Since completing Post-Graduate Studies in Landscape Architecture and obtaining a Graduate Diploma with Distinction from Leeds Metropolitan University a career as a Landscape practitioner has been complimented by research activity which has included exploring many literatures and concepts within the field of socially responsive urban design, environmental psychology and place theory. There has also been an exploration of the application and development of the research in the context of 'research by studio teaching' with post graduate and undergraduate students. In addition attendance and presentations at conferences and courses has been undertaken as an integral part of the research development.

The research programme has been in collabaration with
Dr. Kevin Thwaites of The University of Sheffield, and resulted in the establishment and development of the Experiential Landscape Place Research and Development Unit (elp:rdu). In addition the research activity has led to being a member of UStED (Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design) an International network of researcher's educationalists and practitioners, gathering, updating, co-ordinating and disseminating tools of Sustainable Urban Design, with special emphasis on ‘public space’ (www.usted-urbandesign.org)

Details of my current PhD research can be accessed by clicking here.

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