Rate My Professor Robin Kearns

Kearns has produced over 260 publications, achieving an h-index of 58 and more than 11,000 citations on Google Scholar. Notable works include the seminal paper 'From medical to health geography: novelty, place and theory after a decade of change' (Progress in Human Geography, 2002), which has garnered over 800 citations. He co-edited 'Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded' (Routledge, 2020) and has contributed to the Geographies of Health series and 'A Companion to Health and Medical Geography' (2009). His influence is evident in editorial roles, including the board of Wellbeing, Space and Society, and supervision of over 30 Master's students and more than a dozen PhD candidates. Major honors include election as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi (2020), the Ako Aotearoa National Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching (2011) with induction into the Academy of Tertiary Teaching Excellence, two University of Auckland teaching awards, and the Melinda S. Meade Distinguished Scholarship Award in Health and Medical Geography from the American Association of Geographers (2018). Kearns also serves on the New Zealand Geographic Board.