Landscape Architecture Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

The PhD and MPhil in Landscape Architecture is for those with a background in landscape architecture (or adjacent field) who wish to pursue a rigorous piece of academic scholarship under specialist supervisory guidance.

We welcome applicants with a strong idea of what they want to research and how they will carry it out. You will be expected to conduct fieldwork and engage with primary source materials, interpreting this alongside existing literature in the field. The aim of the research programme is to make an original and substantial contribution to knowledge in a chosen topic of study.

Themes include:

* cultural landscapes and critical heritage studies

* multispecies studies  

* time and environment

* spatial and environmental justice

* landscape experience and aesthetics

* climate futures and risk landscapes

* urban theory and infrastructure

* decolonial epistemologies

* practice-based landscape architectural design research (including community-based projects)

* landscape and wellbeing (within OPENspace research centre)

* computational and GIS spatial research methods