Course summary
Our research profile includes the following areas which fall into two broad categories: Inclusive access to outdoor environments led by the OPENspace research centre:
- Exploration of how public open space, urban parks and squares, forests, green and blue spaces and rural areas can contribute to quality of life. Our work includes a focus on the benefits to be gained from getting outdoors and the barriers currently experienced by different users, particularly those from disadvantaged groups.
- Landscape design and planning to support young children, teenagers, older people, and other age groups and sectors within the population.
- Research on salutogenic environments (the health-enhancing qualities of engagement with certain types of landscape) and on discerning the mechanisms behind any links between wellbeing and the natural environment.
- Environmental perception, including empirical research on the transactional nature of people’s engagement with place.
- Landscape architecture as a force in urban planning including the application of landscape character assessment, the dynamics of peri-urban areas and future landscape scenarios.
- Innovative, practice-led design research, especially involving collaborations with artists and designers from disciplines outside landscape architecture.
- Cultural landscapes and the understanding the relationship of people through their lives to specific landscapes, including the role of memories and associations with contested landscapes.
- The history and theory of landscape architecture, including development of the public role of the landscape architect in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Modules
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on our website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.
Fees and funding
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