Staff Profile

Introduction

Employed as a research assistant/associate since January 2015 within the Geospatial Engineering group, School of Engineering, Newcastle University. Working across a range of projects related to complex neworks, infrastructure network resillience, spatial data manaagement and data visualisation. Awarded a PhD in 2017 from Newcastle University entitled 'Robustness of Hierarchical Spatial Critical Infrastructure Networks', focused on the resilience of critical spatial infrastructures to geographic hazards, developing the required analytical methods and associated datadata management architectures. Previously graduated with a degree in GIS (Geographic Information Science) from Newcastle University (2011).

Supervision (PhD)

Qianqian Li (Sheffield Unviersity) - Resilience of global networks to extreme climate change hazards

Links

Git Hub

Google scholar

Areas of expertise

• Geospatial data management
• Infrastructure network analysis
• Data visualisation

Qualifications

• PhD. Robustness of Hierarchical Spatial Critical Infrastructure Networks, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (2017)
• BSc Hons Geographic Information Science - 1st class with Hons. - University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (2011)

Awards

GISRUK 2015 best paper - Robson C, Barr SL, James P, Ford A. “Spatially modelling dependent infrastructure networks”. In: GISRUK. 2015, Leeds, UK.

Current

Flood-PREPARED

Developing a real-time flood prediction and resilience tool, this project uses real-time data feeds from the Newcastle Urban observatory to forecast rain fall and simulate the impact on the urban environment through any potential flooding. Working with local stakeholders, the tool will be deployed in Newcastle to demonstrate the capability and utility of the developed framework.

ITRC-MISTRAL

This research focuses on the development of a national infrastructure database to support system-of-systems analysis for critical infrastructure. Using new technologies such as federated databases and graph databases, this will provided the platform for household level analysis of the demand on current and future infrastructure networks.

ITRC

Development of visualisation tools and under pinning database for a national scale infrastructure systems-of-systems framework and analysis tool for the ITRC project. Work continues to maintain this supporting its continued use both within and outside of academia, including by the National Infrastructure Commission for informing government level decisions on infrastructure investment.

Other

Network visualisation methods for displaying the effects of hazards on spatial networks in real-time.

Previous

PhD

Title: The robustness of hierarchical critical spatial infrastructure networks. (Awarded 2017)

• Schoenmakers R, Ives M, Robson C, Nagella S, Fowler R, Chorlton S, Yang E, Hall JW. Improving performance and scalability of NISMOD: National Infrastructure Systems Model. In: Third Conference of Research Software Engineers. 2018, Birmingham.
• Robson C, Barr SL, James P, Ford A. A framework for modelling the impact of spatial hazards on critical infrastructure networks. In: GISRUK. 2017, Manchester, UK.
• Ives MC, Silberman A, Letti B, Large J, Blainey S, Choundry M, Baruah P, Robson C, Usher W, Hall JW. Modelling future scenarios of infrastructure demand for the UK’s National Infrastructure Assessment. In: International Symposia for Next Generation Infrastructure. 2017, London, UK.
• Barr SL, Robson C, Pregnolato M, Ji Q. NISMOD-DB++: A next generation spatiotemporal database framework for infrastructure systems analytics and modelling. In: ISNGI. 2017. In Preparation.
• Pregnolato M, Ford A, Robson C, Glenis V, Barr S, Dawson RJ. Assessing urban strategies for reducing the impacts of extreme weather on infrastructure networks. Royal Society Open Science 2016, 3(5), 160023.
• Barr S, Alderson D, Ives MC, Robson C. Database, simulaation modelling and visualisation for national infrastructure. In: Hall, Jim W.; Tran, Martino; Hickford, Adrian J.; Nicholls, Robert J, ed. The Future of National Infrastructure: A System-of-Systems Approach. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
• Alderson D, Barr SL, Holderness T, Robson C, Ford A, Kennedy-Walker R. A geospatial relational database schema for interdependent network analysis and modelling. In: 23rd GIS Research UK (GISRUK). 2015, Leeds, UK.
• Harris N, Robson C, Barr SL, James P. Real time coupled network failure modelling and visualisation. In: GISRUK. 2015, Leeds, UK.
• Robson C, Barr S, James P, Ford A. Spatially modelling dependent infrastructure networks. In: GISRUK. 2015, Leeds.
• Robson C, Barr S, James P, Ford A. Resilience of hierarchical critical infrastructure networks. In: International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure. 2014, Vienna, Austria.
• Barr SL, Alderson D, Robson C, Otto A, Hall J, Thacker S, Pant R. A National Scale Infrastructure Database and Modelling Environment for the UK. In: International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure. 2013, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
• Barr SL, Holderness T, Alderson D, Robson C, Ford A. An open source relational database schema and system for the analysis of large scale spatially interdependent infrastructure networks. In: 4th Open Source GIS Conference - OSGIS 2012. 2012, Nottingham: Nottingham Geospatial Institute, University of Nottingham.
• Alderson D, Robson C, Holderness T, Barr SL, Ford A. An open source spatial database schema and interface for the storage, representation and analysis of interdependent infrastructure networks. In: ITRC Early Career Researchers Conference: Infrastructure Delivery in an Uncertain Future. 2012, Clare College, Cambridge, UK: Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium UK (ITRC).