Caitlin Robinson is an Senior Research Fellow and Proleptic Lecturer in Urban Analytics the School of Geographical Science at University of Bristol.

As a quantitative human geographer, Caitlin's research investigates the causes and consequences of different types of spatial inequality, with a particular interest in energy, infrastructure, climate. She takes a critical, theory-led approach to spatial analyses, using quantitative, spatial datasets and methods to understand inequality across multiple scales.

Caitlin currently leads a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship themed around ambience, 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. Mapping Ambient Vulnerabilities (MAV) explores how different dimensions of ambient vulnerability are likely to intersect – whether in a person’s home, local neighbourhood, or on a journey through the city.

Caitlin has previously held positions as a Lecturer in Urban Analytics in the Department of Geography and Planning at University of Liverpool, and a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University. Before joining Newcastle, Caitlin was a teaching-focused Lecturer in Geographical Information Systems at The University of Manchester where she also completed her PhD in Human Geography in 2019.