Caitlin Robinson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584412 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Caitlin Robinson |
| NOMBRES | Caitlin |
| APELLIDO | Robinson |
| FIRMA | ROBINSON C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7653-359X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 193 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Indoor air quality vulnerability along the urban-rural continuum
People living in the Global North spend most of their time indoors in the built environment, especially their homes. Indoor air pollution has therefore become a major health concern, particularly in urban environments. Both exposure to poor-quality indoor environments, as well as vulnerability to adverse effects on health and well-being, have a unique geography, varying socially, spatially and temporally. Yet to date, the measurement of indoor ai…
A Net-Zero Vulnerability Index for Great Britain
National net-zero policies have varied regional impacts on patterns of investment and employment. In this paper, we introduce a Net-Zero Vulnerability Index for regions and Local Authority Districts (LADs) in England, Scotland and Wales. To do so, we draw on theories and methods from complexity economics and develop a measurement approach using measure of economic complexity, relatedness, reliance and population. Our results highlight LADs deemed…
Optimizing air pollution sensing for social and environmental justice
A spatial typology of energy (in)efficiency in the private rental sector in England and Wales using Energy Performance Certificates
Like many countries globally, the private rental sector in England and Wales contains some of the lowest quality and energy inefficient properties, despite being home to some of the most vulnerable households. We present a new data product that classifies small areas based on the energy (in)efficiency characteristics of private rental properties. Newly available Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data enables us to analyse detailed energy and h…
Reclaiming Data Science for Just Geographies
As data science increasingly shapes educational programmes, research agendas, and societal narratives, its practices have come under scrutiny for reinforcing historical inequalities, perpetuating biases, and neglecting critical engagement with issues of power, capital, and representation. Drawing upon critical theories-including decoloniality, intersectionality, radical transdisciplinarity, and reflexivity-this paper narratively explores the limi…
The Acceptability of a Tobacco Dependency Treatment for NHS Staff in the North East of England
The service was deemed highly acceptable, and service users' experiences informed recommendations for improving future tobacco dependency services. This is the first known application of the TFA to an evaluation of a smoking cessation intervention, and it contributes to a broader body of research on reducing tobacco dependency
Housing and household vulnerabilities to summer overheating
Increasing global warming and climate change pose a challenge for minimising overheating in buildings and the demand for mechanical cooling, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. A thorough understanding of the factors that influence overheating can facilitate the design of healthier and safer housing under a warming climate. Diverse social and material characteristics are known to shape vulnerability to indoor overheating. However, t…
The salt fringe as an energy periphery
Low‐carbon energy futures increasingly focus on improving the energy efficiency of homes to reduce emissions and living conditions. Energy efficiency can represent a justice‐led intervention supporting those most in need, living in the least efficient homes or with the least capacity to act, including many households relying on the private rental housing sector. This paper provides an empirically grounded intervention to argue for the necessity o…
Uneven ambient futures
Despite being one of the key mechanisms via which people are exposed (or not) to uncomfortable or dangerous ambient environments—the conditions of the air or other medium that surround us—housing is rarely considered in evaluation of future climatic changes and vulnerability, including extreme summer heat. Responding to increasing interest in futures across geography—particularly in a warming world—this paper conceptualises and analyses localised…
Raising the temperature
Heat is an increasingly defining characteristic of life in diverse regions globally, contributing to more human mortality than any other climate-related weather. As a spatio-temporal phenomena that is at once physical and meteorological, as well as environmental, social, technical, cultural, embodied, and political, geographers have much to contribute towards understanding heat and its differential impacts. However, critical geographical research…
Tracking spatio-temporal energy vulnerability
Energy vulnerability concerns a household that is unable to access a socially and materially necessitated level of energy service. The government’s fuel poverty metric which concerns fuel affordability and energy efficiency does not capture the broader range of factors that drive energy vulnerability within households. Research has addressed this gap by creating spatial composite indicators using a greater array of known drivers. However, the stu…
Mapping multidimensional energy deprivation
This work provides a thorough Energy Deprivation Segmentation (EDS) for Great Britain, which aims to address the complex and varied aspects of energy poverty in different small regions. By proposing a reproducible analytical framework, we combine many data sources to provide a comprehensive segmentation that encompasses various dimensions such as energy efficiency, accessibility, demand and supply, housing conditions, and financial vulnerability.…
A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city
