I am a long-term Editor for the International journal Landscape Research (Managing Editor 2004-08 Consulting Editor 2009-14, 2021-current Deputy Editor 2008-20) and was Director of the charity Landscape Research Group (2004-19). I am an Academic Fellow of the Landscape Institute (AFLI) and LI College of Fellows. I was instrumental in the establishment of Natural England’s Landscape Advisory Group (LAG). I also acted as Academic Lead of the Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership (NIEDTP)(2016-19 ) and Director of Landscape Programmes (2001-4).Įxternally I am a member of UK Government’s (Defra) Trees & Woodlands Science Advisory Committee (TAW-SAG), the Natural England Science Advisory Committee (NESAC) and the new Foresight Project (Science and Innovation for the Natural Environment). My roles and responsibilities include appointment by the NU Executive Board to serve on Court 2022-25, leader of the Landscape Collaboratory in the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, School Postgraduate Research Committee Member, University Staff PhD Moderator, mentor and line-manager to PDRAs, and NU Peer Review College member. Immediately prior to this I was on a p/t buyout for REF2021 sub-panel 13/Interdisciplinary Advisor duties and before that I was Dean of Postgraduate Studies in HaSS Faculty - a senior leadership position within the University. I have established an international profile as a respected researcher, rigorous peer reviewer, advisor in landscape research, policy and publishing, and leader in landscape research, teaching and learning.Īt Newcastle I am currently Co-Director of the Newcastle University Centre for Landscape (NUCoRE), a newly formed interdisciplinary research centre to examine and advance understandings of the complex interactions and relationships between people and landscapes. I have experience on a wide range of multi-disciplinary research and consultancy landscape projects which involve building partnerships between academics, communities, voluntary and statutory organisations. Prior to this I gained a BA(Hons) Landscape Architecture and DipLA from Leeds Polytechnic and worked in practice with Landscape Design Associates (LDA), David Bellamy Associates and Woolerton Truscott. Wilson, and also at MIT with Evelyn Fox-Keller and Leo Marx, and Yale with Florencia Montagnini. I studied with Carl Steinitz, Richard Forman, and E.O. I joined Newcastle University in 1994 following studies based at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University funded by a Kennedy Scholarship where I developed a wide-ranging cross-disciplinary understanding of landscape approaches. My background is in Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning and Landscape Ecology.
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