Associate Professor Robert Kidd

Qualifications
Biography
Research
Selected Publications
Grants/Current Projects
Teaching
Awards/Honours
Professional Activities

Qualifications

DipPodMed; CertFurtherEdu;  B.Arts Hons; PhD (Distinc)

Biography

My academic career started in Manchester in 1980 when I joined the staff at what is now The University of Salford. In 1987 I moved to what is now The University of Northampton. I also tutored Field Geology in The Department of Earth Sciences at The Open University. I left the UK in 1990 to join the staff of Curtin University in Western Australia. I arrived at University of Western Sydney (UWS) in late 1995. In all these positions I taught the anatomical and anthropological components of Podiatric Medicine. I am now in the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences teaching anatomy exclusively.

When not working, I am either sailing or travelling.

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Research

• The evolution of the bipedal habit in hominins
• Multivariate and geometric morphometrics of the primate skeletal system
• Morphometric analysis of the marsupial locomotor system
• Cancellous bone structure in Charcot's neuropathy
• Collagen synthesis in diabetes

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Selected Publications

Book Chapters

Kidd, R.S. (1997). Patterns of Morphological Discrimination in the Human Talus: a Consideration of the Case for Negative Function (Kidd & Oxnard) In: Perspectives in Human Biology Volume Three: Human Adaptability: Future Trends and Lessons From the Past, Oxnard & Freedman (Eds). World Scientific Singapore, pp 51-70
 
Kidd, R.S. (2001). Individual and Integrated Analyses of Tarsal Morphology: A Case study in Humans In: The Causes and Effects of Human Variation, Henneberg M (Ed). Department of Anatomical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, pp 61-81 
 
Kidd, R.S. (2004). On the Nature of Morphology: Selected Canonical Variates Analysis of the Hominoid Hindtarsus and Their Interpretation. In: Shaping Primate Evolution Anapol, German & Jablonski (Eds). Cambridge University Press, pp 162-92

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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Zipfel, B., DeSilva, J.M., and Kidd, R.S. (2009). Earliest Complete Hominin Fifth Metatarsal Implications for the Evolution of the Lateral Column of the Foot. The American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140: 532-545.

Zipfel, B., and Kidd, R.S. (2008). Size and Shape of a human foot bone from Klasies River main site, South Africa. Palaeontologica africana, 43: 51b56

Zipfel, B., and Kidd, R.S. (2006). Hominin First Metatarsals (SKX 5017 and SK 1813) from Sterkfontein: a Morphometric Analysis. Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 57: 117-31
 
Kidd, R.S., and Oxnard, C.E. (2005). Little Foot and Big Thoughts - a Re-evaluation of the Stw573 Foot from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 55:3 189-212

Duffin, A.C., Kidd, R.S., Chan, A.K., and Donaghue, K.C. (2003). High Plantar Pressure and Callus in Diabetic Adolescents. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association, 93: 214-20

Kidd, R.S., and Oxnard, C.E. (2002). Patterns of Morphological Discrimination in Selected Human Tarsal Elements. The American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 117: 169-81

Duffin, A.C., Lam, A., Kidd, R.S., Chan, A.K., and Donaghue, K.C. (2002). Ultrasonography of Plantar soft tissue thickness in young people with diabetes Diabetic Medicine, 19: 1009-13

Hogan, D., and Kidd, R.S. (2001). Reliability and validity of goniometres when measuring the first metatarsophalangeal joint in stance Australasian. Journal of Podiatric Medicine, 35: 19-22

Hogan, D., and Kidd, R.S. (2001). Do functional foot orthoses change the range of motion of the first metatarsophalangeal joint of hallux rigidus?
Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine, 35: 39-41

Kidd, R.S. (2000). Forefoot Supinatus: Another fictitious pathology, or have we missed the point? Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine, 34: 81-5

Kidd, R.S. (1999). Evolution of the Hindfoot: A model of Adaptation with Evidence from the Fossil Record. Journal of the American Podiatric Medical
Association, 89: 2-17

Kidd, R.S. (1998). The Past is the key to the present: Thoughts on the origins of human foot structure function and dysfunction as seen from the fossil record The Foot, 8: 75-84

Kidd, R.S. (1997). Forefoot Varus: real or false, fact or fantasy? The Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine, 31: 81-86

Kidd, R.S., O'Higgins, P., and Oxnard, C.E. (1996). The OH8 Foot: a reappraisal of the functional morphology of the hindfoot utilizing a multivariate analysis. The Journal of Human Evolution, 31: 269-291

Redmond, A.C., and Kidd, R.S. (1996). The Internet Implications for the Podiatrist and Modern Podiatric Practice II. The Journal of British Podiatric
Medicine, 51: 134-8

Redmond, A.C., and Kidd, R.S. (1995). The Internet: Implications for the Podiatrist and Modern Podiatric Practice. The Journal of British Podiatric Medicine, 50: 142-6

Kidd, R.S. (1993). The long arch: new thoughts on the evolution of an old structure. Australian Podiatrist, 27: 35-43

Kidd, R.M, and Kidd, R.S. (1993) The role of abnormal collagen synthesis in the pathomechanics of the diabetic foot: a revaluation of the paradigm of neuropathy in podiatric practice. Australian Podiatrist, 27: 97-101

Kidd, R.S. (1992). Torque Conversion, the Hominoid Foot and the Arch: a Review of Long Arch Function in Hominids. Proceedings of the Australasian Society for Human Biology, 5: 375-89

Kidd, R.S. (1992). Gradualistic evolution as expressed in the hominoid talus. The Journal of British Podiatric Medicine, 48: 171-174

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Grants/Current projects

• Ongoing research with Professor Charles Oxnard (UWA) and Dr Peter Obendorf (RMIT) on the morphology and phylogeny of Homo Floresiensis
• Ongoing research with Dr Bernhard Zipfel at the University of Witwatersrand on recent hominid pedal fossil finds

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Teaching

I currently teach in Topographic anatomy and Quantitative methods of shape analysis.

Awards/Honours

• Fellow, Centre for Human Biology, The University of Western Australia
• Honorary Research Associate, Institute for Human Evolution, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits, 2050 Wits, South Africa

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Professional Activities

Podium Presentations at the following conferences:

• Annual Conference of The American Association of Physical Anthropologists (April 1994)
• African Genesis: A symposium on hominid evolution in Africa University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg (January 2006)
• Australian Podiatry Council Bi-annual Conference (1992, 1996, 1998, 2007)
• UK Podiatry Conference (1997)
• Annual Conference of The Australasian Society for Human Biology (each December since 1990)

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