This paper introduces a proof-of-concept spatial decision support system (SDSS) that assists decision-makers to generate equitably distributed sensor networks and evaluate their placement with reference to specific population-based coverage criteria. Our approach centres equity in infrastructure distribution; we focus on the decision-making process required to achieve the best possible sensor coverage of the geographical area for selected vulnera…
Energy inefficiency as a ‘poverty premium’
This paper presents the concept of energy inefficiency as a poverty premium. Whilst concepts of energy poverty, vulnerability, and justice have highlighted the uneven distribution and impacts of a lack of access to sufficient energy services, they do not fully capture how people who are already financially disadvantaged pay more as a result of energy inefficiency. We therefore draw on the well-established idea of the “poverty premium” – which has…
Ambient vulnerability
In this paper we introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability. Ambience concerns the overlapping and shifting material forms that constitute a person’s surroundings – including (but not limited to) air quality, flow, temperature, humidity, noise and light – that contribute to their health, wellbeing and (dis)comfort. Building on a growing movement across a range of disciplines towards the study of socialmaterial relations, we suggest that ambie…
Left Behind' neighbourhoods in England
The term 'left behind' has come to connote political disaffection, alongside social and spatial inequalities in wealth and opportunity. Yet the term is also widely contested, often prioritising a regional and economic perspective at the expense of a more local and nuanced approach. In response, we argue that neighbourhood context is integral to understanding and identifying 'left behind' places. Building a neighbourhood classification of 'left be…
Digitalisation without detriment
It is increasingly recognised that the future energy system will be digitalised, and that end-user engagements with this system will be digitally mediated by smart ICT. The digitalisation of the energy system promises significant benefits, but also risks replicating and entrenching persistent inequalities in the ability of households to access adequate energy services. Focusing on a case study of the United Kingdom, this paper explores the links …
Energy justice intermediaries
This paper foregrounds the use of “Living Labs” as instruments for the delivery of just low carbon transformations. Living Labs are commonly understood as stakeholder-centred, iterative and open-innovation ecosystems that involve multiple forms of co-creation and engagement among different actors in a given territory. Over a period of three years, thanks to a unique pan-European action research study, three such Labs were set up in different loca…
Whose geography do we review
In the context of discipline‐wide efforts to produce more inclusive, just, and equitable norms of geographical knowledge production, section editors for Geography Compass identify five concrete practices by which to address systemic inequities, injustices, and exclusions through their editorial work
A decade of fuel poverty in England
Like many forms of deprivation, fuel (or energy) poverty has been shown to concentrate spatially. However, there has been limited examination of its spatio-temporal dynamics, notwithstanding the evidence that prolonged periods without sufficient energy services in the home exacerbate negative welfare impacts. To better understand these dynamics, we evaluate how the distribution of relatively high levels of fuel poverty have changed over time acro…
Injustices at the air–energy nexus
This article maps the socio-technical interconnections between atmospheric systems, on the one hand, and the infrastructural networks associated with the extraction, production, transport and consumption of energy resources, on the other hand. The exchanges, interdependencies and injustices that arise at this interface can broadly be understood as the ‘air–energy nexus’. Despite energy inequalities almost always being entangled with some form of …
There is no formula for life and career’
Early career researchers (ECRs) encounter distinctive opportunities (and challenges) within the neoliberal academy. In this commentary, we reflect on issues common to ECR experiences in quantitative human geography. Our discussion is inspired by and develops conversations from a panel at the Royal Geographical Society‐Institute of British Geographers (RGS‐IBG) postgraduate forum, with panellists from across the subfield. While many aspects of the…
Sensing global changes in local patterns of energy consumption in cities during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
Optimizing for Equity
Decisions about sensor placement in cities are inherently complex, balancing social-technical, digital, and structural inequalities with the differential needs of populations, local stakeholder priorities, and the technical specificities of the sensors themselves. Rapid developments in urban data collection and geographic data science have the potential to support these decision-making processes. Focusing on a case study of air-quality sensors in…
Who Counts? Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human Geography
How academic disciplines are represented and reproduced is a charged issue. In geography in particular, the challenge is not only who counts, especially with regard to gender and other factors, but also how the boundaries of the discipline are drawn and which subfields are acknowledged. This article contributes to both aspects of the discussion by extending recent research on gender, internationalization, and academic gatekeeping to additional su…
China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is heralded as the largest investment in infrastructure in history and is expected to re-shape the geographies of urbanisation in the coming decades. In this paper we review the burgeoning, yet still embryonic literature on the BRI. Our aim is to move beyond currently dominant framings of the BRI as a geopolitical or economic strategy that tend to overlook the complex embeddedness of infrastructure. Drawing …
