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LRG Trustee Appointments for 2025

Following our Annual General Meeting on 5 September 2025, we are delighted to announce the appointment of three new Trustees to the LRG Board, Dr. Saïda Hammami, Dr. Charlotte L McLean and Dr. Charlotte Veal. To help members learn more about their background and expertise, brief biographies are provided below.

We are also pleased to confirm that existing Trustees Dr. Gillian Lawson and Prof. Ian Mell have been re-elected for a further term on the Board.

With these appointments, the Board is strengthened by an even greater diversity of perspectives and experiences. We look forward to the innovative ideas and leadership our new Trustees will contribute. Their combined expertise, alongside that of our continuing Trustees, will ensure that LRG continues to thrive as a forward-thinking and internationally engaged organisation.

Finally, we extend our sincere gratitude to our outgoing Trustee and former Chair, Prof. Tim Waterman, whose profound and lasting impact has shaped LRG’s development. We are pleased that he will remain actively involved as both an ambassador and member.

Dr. Saïda Hammami

Landscape Engineer, Assistant Professor and Researcher

Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Meriem Sousse, Tunisia

Saida Hammami is a landscape engineer and holds a PhD in Landscape, Territory, and Heritage from the Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Meriem, as well as a second PhD in Landscape Science and Architecture from AgroParisTech. Her research focuses on urban and peri-urban agriculture, agroforestry, urban forestry, and ecological landscape design, integrating innovative nature-based solutions for sustainable territorial development.
 
Alongside her research, Saida is a trainer and actively supports projects in community gardening and agroecology with a landscape-based approach. She collaborates with local authorities, schools, and community organisations to design and manage multifunctional green spaces that combine food production, biodiversity, comfort, and urban quality of life.
 
Her multidisciplinary approach combines scientific rigor, technical expertise, and pedagogy, enabling her to develop sustainable and inclusive territorial projects that integrate environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Her work contributes to promoting nature-friendly urbanisation and strengthening the connections between communities, agriculture, and resilient landscapes. territorial projects that integrate environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Her work contributes to promoting nature-friendly urbanisation and strengthening the connections between communities, agriculture, and resilient landscapes.

Dr. Charlotte L McLean

Independent Researcher, Landscape Architect and Volunteer, UK

Dr Charlotte McLean has pursued both a professional and academic career. She recently qualified as a post doctorate graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University and her thesis examined post war landscape infrastructure in Scotland, an under-researched period of landscape history in Britain, through analysis of the archive of Scottish landscape architect Mark Turnbull (1943 – 2016). Unlike most academic research surrounding ‘rural modernism’ to date, this thesis recognises landscape as a critical agent of cultural change, and places it centre stage, whilst grounding the research within a distinctly Scottish context.

Charlotte is also a chartered landscape architect and has over 30 years’ experience in landscape design and conservation. She has enjoyed a wide-ranging career, with extensive experience in the private sector and on the planning side as landscape architect for Historic England in southeast England. She has worked in Italy, France, Germany and Australia.

Voluntary positions include friend of Linn Botanic Gardens (2015-21), director of the Rosneath West Peninsula Community Development Trust for over 10 years (2015-25) and member of the steering group for Cove and Kilcreggan Local Place Plan (2022-25). She is currently leading a project to digitise a local history archive.

Publication/Outputs:
Landscape London: A guide to recent gardens, parks and urban spaces published by Ellipsis in 2001.
PhD thesis ‘Landscape Design, Planning and Infrastructure: Scottish Landscape Architecture through the work of Mark Turnbull (1943-1916)’ 2024

Dr. Charlotte Veal

Senior Lecturer in Landscape, Newcastle University, UK

Dr Charlotte Veal is an internationally recognised interdisciplinary scholar working at the intersections of landscape studies, cultural-political geography, security studies, and performance studies. Her research bridges cultural and political landscapes, advancing participatory, socially engaged, and arts-led methodologies that challenge conventional thinking and open new ways of understanding and responding to the urgent social-ecological crises of the Anthropocene.
 
Charlotte’s work is grounded in transdisciplinary concepts, theory, and practice, to explore how people conceive, experience, and reimagine landscapes in times of profound change. Her research focuses on several interrelated areas:

  • International borderscapes: examining the mechanisms and measures of ‘securing’ landscapes and people, including militarism, bio-/spatial politics, and the everyday, phenomenological experiences of borderlands.
  • Cultural landscapes and intangible heritage: investigating how cultural practices, performance, and narrative shape identity, memory, and international relations, with particular attention to arts-as-diplomacy and arts-as-wellbeing.
  • Multispecies relations and environmental humanities: exploring human-nonhuman entanglements (e.g. beasts/companion species, wilding, nature-based thinking) to envision more just and inclusive landscape futures.
  • Coastal communities and seascapes: including seascape storytelling, sensory and embodied encounters with the ocean, blue humanities, coastal resilience, and seascape character assessment.
 
Her research is actively shaping agendas across arts and cultural organisations, peace NGOs, and environmental policy. She currently serves on the Landscape-Seascape Advisory Board for the Marine Management Organisation/Natural England, is an Editor of cultural geographies, and has previously held advisory roles with FOLAR and the RGS-IBG, where she served as Early Career and Mentoring Officer. Charlotte is currently the Director of Research in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Co-Director of The Landscape Collaboratory (with Prof. Maggie Roe), and a member of the Steering Committee for the University’s Centre for Research Excellence in Landscape.

Interested in becoming a future Trustee of LRG? The first step is to join LRG as a member, sign up for our newsletter and get involved in our activities. Trustee recruitment takes place each year in the lead-up to the AGM, so keep an eye out for announcements. For any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

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