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Dr Ian Robson

Associate Professor

Department: Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing

Ian Robson

Dr Ian Robson is a methodological innovator who enables new knowledge and practice change in the fields of collaborative enquiry, social design, and inclusion of marginalised groups. Ian specialises in creating shared spaces of enquiry in which social research evidence, philosophy, social theory, and the visual arts can be applied to complex and dynamic situations, and lived experience. In this field, Ian has supported stakeholders as diverse as infants, service users, managers, policy and commissioning leads, and students to meaningfully engage in transformative enquiry and change social conditions. In higher education context, Ian has designed, led and quality assured a wide range of programmes and modules at all levels of study. With public sector partners, Ian’s sensitive and creative leadership of partnerships and facilitation of action-research has been recognised for improving outcomes for infants, children, young people, and residents. The same focus on creative innovation and enquiry runs through his publications for international audiences. Ian draws on his experience of arts-based community development, team and senior management in local authorities, teaching and learning in Higher Education and personal experience as a foster carer and adoptive parent of disabled children.  

Ian Robson

Campus Address

Manor House M003
Coach Lane Campus (West)
Coach Lane, Benton, Newcastle Upon Tyne

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Designing basic income pilots for community development: what are the key community concerns? Evidence from citizen engagement in Northern England, Howard, N., Gregory, G., Johnson, E., Goodman, C., Coates, J., Robson, I., Pickett, K., Johnson, M. 2 Jan 2025, In: Local Development and Society
  • Make Politics Work for Us: A Common Sense pathway to democracy that delivers, Johnson, E., Neal, C., Stark, G., Duffy, S., Robson, I., Reed, H., Meehan, P., Warnock, C., Atkinson, J., Nettle, D., Johnson, M. 16 Jan 2025
  • Act Now: A vision for a better future and a new social contract, Johnson, M., Dorling, D., Driscoll, J., Hardill, I., Hobbs, C., Johnson, E., Lawson, N., Nadel, J., Nettle, D., Pickett, K., Polanski, Z., Pollock, A., Reed, H., Robson, I., Stark, G., Taylor-Robinson, D., Wilkinson, R. 1 Jul 2024
  • Basic Income: The Policy That Changes Everything, Johnson, M., Pickett, K., Nettle, D., Reed, H., Johnson, E., Robson, I. 5 Nov 2024
  • Complicit in the Catastrophe: practical progress with Deleuze and Guattari, Robson, I. 11 Dec 2024, In: Qualitative Inquiry
  • Delivering Regional Renewal: Public support for bold change in North East transport policy, Thew, A., Littlefair, D., Stark, G., Robson, I., Atkinson, J., Reed, H., Johnson, E., Nettle, D., Johnson, M. 14 Nov 2024
  • Multi-Agency Practice with Young Children, Robson, I., Graham, P. 22 Jan 2024, Early Childhood Studies, London, United Kingdom, SAGE
  • Spend to Save Britain: A Common Sense Approach to the 2024 Budget, Johnson, E., Stark, G., Duffy, S., Moseley, L., Robson, I., Atkinson, J., Wilkinson, R., Pickett, K., Nettle, D., Johnson, M., Reed, H. 31 Oct 2024
  • Supporting the Biomedical Science UG Project Research Journey Through Staff-Student Partnerships, Veuger, S., Cookson, L., Creighton, H., Gallaher, S., Racey, S., Ridley, M., Robson, I. 29 May 2024, In: British Journal of Biomedical Science
  • Transforming public health: Common Sense Principles for Radical Prevention Funds, Johnson, E., Stark, G., Duffy, S., Reed, H., Robson, I., Atkinson, J., Wilkinson, R., Nettle, D., Johnson, M. 10 Dec 2024

  • Nursing Related Studies PhD January 07 2016
  • Education PGCert July 01 2011
  • Urban Studies MSc May 20 2005
  • BSc (Hons) September 01 1999
  • Senior Fellow (SFHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2016


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