Energy poverty and gender in England
A growing research agenda has sought to understand the substantial inequalities that exist in domestic energy provision. One way in which these inequalities are shaped is through socio-spatially contingent gender relations, an area underexplored with regards to energy poverty. This paper aims to uncover the spatialities of gender and energy poverty. It argues that established energy vulnerability frameworks can challenge the assumption that gende…
The Spatially Varying Components of Vulnerability to Energy Poverty
A household’s vulnerability to energy poverty is socially and spatially variable. Efforts to measure energy poverty, however, have focused on narrow, expenditure-based metrics or area-based targeting. These metrics are not spatial per se, because the relative importance of drivers does not vary between neighborhoods to reflect localized challenges. Despite recent advancements in geographically weighted methodologies that have the potential to yie…
Getting the measure of fuel poverty’
Recognition of the negative impacts of fuel poverty, a lack of sufficient energy services in the home, has generated considerable interest in how the phenomenon can best be measured. Subsequently, the most well-known indicators deployed in policy-making, the established 10% indicator and the recent Low Income High Cost (LIHC) indicator, have generated considerable discussion and critique. One facet of the debate that remains unexplored is the eff…
Double energy vulnerability
The sensor desert quandary
As a central component of the smart city, sensor infrastructures locate and measure a wide range of variables in order to characterise the urban environment. Perhaps the most visible expression of the smart city, sensor deployment is a key equity concern. As new sensor technologies and Big Data interact with social processes, they have the potential to reproduce well‐documented spatial injustices. Contrary to promises of providing new knowledge a…
Left Behind' neighbourhoods in England
The term 'left behind' has come to connote political disaffection, alongside social and spatial inequalities in wealth and opportunity. Yet the term is also widely contested, often prioritising a regional and economic perspective at the expense of a more local and nuanced approach. In response, we argue that neighbourhood context is integral to understanding and identifying 'left behind' places. Building a neighbourhood classification of 'left be…
Optimizing for Equity
Decisions about sensor placement in cities are inherently complex, balancing social-technical, digital, and structural inequalities with the differential needs of populations, local stakeholder priorities, and the technical specificities of the sensors themselves. Rapid developments in urban data collection and geographic data science have the potential to support these decision-making processes. Focusing on a case study of air-quality sensors in…
Ambient vulnerability
In this paper we introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability. Ambience concerns the overlapping and shifting material forms that constitute a person’s surroundings – including (but not limited to) air quality, flow, temperature, humidity, noise and light – that contribute to their health, wellbeing and (dis)comfort. Building on a growing movement across a range of disciplines towards the study of socialmaterial relations, we suggest that ambie…
A decade of fuel poverty in England
Like many forms of deprivation, fuel (or energy) poverty has been shown to concentrate spatially. However, there has been limited examination of its spatio-temporal dynamics, notwithstanding the evidence that prolonged periods without sufficient energy services in the home exacerbate negative welfare impacts. To better understand these dynamics, we evaluate how the distribution of relatively high levels of fuel poverty have changed over time acro…
Extreme events, energy security and equality through micro- and macro-levels
Uneven ambient futures
Despite being one of the key mechanisms via which people are exposed (or not) to uncomfortable or dangerous ambient environments—the conditions of the air or other medium that surround us—housing is rarely considered in evaluation of future climatic changes and vulnerability, including extreme summer heat. Responding to increasing interest in futures across geography—particularly in a warming world—this paper conceptualises and analyses localised…
Raising the temperature
Heat is an increasingly defining characteristic of life in diverse regions globally, contributing to more human mortality than any other climate-related weather. As a spatio-temporal phenomena that is at once physical and meteorological, as well as environmental, social, technical, cultural, embodied, and political, geographers have much to contribute towards understanding heat and its differential impacts. However, critical geographical research…
Energy inefficiency as a ‘poverty premium’
This paper presents the concept of energy inefficiency as a poverty premium. Whilst concepts of energy poverty, vulnerability, and justice have highlighted the uneven distribution and impacts of a lack of access to sufficient energy services, they do not fully capture how people who are already financially disadvantaged pay more as a result of energy inefficiency. We therefore draw on the well-established idea of the “poverty premium” – which has…
Underrepresenting neighbourhood vulnerabilities? The measurement of fuel poverty in England
The vulnerabilities that enhance the likelihood of a household falling into fuel poverty are increasingly recognised as highly multidimensional and geographical. However, the most established indicators used to measure fuel poverty are primarily based upon expenditure. This paper seeks to understand to what extent expenditure-based indicators succeed in representing wider socio-spatial vulnerabilities that manifest in particular locales. Our anal…
