Robin Room

Robin Gerald Walden Room (born 28 December 1939) is an Australian sociologist and researcher who studies the health effects of alcohol and other drugs. From 2015 - 2017 he was the director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University, formerly at Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, as well as the Professor of Alcohol Policy Research at the School of Population Health of the University of Melbourne, since March 2006. Room is currently Distinguished Professor at the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research at La Trobe University. He is also a professor at the Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs at Stockholm University.

Education Room received his B.A. from Princeton University in English in 1960, and his two M.A.'s (the first in English, the second in sociology) from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and 1967, respectively. He later received his PhD in sociology from Berkeley in 1978.

Career Room began working at the National Alcohol Research Centre in Berkeley, California in 1963 and remained there until 1991. He became the centre's scientific director in 1977.

Research Room's research pertains to alcohol, illegal drugs, and gambling behavior.

Editorial activities Room is the editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Drug and Alcohol Review. He has also received the Jellinek Award for Alcohol Studies in 1983, and was established as Honorary President in recognition of his service in 2011.