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Our staff, Board of Trustees, members and partners represent a broad range of disciplines: geographers, planners, landscape architects and urban designers, archaeologists and ecologists, to list but a few. This diversity is fundamental to a holistic understanding of landscape – its evolution and its future.
Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in landscape and the ways we shape, and are shaped by, the places in which we live.
Incorporated and registered as a charity in 1983, LRG became a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) in 2021.
LRG has long played a significant role in the development of international landscape policy. Read about the group’s role in the origins and development of the European Landscape Convention (ELC), which celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary on 20 October 2025..
For more details on the history of the LRG, also have a look at the article “Fifty years of Landscape Research Group” by Steven Shuttleworth, founder member and former Treasurer and Company Secretary of the organisation, written in 2017 to mark the LRG’s 50th anniversary.
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Our Trustees are an active and personable group of people, with different backgrounds, interests and expertise.
We welcome expressions of interest for new Trustees at any time. If you’re interested in the work of LRG and helping develop its activities and strategic direction, please do contact our Chair in the first instance.
Elections for new Trustees are held annually.
Chair
Professor Emerita, Department of Geography, Environmental and Planning, Sonoma State University, USA
Vice Chair
Head of Department of Planning & Environmental Management
University of Manchester, UK
Landscape Research Journal Editor-In-Chief
Centre for Landscape and Culture, Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia
Associate Editor
Lecturer in Urban Design and Planning Department
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Treasurer
Lecturer in Landscape Architecture
Manchester School of Architecture, UK
Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice, Sutherland School of Law
University College Dublin, Ireland
Landscape Engineer, Assistant Professor and Researcher
Higher Agronomic Institute of Chott Meriem Sousse Tunisia
Associate Professor and Head of School of Landscape Architecture
Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand
Associate Professor
Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, China
Independent Researcher, Landscape Architect and Volunteer, UK
Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture School of Design.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Artfulnature Scientist
La Seyne sur Mer, France
Senior Lecturer in Landscape
Newcastle University, UK
