of undergraduates in UK universities either failed or withdrew from their beginners' Latin module. The current article reports on a series of semi-structured interviews dedicated to exploring with Latin students and their instruct…

  • Engaging youth in food preservation

    Open AccessMajing Oloko, Maureen G Reed et al.ARTICLECanadian Food Studies / La Revue…2022

    Youth in remote communities of Canada, including those in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region (CSUBR), can benefit from building food preservation knowledge because of the additional challenges they experience accessing healthy food. Regrettably, youth in these areas are not adequately engaged in food practices within households that support knowledge building. Schools and community food programs that serve to fill such learning gaps lack…

  • The Overdose Crisis and Using Alone

    Open AccessSaranee Fernando, Jennifer Hawkins et al.ARTICLESubstance Use & Misuse2022

    Background: A significant rise in the rate of overdose deaths in British Columbia (BC), driven by fentanyl contamination of the illicit drug supply, led to the declaration of a public health emergency in 2016. Those at greatest risk of death are people who use alone. This community-based participatory action research study based in the Fraser East region of BC study aimed to overview underlying factors that contribute to unwitnessed overdoses in …

  • Indigenous Communities, Migrant Organizations, and the Ephemeral Nature of Translocality

    Open AccessJames Robson, James Patrick RobsonARTICLELatin American Research Review2022

    This article reports on the current state of collective migrant organizing for two Indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. Strained relations between migrant organizations and village authorities combine with small active memberships to limit the level and type of fund-raising in support of village development and governance. These findings highlight the difficulties that communities face to maintain effective translocal institutions over time,…

  • Commons, global markets and small-scale family enterprises

    Open AccessMaría G Lira, James Robson et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2022References: 12

  • Employability skills in mainstream education

    Open AccessJames Robson, Ashmita Randhawa et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2022References: 10

    In England, the Studio Schools model, focused on developing employability skills in young people, represents a disruptive attempt at educational innovation. Through a documentary analysis of foundational documents, interviews with the model’s architects and case studies of five Studio Schools, we map the tensions between theoretical conceptualisations of the model and the messy realities of implementing it. We found that the schools faced a wide …

  • Research capacity-building in teacher education

    Alis Oancea, Nigel Fancourt et al.ARTICLEOxford Review of Education2021

    This paper reviews recent policy understandings of research capacity in teacher education in the UK. It then draws on a case study from Wales to suggest a conceptualisation of research capacity-building in teacher education that encompasses individual, organisational and systemic levels while remaining sensitive to the particulars of professional practice in teacher education. We argue that a healthy ecology of research-rich teacher education pra…

  • The Korean Pokchang Tradition and the Placing of Objects in Buddhist Statues

    James Robson, Seunghye Lee et al.ARTICLECahiers d Extrême-Asie2019

    Robson James, Lee Seunghye, Kim Youn-mi. The Korean Pokchang Tradition and the Placing of Objects in Buddhist Statues. In: Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie, vol. 28, 2019. Pokchang. Image Consecration in Korean Buddhism / Consécration des images dans le bouddhisme coréen. pp. 1-21

  • Engaging youth in conversations about community and forests

    Open AccessJames Robson, Hugo Asselin et al.ARTICLEWorld Development Perspectives2019References: 6

  • Exploring youth-community-forest linkages in rural Mexico

    Open AccessJames Robson, Fermín Sosa Peréz et al.ARTICLEWorld Development Perspectives2019Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Who Goes to College via Access Routes? A Comparative Study of Widening Participation Admission in Selective Universities in Ireland and England

    Open AccessKatriona O’sullivan, Delma Byrne et al.ARTICLESocial Inclusion2019Cited by: 1References: 3

    This article explores changing national widening participation (WP) policy and responses from Higher Education institutions (HEIs) from a cross-national perspective. Specifically, the use of contextualised admissions and the provision of foundation year programmes in selective universities in Ireland and England are the key foci of interest. Using data gathered from WP students in two selective universities in Ireland and England, we explore how …