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ProfessorElsbeth Robson

(she/her)

Professor - TLF

Institute Of Law And Social Sciences

Orcid identifier0000-0003-3513-460X
  • Professor - TLF
    Institute Of Law And Social Sciences

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

Geography

 

MSc Environmental Management

MSc Geographical Information Systems

MSc Independent Projects

 

Postgraduate supervision

 

Current PhD students:

  • Eloise Jones (2026-) 'Experiences of green exercise for people living with osteoarthritis'
  • Faraja Kirubi (C4 ESRC studentship 2025-2028) 'Co-producing inclusive leadership for social connectedness and resiliance: A participatory study with Maasai communities in Northern Tanzania'
  • Saira Mian (University of Hull studentship 2022-2025) 'Mapping geographical intersectional inequalities in deathscapes and topographies of bereavement'
  • Emmanuel Mawuli Abalo (ESRC WRDTP studentship 1+3 2021-2025) 'The governance and politics of plastic waste management in Ghana'
  • Thandie Hlabana (Leverhulme Centre for Water Cultures scholarship 2022-2026) 'Gendered survival: Women and water crises in Southern Africa'

 

Completed PhD supervisees

  • Dr Lucia Crowther 2025 (Wellcome Trust Doctoral Studentship 2021-2025) 'Exploring 'the domestic' in contemporary hospice architecture: A critical examination of the architecture and design of in-patient palliative care facilities in England' (now researcher Hull York Medical School)
  • Dr Mavuto Banda 2025 (University of Hull studentship 2020-2024) 'Evaluating the impact of child labour bans for Malawi's Southern Region tea and tobacco communities' (now Research Assistant, Youth Aspire Connect, Hull and WildLearning Specialist, WildTeam UK)
  • Dr Mbali Pewa 2020 (Commonwealth Scholarship 2015 - 2019) ‘Household Waste Management in a South African Township' (now Researcher, University of Stirling)
  • Dr Bronia Cross 2019 (University of Hull studentship 2014 - 2017) ‘The historical geographies of European Childhood in Colonial Africa: Children's lives in Nyasaland 1889-1964’ (now civil servant, FCDO).
  • Dr Kalliopi Kaparounaki 2019 (University of Hull studentship 2014 - 2017) ‘Caregiving children in Malawi: Children's work within families affected by illness and disability' (now Lecturer in Social Work, Dundee University).
  • Dr Mayeso Lazaro 2018 (University of Hull studentship 2015 -2018) ‘Grandfathers caring for orphaned grandchildren in rural Southern Malawi: Invisible in plain sight?' (now Lecturer in Human Ecology, University of Malawi).
  • Prof Nicola Ansell 1999 (Wingate scholarship) ‘Southern African secondary schools: places of empowerment for rural girls? Cases from Lesotho and Zimbabwe' (now Professor in Human Geography, Brunel University).