Rate My Professor 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.