Biography

Robert Allison is Professor of Geography and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex.

Bob's research interests examine interactions between earth processes, landforms and material properties. Past projects have been funded by a range of organisations including the Natural Environment Research Council, The Royal Society, and The Nuffield Foundation. Professor Allison has been the recipient of honours and awards: Jan De Ploey Prize (Katholieke Universitat Leuven 1993); Charles Lyell Award (British Association for the Advancement of Science 1995); Cuthbert Peek Award (Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers 1997), all principally for research in hillslope processes and arid land geomorphology. Bob contributes to the work of a range of organisations; he both sits on and chairs a range of grant committees at the NERC, shortly becomes Chair of the British Society for Geomorphology and contributes in a variety of ways to the activities of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Insitute of British Geographers).

 As Pro-Vice-Chancellor Bob is one of the University Principal Officers. His responsibilities encompass research, enterprise, innovation and a range of regional activities. Bob is Director and Chairman of the Sussex Innovation Centre Ltd. and Sussex IP Ltd., two companies that promote knowledge transfer between the University community and external organisations.

For appointments please contact Jenny Long in the Vice-Chancellor's Office (Ex.8212).

Rosser, N J, Petley, D N, Lim, M, Dunning, S A and Allison, R J (2005) Terrestrial laser scanning for monitoring the process of hard rock coastal cliff erosion. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 38 (4). pp. 363-375. ISSN 1470-9236

Lim, Michael, Petley, David N, Rosser, Nicholas J, Allison, Robert J, Long, Antony J and Pybus, David (2005) Combined digital photogrammetry and time-of-flight laser scanning for monitoring cliff evolution. Photogrammetric Record, 20 (110). pp. 109-129. ISSN 0031-868X

Kemeling, Ilona, Petley, David N, Rosser, Nick J, Allison, Robert J, Long, Antony J, Scott, Ian M and Stein, Alfred (2004) Data driven modelling of a complex mining subsidence process. In: SPIE proceedings series:Remote sensing for environmental monitoring, GIS applications, and geology. Conference No4.

Allison, R J, Higuchi, T, Sidell, EJ and Long, AJ (2004) The response of archaeological sediments and artefacts to imposed stress regimes as a consequence of past, present and future anthropogenic activity. In: Preserving Archaeological remains in-situ. Museum of London Archaeology Service, pp. 42-49. ISBN 1901992365

Allison, Robert (2001) Geomorphological processes: rates, relationships and return intervals. In: Engineering Geology and the Environment. Balkema, pp. 3471-3490. ISBN 90-5410-881-9