Housing and household vulnerabilities to summer overheating
Increasing global warming and climate change pose a challenge for minimising overheating in buildings and the demand for mechanical cooling, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. A thorough understanding of the factors that influence overheating can facilitate the design of healthier and safer housing under a warming climate. Diverse social and material characteristics are known to shape vulnerability to indoor overheating. However, t…
Mapping multidimensional energy deprivation
This work provides a thorough Energy Deprivation Segmentation (EDS) for Great Britain, which aims to address the complex and varied aspects of energy poverty in different small regions. By proposing a reproducible analytical framework, we combine many data sources to provide a comprehensive segmentation that encompasses various dimensions such as energy efficiency, accessibility, demand and supply, housing conditions, and financial vulnerability.…
A spatial decision support framework for equitable sensor network distribution in the smart city
This paper introduces a proof-of-concept spatial decision support system (SDSS) that assists decision-makers to generate equitably distributed sensor networks and evaluate their placement with reference to specific population-based coverage criteria. Our approach centres equity in infrastructure distribution; we focus on the decision-making process required to achieve the best possible sensor coverage of the geographical area for selected vulnera…
Sensing global changes in local patterns of energy consumption in cities during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
Wasta Capital
Getting the measure of fuel poverty’
Recognition of the negative impacts of fuel poverty, a lack of sufficient energy services in the home, has generated considerable interest in how the phenomenon can best be measured. Subsequently, the most well-known indicators deployed in policy-making, the established 10% indicator and the recent Low Income High Cost (LIHC) indicator, have generated considerable discussion and critique. One facet of the debate that remains unexplored is the eff…
Underrepresenting neighbourhood vulnerabilities? The measurement of fuel poverty in England
The vulnerabilities that enhance the likelihood of a household falling into fuel poverty are increasingly recognised as highly multidimensional and geographical. However, the most established indicators used to measure fuel poverty are primarily based upon expenditure. This paper seeks to understand to what extent expenditure-based indicators succeed in representing wider socio-spatial vulnerabilities that manifest in particular locales. Our anal…
SIGGRAPH 2019 Art Gallery
August 01 2019 SIGGRAPH 2019 Art Gallery John Wong, John Wong John Wong Art, Hong Kong, www.johnwong.asiaJohn Wong is a multimedia artist. His work is always questioning the ideas of trust, self-identity, modern superstition over the relationship of Chinese traditional cultures and new technology. Algorithmic installation art RuShi just exhibited at Microwave International New Media Arts Festival 2018. His debut feature, The Tourist, was screened…
Energy poverty and gender in England
A growing research agenda has sought to understand the substantial inequalities that exist in domestic energy provision. One way in which these inequalities are shaped is through socio-spatially contingent gender relations, an area underexplored with regards to energy poverty. This paper aims to uncover the spatialities of gender and energy poverty. It argues that established energy vulnerability frameworks can challenge the assumption that gende…
The Spatially Varying Components of Vulnerability to Energy Poverty
A household’s vulnerability to energy poverty is socially and spatially variable. Efforts to measure energy poverty, however, have focused on narrow, expenditure-based metrics or area-based targeting. These metrics are not spatial per se, because the relative importance of drivers does not vary between neighborhoods to reflect localized challenges. Despite recent advancements in geographically weighted methodologies that have the potential to yie…
Double energy vulnerability
The sensor desert quandary
As a central component of the smart city, sensor infrastructures locate and measure a wide range of variables in order to characterise the urban environment. Perhaps the most visible expression of the smart city, sensor deployment is a key equity concern. As new sensor technologies and Big Data interact with social processes, they have the potential to reproduce well‐documented spatial injustices. Contrary to promises of providing new knowledge a…
China's Belt and Road Initiative and the emerging geographies of global urbanisation
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is heralded as the largest investment in infrastructure in history and is expected to re-shape the geographies of urbanisation in the coming decades. In this paper we review the burgeoning, yet still embryonic literature on the BRI. Our aim is to move beyond currently dominant framings of the BRI as a geopolitical or economic strategy that tend to overlook the complex embeddedness of infrastructure. Drawing …
Who Counts? Gender, Gatekeeping, and Quantitative Human Geography
How academic disciplines are represented and reproduced is a charged issue. In geography in particular, the challenge is not only who counts, especially with regard to gender and other factors, but also how the boundaries of the discipline are drawn and which subfields are acknowledged. This article contributes to both aspects of the discussion by extending recent research on gender, internationalization, and academic gatekeeping to additional su…
Extreme events, energy security and equality through micro- and macro-levels
