Prof Robert Dodgshon
BA and PhD degrees from the University of Liverpool.
Emeritus Professor
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
Contact Details
- Email: rad@aber.ac.uk
- Office:L2 Llandinam Building
- Research Portal Profile (https://research.aber.ac.uk/en/persons/5cda3ac8-54a4-4da7-8990-8909ffa58365)
Professor Robert Dodgshon holds BA and PhD degrees from the University of Liverpool. First joining the department in 1970 as a lecturer, he was promoted to a professorship in 1988, held the Gregynog Chair of Human Geography, 2000-07, and served as Director of the Institute 1998-03, before taking full retirement at the end of 2007.
In addition to holding the Murchison Award from the RGS and the Scottish Geographical Medal from the RSGS, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academyin 2002 and a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2010.
Between 1997-2004, he served as a member of the Countryside Council for Wales and, for a time, was their appointed member on the UK Government's Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). Between 2000-08, he has been a council member of the National Trust for England and Wales. Between 1998-2008, he was President of the Society for Landscape Studies.
Group Affiliation
Research Interests
Work by Professor Dodgshon is focussed on three research themes.
First, he is working on the long-term history of rural communities and their economy in theScottish Highlands and Islands.
Second, he is working on the history of Alpine communities since 1500, including changes in their strategies of resource use, property rights and the use of common resources, inheritance practices, how they coped with risk, and their environmental/ecological impact.
Third, he working on the general theme of cultural constructions of spatial order
Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, 2024. 295 p. (Historical Geography and Geoscience).
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Springer Nature, 2019. 266 p. (Historical Geography and Geosciences).
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. 299 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
At the Anvil : Essays in Honour of William J. Smyth. ed. / Patrick J. Duffy; William Nolan. Dublin: Geography Publications, 2012. p. 421-52.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History. ed. / Tom Devine; Jenny Wormald. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. p. 130-58.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter