Dr Robert Lambert

MA (Hons) (St Andrews), Master Teaching Programme (Kansas State University), Certificate of Student Learning and Assessment (University of St.Andrews), Certificate of Small Group Teaching (The University of Edinburgh), PhD (St Andrews), Certificate of Supervising UG Dissertations (University of St.Andrews), Certificate of Managing Your Research Students (University of St.Andrews), Marine Mammal Medic (BDMLR), Fellow (Royal Historical Society FRHistS)

Assistant Professor in Tourism & the Environment

Department: Marketing, Tourism and Analytics
E-mail: Robert.Lambert@nottingham.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 115 8466699
Location: B34 (North Building, Jubilee Campus)

Dr Rob Lambert is a multi-disciplinary academic at the University of Nottingham, working in environmental history (Department of History, School of Humanities), and tourism, environment and sustainability (Business School). He holds a MA (Hons) in Modern History and a PhD in Environmental History from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. From 1998-2000 he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship at St. Andrews in the field of British environmental history studying the historical relationship between grey seals and people. Rob holds a Senior Honorary Research Fellowship at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth where he delivered the prestigious Alexander Lecture in 2006, taking as his theme 'contested nature in the modern British countryside'. He has published a number of books: edited collections 'Species History in Scotland' (1998); (with T.C. Smout), 'Rothiemurchus: Nature and People on a Highland Estate 1500-2000' (1999) and with Ian Rotherham, 'Invasive and Introduced Plants and Animals' (2011 & 2013); and a research monograph 'Contested Mountains' (2001/2022) about land use conflicts in the Highlands of Scotland; as well as numerous academic book chapters and articles on the changing and complex relationships between Nature and People in Great Britain.

He is a past President of the European Society for Environmental History, and co-edited the leading international journal 'Environment and History' from 2000-2020. He is a script and programme consultant to the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol (and other TV indies) working on a range of popular TV and radio wildlife documentaries on BBC1, BBC2, BBC4, BBC Scotland, and BBC Radio 4 since 2010. He served on the Steering Committee of the National Forest Company's 'LANDshapes: Heritage in the Making' project. On 3 occasions Rob has served as an IAATO international 'Observer' of sustainable tourism operations in Antarctica writing 35,000 word reports in each instance. In 2013, Rob was elected an Associate Member of the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy (CEHP) at the University of Stirling. Rob is a Trustee of the Isles of Scilly Museum Association.

Rob has published widely in the popular mass readership press in magazines like 'BBC Wildlife' and 'British Birds', and in books in the 'Seasons' anthology series (2016) by publisher Elliott & Thompson.

Rob is a very keen British and global birdwatcher and cetacean-watcher, with around 30 years of field experience, and is passionate about showing people wildlife. Rob is Vice-President of the Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust; Community Ambassador for Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust; and was Vice-President of the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust 2012-2017; as well as serving as a National Ambassador for the Wildlife Trusts movement in their centenary year of 2012. Rob was a Steering Group member of the think-tank New Networks for Nature (N3) 2011-2014.

In 2012, Rob co-founded A Focus on Nature (AFON), the youth conservation network in the UK, now with 3,000+ members. He is a Governor of Five Islands Academy on the Isles of Scilly.

Rob is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society FRHistS & a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society FRGS. He was awarded the Vice Chancellors Medal in 2020 for outstanding service to the University of Nottingham.

Rob came runner-up in 'Celebrity Wild Brain of Britain' in 2011 & 2012!

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Areas of Expertise
Sustainability, Ecotourism, Wildlife Tourism, Nature Tourism, Antarctica, Nature Conservation, Natural History Television, Biodiversity, Tourism & the Environment, Environmental History.

Recent Publications

The following lists my publications from 2014 to the present day.

