Dr Kate Robson Brown
MA, PhD (Cantab)
Senior Lecturer in Biological AnthropologyDepartment of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Research Interests
• Human evolution, and functional anatomy at the level of microstructure
• Osteoarchaeology, and the African diaspora
• Postcranial morphological variation within modern human populations
• Biomechanics of the spine in humans and other primates
• MicroCT technology and its application to archaeology and anthropology
• The impact of tissue regulation on research and the public display of archaeological human remains in the museums, galleries and university sectors
Public Service
In 2005 I was appointed as a founder member of the Human Tissue Authority, which regulates the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for a number of purposes such as research, public display, transplantation and education. Within the Authority I have taken up a number of roles, including co-Chair of the working group on the Public Display of Human Remains, co-Chair of the working group on the Import/Export of Human Remains, and Member of HTA Regulation Working Group and Communications Working Group.
Imaging Laboratory
The Imaging Laboratory for Archaeology and Anthropology provides microCT and image analysis facilities for collaborative projects related to biological anthropology, bone health, and archaeology. For further information please contact me at kate.robson-brown@bristol.ac.uk.
Bristol Osteoarchaeological Research Group (BORG)
BORG provides osteoarchaeological services to a range of sectors including archaeological contractors and forensic services. For further information please contact me at kate.robson-brown@bristol.ac.uk.
Current Funded Research Projects
2009 Context One Archaeological Unit “The skeletal remains from Taunton Priory”. Robson Brown, K.
2008 Natural History Museum, Departmental Initiative Fund “MicroCT of the La Ferrassie Neanderthal infants held at the Musée de l’Homme, Paris”. Robson Brown, K and Abel, R.
2008 Named collaborator on Action Medical Research “Creep deformation of human vertebrae” Adams, MA and Dolan, P.
2008 British Academy Research Development Award (BARDA) “The osteoarchaeology of African-British populations 1750-1850: Bristol, London and a comparison with New York” Robson Brown, K.
2007 EPSRC “Engineering solutions to back pain: an interdisciplinary approach” EP/F010575/1. Wilcox, R (PI), Aggeli, A, Robson Brown, K, Aaron, J (Co-Is).
Recent Presentations
2009 Electron absorbed fractions in skeletal soft tissues based on red bone marrow segmentation at runtime in microCT images of human trabecular bone. Kramer, R, Khoury, HJ, Viera, JW, Robson Brown, K, Fuelle, D. World Congress 2009 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Munich, September 7-12.
2008 The impact of the HT Act on osteoarchaeology in the UK. K Robson Brown. Keynote speaker at the Wellcome Collection event “London’s Dead” 18 September 2008.
2008 Does cement distribution influence the mechanical outcome of vertebroplasty? Gibson, J, Luo, J. Robson Brown, K. Adams, MA, Annesley-Williams, DJ, Dolan, P. At the SPBR Meeting 6-7 November 2008.
2008 Pattern recognition of morphological measurements on modern and ancient humans. K Robson Brown, SS Fong, GR Lloyd, BML Clarkson, RG Brereton. At the CMA4CH Mediterraneum Meeting on Multivariate Analysis and Chemometrics applied to Cultural Heritage and Environment, Ventotene, Italy, 1-4 June 1008,
Recent Publications
Edited Books:
Robson Brown, K.A & Roberts, A. (2007). Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. Oxford: BAR. ISBNISBN 9781407300351
Robson Brown, K. A (2003). Archaeological Sciences 1999. British Archaeological Reports International Series 111. Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 1 84171 489 5.
Barham, L. & Robson Brown, K. (2001). Human Roots: African and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. Bristol: Western Academic & Specialist Press Ltd. ISBN 0-9535418-4-3.
Websites (refereed)
Robson Brown, KA, Holmes, K, and Collins, M.
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/resources.html?hominids_ahrb_2003
Academic Journal Papers (refereed):
31 papers in peer reviewed journals since 1995. The most recent include:
Robson Brown, K, Pollintine, P. and Adams, MA (2008) The biomechanical implications of degenerative joint disease in the apophyseal joints of human thoracic and lumbar vertebrae. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 136 318-326.
Roberts,A, Peters,T and Robson Brown,K (2007) New light on old shoulders:palaeopathological patterns of arthropathy and enthesopathy in the shoulder complex.Journal of Anatomy 211: 485-492.
Horton, M and Robson Brown, K (2007) An aristocratic mausoleum at Grosbot Abbey (Poitou-Charente, France). In M. Costen, ed. 'People and Places', pp137-164. Oxford:Oxbow ISBN 978-1-84217-251-3.
Davies, C and Robson Brown, K (2007). Anatomy and the Human Tissue Act. Hospital Doctor September 21.
Holmes, KM, Robson Brown, KA, Oates, WP and Collins, MJ. (2006). Assessing the distribution of Asian Palaeolithic sites: a predictive model of collagen degradation.Journal of Archaeological Science, Volume 33, Issue 7, July 2006, Pages 971-986
Loe, L. and Robson Brown, K. (2005). Summary report on the human skeletons from the Medieval Cemetery at Llandough. Medieval Archaeology volume XLIX, 42-52.
Roberts, A. Robson Brown, K. Musgrave, J.H. & Leslie, I. (2005) A case of bilateral scapholunate advanced collapse in a Romano-British skeleton from Ancaster. International Journal of Ostearchaeology 15, 1-13.