A Professor of Geography and current Head of the School of Environment at the University of Auckland. His doctoral study took him to Canada supported by a Commonwealth Scholarship where he examined the inner city experience of impoverished psychiatric patients. In the three decades since, he has maintained an interest in the links between health and place and is an editor of the Elsevier journal of the same name. Robin has collaborated with a wide range of geographers and others with funding from agencies such as the Health Research Council of NZ and the NZ National Science Challenges. He is a qualitative methodologist with particular interests in experiential and observational approaches. His current research centres on islands communities, the cultural politics of naming places, place attachment and home environments. Robin’s most recent book is the co-edited Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing: Hydrophilia Unbounded (Routledge, 2019). Robin spent his childhood in England and rural Northland, has lived in Auckland most of his life and, since 2019, resides on Waiheke Island. He is the NZGS nominee on the board Nga Pou o Taunaha o Aotearoa which educates and officiates on place names in New Zealand. When not working, he is a lover of wild places, birds and plant life, live music, poetry and a varied mix of good company and solitude.