Associate Professor Robert Baker
Associate Professor, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Qualifications
BSc(Hons) (Syd), MSc, PhD (NSW), DipEd (Syd)
Contact
| Email: | rbaker1@une.edu.au |
| Room: | Earth Sciences (C2) 206 |
| Phone: | 02 6773 2884 (or +61 2 6773 2884 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3030 |
| Homepage: | http://www-personal.une.edu.au/~rbaker1/ |
After completing a PhD in 1991, Robert joined the staff of the Department of Geography and Planning in July 1993 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 1996, and Associate Professor in 2006..
Affiliations
Immediate past Chair of the International Geographical Union Commission on ‘Modelling Geographic Systems’ .
Areas of Teaching
GEPL111: Earth in Crisis
GEPL305/505: Coastal Environments and Climate Change
GEPL307: Climate Change and Future Planning
GEPL352/552: Changing Communities: Development Planning
GEPL361: Retail Geography, Planning and Practice
Research interests
My main research interests are in Holocene marine environments, Internet traffic, the geography of retailing and the development of applied mathematical geography. He is also interested in coastal geomorphology.
Consultancy
I have undertaken a range of consultancies on the impact of retail development and trading hours on local communities.