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Join the global community for landscape research
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Landscape Research Group (LRG) brings together researchers, practitioners and students from around the world to explore landscapes across disciplines.
Whether you’re building your career, developing new collaborations or sharing your work, LRG provides the connections, opportunities and resources to help your research thrive.
Become part of an international community advancing landscape research.
How membership supports your research
Access research
- Complimentary online access to Landscape Research and five additional Routledge journals
- 30% discount on Routledge books and publications
Discover opportunities
- Eligibility for the annual LRG Research Fund
- Access to exclusive member resources, including Find Funded PhDs, the Methods Discovery Guide and the Community Pinboard
- International and themed Landscape Research Networks
Connect with a global community
- Opportunities to publish and share your work through Landscape Exchange (LEX)
- Reduced rates for conferences, webinars and events
- Regular member updates featuring funding, events, publications and opportunities
Help shape the future
- Vote in Trustee elections
- Stand for election to the Board
- Help shape the future of LRGHow membership supports your research
A membership that continues to grow
We’re continually investing in new services and resources for our members. As LRG develops towards our new combined LRG and Landscape Exchange platform in 2027, membership will continue to expand with new opportunities, tools and ways to connect.
An inclusive international community
We believe landscape research should be accessible to everyone.
Reduced membership rates are available for students, retirees, the unwaged and members living outside OECD countries. We also operate a hardship fund for those who would otherwise be unable to join.
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Become part of a global community connecting people, ideas and research across the many disciplines of landscape.
Welcome to our new trustee, Robin Hüppe
Meet Robin Hüppe, LRG’s newest trustee, whose interests span landscape and architectural history, environmental humanities, early-career research and international collaboration.
LRG AGM 2026: members approve constitutional changes and elect trustees
Members elected six trustees and approved new three-year Board terms at LRG’s 2026 AGM, alongside updates on research funding, publishing, networks and plans for our 60th anniversary.
New podcast revisits Laura Alice Watt’s The Paradox of Preservation as its tenth anniversary approaches
LRG Chair Professor Laura Alice Watt joins the *In Common* podcast to revisit ‘The Paradox of Preservation’ as the book approaches its tenth anniversary—and to consider what Point Reyes reveals about working landscapes, conservation and competing ideas of preservation.