Seaton Hall Baxter,
OBE
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(born 1939) is an
emeritus professor at the
Robert Gordon University
Robert Gordon University, commonly called RGU, is a public university in the city of Aberdeen, Scotland. It became a university in 1992, and originated from an educational institution founded in the 18th century by Robert Gordon (philanthropist), ...
and Honorary Professor at the
University of Dundee where he acts as the head of the
Centre for the Study of Natural Design and postgraduate supervisor. He has also taught at
Schumacher College.
Baxter was born in
Aberdeen,
Scotland. He worked for over twenty years in agricultural buildings research at the
North of Scotland College of Agriculture's Scottish Farm Buildings Investigation Unit before joining the Robert Gordon University in 1983 as Head of the School of Construction Management, Property and Surveying. At the Robert Gordon University he acted as Assistant Principal, Dean and Reader where he established the Centre for Environmental Studies in 1994 and the first ever MSc in Ecological Design.
Baxter has worked with several Scottish environmental NGO's including the Scottish Environment Link, Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland, Deeside Forest Advisory Group and was formerly a board member of
Scottish Natural Heritage and chairman of Scottish Outdoor Education Centres.
He has academic qualifications in building technology and philosophy.
He was appointed an OBE in 1998 for his services to Scottish Natural Heritage and to the Environment.
Significant publications
*''Intensive Pig Production'' Publisher: Granada (1984)
References
External links
VRC Research Staff Profile - University of Dundee Retrieved 3 August 2011.
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People from Aberdeen
Living people
Scottish designers
Academics of Robert Gordon University
1939 births
Academics of the University of Dundee
Officers of the Order of the British Empire