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Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2024	Lambert, R (2024)., "Cairngorms: the contested mountains", at Beautiful and Relatively Wild: comparative histories of UK National Parks, 22-23 May, Dulverton, Exmoor National Park
Journal article (Short Research Note)	2024	Lambert, R (2024)., "Obituary: Dr Jonathan Dean" British Birds, Vol. 117 (10), 580-581
Authored book	2022	Lambert, RA (2022)., Contested Mountains: Nature, Development & Environment in the Cairngorms Region of Scotland, 1880-1980, White Horse Press
Chapter in book	2020	Lambert, R (2020)., "Song Thrush", in Kit Jewitt ed Red Sixty Seven: words and art inspired by Britain's most vulnerable birds, (1 (48)), 104-105, BTO
Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2017	Lambert, R (2017)., "Brexit & Environment", at Chair, British Birdwatching Fair, Rutland Water
Journal article	2017	Robert A. Lambert (2017)., "Torrey Canyon: the wreck that changed our world. Talking Point Essay." BBC Wildlife, Vol. 35 (4), 30-34
Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2016	Lambert, R (2016)., "Should Grouse Shooting be Banned?", at Chair, British Birdwatching Fair, Rutland Water
Chapter in book	2016	Lambert, R.A. (2016)., "The Winter Fens", in Melissa Harrison ed Winter: an anthology for the changing seasons, (Seasons Book 4), 157-160, Elliott and Thompson
Chapter in book	2016	Lambert, R.A. (2016)., "Autumn Migration", in Melissa Harrison ed Autumn: an anthology for the changing seasons, (Seasons Book 3), 130-133, Elliott and Thompson
Chapter in book	2016	Lambert, R.A. (2016)., "Wild Britannia: environmental history, wildlife television and new publics in Britain", in Peter Coates, David Moon & Paul Warde ed Local Places, Global Processes: histories of environmental change in Britain and beyond, 118-124, Windgather Press/Oxbow Books
Chapter in book	2016	Lambert, R.A; Sands, T. (2016)., "Our vanishing natural heritage and the Wildlife Trusts: a century of influence and local action for nature and people", in Ian Convery & Peter Davis ed Changing Perceptions of Nature, (Heritage Matters 18), 203-212, The Boydell Press
Chapter in book	2016	Lambert, R.A. (2016)., "Destination Nature: wildlife and the rise of domestic ecotourism in Britain, 1880-2015", in Ian Convery & Peter Davis ed Changing Perceptions of Nature, (Heritage Matters 18), 235-243, The Boydell Press
Journal article	2016	Lambert, R. (2016)., "Tales from the Bush" BBC Wildlife, Vol. 34 (1), pp. 114
Chapter in book	2015	Lambert, R.A. (2015)., "Environmental History and Conservation Conflicts", in Stephen Redpath, R.J. Gutierrez, K. Wood, J. Young ed Conflicts in Conservation: navigating towards solutions, (Ecological Reviews), pp. 49-63, Cambridge University Press
Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2015	Lambert, R. (2015)., "Wildlife in Trust", at British Birdwatching Fair, Rutland Water
Chapter in book	2014	Lambert, R.A (2014)., "The Grey Seal in Britain: a twentieth century history of a nature conservation success", in Sarah Johnson ed Animals: Themes in Environmental History 4, pp. 131-155, White Horse Press
Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2014	Lambert, R. (2014)., "Tourism in Antarctica", at Melton Aurora Rotary Club
Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2014	Lambert, R. (2014)., "Managing Big Beasts", at Cardiff University Business School
Conference Contribution/ Proceedings	2014	Lambert, R. (2014)., "Britain's Big Wildlife Revival", at Somerset Ornitholoical Society

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I supervise NUBS UG & PG dissertations in Environment and Sustainability topics. I am the module convenor of the following UG and PG modules in NUBS, alongside modules on environmental history in the Department of History, School of Humanities:

BUSI2014 Managing Tourism and the Environment: conflict or consensus?

BUSI4575 Sustainable Tourism Management

Robert is module convenor of the following module(s):

Undergraduate

Managing Tourism and the Environment (BUSI2014)

Details of all modules can be found on MyNottingham

Recent research endeavours have focused on conservation conflicts and so-called conflict species (for example, birds of prey, or predatory mammals); the alien and invasive species debate; the history of mass membership nature conservation organisations in the UK such as the RSPB, National Trust, The Wildlife Trusts, WWT; societal responses to conservation challenges and biodiversity loss; the rise of a domestic ecotourism agenda in Britain both within the NGO world and private sector; wildlife tourism and biodiversity conservation; marine ecotourism; human impacts and natural changes within species history; the multiple use of land; access and outdoor recreation; ideas of extinction and memory; concepts of rewilding; the history of wildlife and natural history television and radio.

Rob has also compiled 3 International 'Observer' research reports for the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) on the current operations and sustainable practices of expedition ships and tour operators in Antarctica.

From 2000-2020, Rob served on the Editorial Board of the international journal 'Environment and History'.

Past research has focused on British environmental history post-1800, with a particular emphasis on species history, landscape history, the history of nature conservation and changing human attitudes to Nature. From 1998-2000, Rob held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship looking at the environmental history of the grey seal in twentieth century Britain. Other work has focused on the environmental history of the Scottish Highlands, the species history of birds and mammals, extinction and memory, conservation conflicts, the history of tourism and outdoor recreation in Britain, the rise of ecotourism and wildlife tourism, etc.

University Administrative Roles
Management Board of the University-wide IRC Life in Changing Environments, 2019-onwards. Co-organiser and host of the annual Nottingham Environment Conference (NEC) held every June.

School Administrative Roles
University Environmental Ambassador
Summer School Co-Ordinator

School and University Committee Memberships

Committee	From	Role
Social and Environmental Responsibility Group	2018

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