Linda Robson

Dr. Linda Robson serves as an Adjunct Teaching Fellow in Geography within the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia. She is a qualified town and regional planner with a distinguished international career across academia, public administration, private consultancy, and professional bodies. Robson earned her PhD in Planning from the University of Pretoria in 2011, and both her Master's and Bachelor's degrees in town planning from the University of the Witwatersrand, where she began her academic career as a lecturer. In the UK, she held positions as Strategy and Policy Officer and Web Editor at the Royal Town Planning Institute in London. She founded her own planning consultancy in Johannesburg, served as Principal Planner there, and as Senior Planner in the Johannesburg City Planning Department. Additionally, she was an external senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria's Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology and has served as Head of the Department of Archaeology, Forensics, Geography, and Anthropology, as well as Course Coordinator for Urban and Regional Planning.

Her research specializations encompass regional development, lagging regions, the history of human settlements, colonial planning history, globalisation, migrant labour, and developing areas, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 11. Notable publications include the "RailSmart Planning Wanneroo Technical Report" (2019, co-authored with Biermann, Cardell-Oliver, Olaru, Martinus, Smith, Chi, Sun, Reed, Jie, Standing, Parsons), "The power of integrated spatial modelling: RailSmart Planning Wanneroo" (2019, with Biermann and Reed), "Transport planning with a web planning support system" (2019, with Reed), "Investigating regional centres" (2016), and "Strategic Military Colonisation: The Cape Eastern Frontier 1806–1872" (2012, with Oranje). Robson has been honored with the Student Choice Awards (2020), RTPI Awards for Research Excellence (2019), and UWA Student Guild's Student Choice Awards (2017). She currently lectures and tutors at UWA, focusing on geography and planning education.

Professional Email: linda.robson@uwa.edu.au