Dr Sarah Robin
Learning Developer (LUMS Postgraduate)Research Overview
As a Learning Developer, I am particularly interested in innovative forms of teaching and inclusivity.
As an Historian, my research area focuses on material culture and the history of emotions in seventeenth-century England.
Profile
I have a signficant amount of experience researching and teaching History, and have now moved into Learning Development. I currently teach in the management school, provide student academic writing support and manage The Academic Writing Zone in the Management School at Lancaster.
I continue to teach and research History. I was also a Teaching Fellow in History at the University of Manchester.
Research Grants
ALDinHE project research grants (2021)
Peel Trust Award, July, 2013
Awarded Travel Bursary from Perth University, Australia, June 2013
William Ritchie Travel Award
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Travel Award
Conference Grant awarded by Lancaster Univeristy History Department to Perth, Australia, June 2013
Award (by Lancaster University History Department) to cohost a new postgraduate conference in may 2013
Conference Grant awarded by Faculty of Arts and Social Science, April 2013
Research Grant for purchase of Modes Software system by Lancaster University, History Department
Reasearch Grant awarded by Lancaster University History Department to visit Winterthur Museum, Delaware and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September, 2011
Current Research
Robin, S.A. (2020). Male Choice and Desire: Material Offerings in Seventeenth-Century England. Cultural and social history, 17(3), pp.279–293.
Robin, S.A. (2020). Objects: Dynamics of display. In Approaching Historical Sources in their Contexts: Space, Time and Performance. pp. 166–181.
Robin, S.A. (2019). Anne C. Vila, Suffering Scholars: Pathologies of the Intellectual in Enlightenment France. Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine, 32(3), pp.639–640..
Sarah Ann Robin, ‘Jewels of the Flesh: The Corporeal Relationship between Jewellery and the Body in the Early-Modern Period’ in Jewellery History Today, 23, (2015).
Sarah Ann Robin, ‘The Public and Private Realms in the Seventeenth Century: A Parameter of Wood and Fabric’ in The Luminary: Sleepless Beds, 3, (2013), pp. 62-73.
Career Details
Lear
Research Interests
- Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education