Rate My Professor Robert Haworth

Robert Haworth serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and as an Adjunct Academic in Geography and Planning at the University of New England (UNE) in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts with Honours from UNE and his PhD from the University of Tasmania. Throughout his career at UNE, Haworth has lectured in environmental history and physical geography, holding positions including casual Senior Lecturer in Physical Geography from 1992 to 2006. He is a member of the Heritage Futures Research Centre within the Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Education, where he contributes to research on heritage and environmental themes.

Haworth's academic interests center on environmental history, geomorphology, and collaborative archaeology, particularly projects with Aboriginal communities in northern New South Wales aimed at investigating ancient wetlands and reconstructing past environments. His work examines human-environment interactions, paleoclimate records, and landscape changes over time. Key publications include his role as co-editor of Community Archaeology: Working Ancient Aboriginal Wetlands in Eastern Australia (Archaeopress, 2021), which compiles results from wetland heritage investigations across eastern Australia, encompassing the Tasmanian Midlands and New England Tablelands. Other significant contributions are 'The Several "Discoveries" of Sydney's Georges River: Precursors to the Tom Thumb Expedition' in the Journal of Australian Colonial History (2012), 'Changes in mangrove/saltmarsh distribution in the Georges River estuary, southern Sydney, 1930-1970,' 'Gold and its landscapes: Uralla in the "Roaring Days"' (book chapter, University of New England), 'Human environmental disturbance prior to official European settlement in the Sydney region,' 'An Oscillating Holocene Sea-level?: Revisiting Rottnest Island,' and co-authorship on 'A Holocene record of climate and hydrological changes from the sediments of Lake George, SE Australia' (2014). He has also edited volumes such as introductions for Historic Environment and contributed to gold mining history texts like Golden Words and a Golden Landscape: Essays on the History of the New England Goldfields. Haworth's research has informed understandings of coastal evolution, periglacial features on the New England Tablelands, and pre-colonial environmental modifications.