- Witnessing Loss in the Everyday: Community Buildings in Austerity Britain Robinson, Katherine and Sheldon, Ruth. 2019. Witnessing Loss in the Everyday: Community Buildings in Austerity Britain. The Sociological Review, 67(1), pp. 111-125. ISSN 0038-0261
- “Charismatic Species and Beyond: How Cultural Schemas and Organisational Routines shape Conservation” Krause, Monika and Robinson, Katherine. 2017. “Charismatic Species and Beyond: How Cultural Schemas and Organisational Routines shape Conservation”. Conservation and Society, 15(3), pp. 313-321. ISSN 0972-4923
Dr Katherine Robinson
Katherine's research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations.
Staff details
My research explores issues in urban public space and everyday life in organisations. These interests come together in my ethnographic research in public libraries in south London and Berlin, which explores questions of urban multiculture, public participation and organisational capacity.
I joined Goldsmiths in 2014 as a researcher on the ‘Triaging Values’ project, with Monika Krause. The project examined how international NGOs make decisions about prioritisation and the allocation of resources.
I started a writing group in the department which meets regularly to write together, using a version of the 'shut up and write' approach.
Teaching
I lecture on the department's undergraduate Sociology programme and contribute to teaching on the MA in Human Rights, Culture, and Social Justice. I convene the third year core course, ‘Theorising Contemporary Society’ and teach a second year optional module, 'Migration in Context'. I supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations.
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- How to do social research with... knitting Robinson, Katherine. 2024. How to do social research with... knitting. In: Rebecca Coleman; Kat Jungnickel and Nirmal Puwar, eds. How to do social research with…. London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 163-171. ISBN 9781913380427
Article
- Non-liberal Internationalism: The Field of International Mission Agencies Krause, Monika and Robinson, Katherine. 2023. Non-liberal Internationalism: The Field of International Mission Agencies. Global Society, 37(1), pp. 51-67. ISSN 1360-0826
- Materialising Reform: How Conservation Encounters Collection Practises in Zoos Krause, Monika and Robinson, Katherine. 2022. Materialising Reform: How Conservation Encounters Collection Practises in Zoos. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(2), pp. 137-150. ISSN 1753-0350
- Everyday multiculturalism in the public library: taking knitting together seriously Robinson, Katherine. 2020. Everyday multiculturalism in the public library: taking knitting together seriously. Sociology, 54(3), pp. 556-572. ISSN 0038-0385
Research Interests
Urban sociology, public space; organisations; qualitative research methods, particularly ethnography.