Injustices at the air–energy nexus
This article maps the socio-technical interconnections between atmospheric systems, on the one hand, and the infrastructural networks associated with the extraction, production, transport and consumption of energy resources, on the other hand. The exchanges, interdependencies and injustices that arise at this interface can broadly be understood as the ‘air–energy nexus’. Despite energy inequalities almost always being entangled with some form of …
There is no formula for life and career’
Early career researchers (ECRs) encounter distinctive opportunities (and challenges) within the neoliberal academy. In this commentary, we reflect on issues common to ECR experiences in quantitative human geography. Our discussion is inspired by and develops conversations from a panel at the Royal Geographical Society‐Institute of British Geographers (RGS‐IBG) postgraduate forum, with panellists from across the subfield. While many aspects of the…
Sensing global changes in local patterns of energy consumption in cities during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic
Optimizing for Equity
Decisions about sensor placement in cities are inherently complex, balancing social-technical, digital, and structural inequalities with the differential needs of populations, local stakeholder priorities, and the technical specificities of the sensors themselves. Rapid developments in urban data collection and geographic data science have the potential to support these decision-making processes. Focusing on a case study of air-quality sensors in…
Digitalisation without detriment
It is increasingly recognised that the future energy system will be digitalised, and that end-user engagements with this system will be digitally mediated by smart ICT. The digitalisation of the energy system promises significant benefits, but also risks replicating and entrenching persistent inequalities in the ability of households to access adequate energy services. Focusing on a case study of the United Kingdom, this paper explores the links …
Energy justice intermediaries
This paper foregrounds the use of “Living Labs” as instruments for the delivery of just low carbon transformations. Living Labs are commonly understood as stakeholder-centred, iterative and open-innovation ecosystems that involve multiple forms of co-creation and engagement among different actors in a given territory. Over a period of three years, thanks to a unique pan-European action research study, three such Labs were set up in different loca…
Whose geography do we review
In the context of discipline‐wide efforts to produce more inclusive, just, and equitable norms of geographical knowledge production, section editors for Geography Compass identify five concrete practices by which to address systemic inequities, injustices, and exclusions through their editorial work
A decade of fuel poverty in England
Like many forms of deprivation, fuel (or energy) poverty has been shown to concentrate spatially. However, there has been limited examination of its spatio-temporal dynamics, notwithstanding the evidence that prolonged periods without sufficient energy services in the home exacerbate negative welfare impacts. To better understand these dynamics, we evaluate how the distribution of relatively high levels of fuel poverty have changed over time acro…
Energy inefficiency as a ‘poverty premium’
This paper presents the concept of energy inefficiency as a poverty premium. Whilst concepts of energy poverty, vulnerability, and justice have highlighted the uneven distribution and impacts of a lack of access to sufficient energy services, they do not fully capture how people who are already financially disadvantaged pay more as a result of energy inefficiency. We therefore draw on the well-established idea of the “poverty premium” – which has…
Ambient vulnerability
In this paper we introduce the concept of ambient vulnerability. Ambience concerns the overlapping and shifting material forms that constitute a person’s surroundings – including (but not limited to) air quality, flow, temperature, humidity, noise and light – that contribute to their health, wellbeing and (dis)comfort. Building on a growing movement across a range of disciplines towards the study of socialmaterial relations, we suggest that ambie…
Left Behind' neighbourhoods in England
The term 'left behind' has come to connote political disaffection, alongside social and spatial inequalities in wealth and opportunity. Yet the term is also widely contested, often prioritising a regional and economic perspective at the expense of a more local and nuanced approach. In response, we argue that neighbourhood context is integral to understanding and identifying 'left behind' places. Building a neighbourhood classification of 'left be…
Optimizing air pollution sensing for social and environmental justice
A spatial typology of energy (in)efficiency in the private rental sector in England and Wales using Energy Performance Certificates
Like many countries globally, the private rental sector in England and Wales contains some of the lowest quality and energy inefficient properties, despite being home to some of the most vulnerable households. We present a new data product that classifies small areas based on the energy (in)efficiency characteristics of private rental properties. Newly available Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data enables us to analyse detailed energy and h…
Reclaiming Data Science for Just Geographies
As data science increasingly shapes educational programmes, research agendas, and societal narratives, its practices have come under scrutiny for reinforcing historical inequalities, perpetuating biases, and neglecting critical engagement with issues of power, capital, and representation. Drawing upon critical theories-including decoloniality, intersectionality, radical transdisciplinarity, and reflexivity-this paper narratively explores the limi…
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