Erin Robbins is a Lecturer from the South of the United States. She completed her undergraduate education at Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama (USA) and her postgraduate training at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). In-between she worked in a number of different jobs, from technical writer to conservationist. Her primary interest is in the role of culture in cognition and development which led her to pursue field work, primarily in Samoa and Vanuatu. She is queer, a trade union member, and serves as the Director of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for her department.