Category: Staff News

Save the planet: fly to Java, “Garden of the East”

For much of the time teaching Appraising Landscapes and Sustainable Technology to the current first year students, I have been banging my drum about the global climate emergency, advocating some of the founding principles of the Extinction Rebellion…

CCRI Seminar Series 2019

Introducing the CCRI Seminar Series 2019: Capitals, gender and social contexts in small-scale fishing communities; Biosecurity strategy for plants and its implementation in Wales; and Rural Policy – a search for clarity. Please find further information at the…

URBAN FUTURES 2

Our annual research symposium recently was held at Rousham Gardens in Oxfordshire and at our campus at Cheltenham with invited guests from overseas academic institutions, and UK government agencies as well as staff and students from the landscape…

Allan Mitchell at THEI in Hong Kong

Allan Mitchell, undergraduate Course Leader for Landscape Architecture, recently visited THEI in Hong Kong to sign a collaborative partnership – see photo above. This encourages and develops the relationship between the courses with exciting opportunities for students and staff…

Allan Mitchell visits Fujian University, China

Allan Mitchell, Course Leader for the undergraduate programme in Landscape Architecture here at UoG, visited Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University to meet their Landscape Architecture department and give a presentation to their students last year. Allan described it as an…

AutoCAD evening classes

From 28th Sept the Landscape Architecture department will be offering AutoCAD evening classes at the University of Gloucestershire for anyone interested in learning or refreshing 2D AutoCAD. Please share with anyone who may be interested. See flyer or website…

The Terrarium Project – Undergraduate Applicant Day 2016

The Art and Design applicant day gave our UCAS applicants the fantastic opportunity to come and experience for a few hours what it’s like to be a student here at the UoG. We decided to give our applicants…

New library books available…

The landscape architecture section of the library has been expanded even further this year – a small fragment shown in the image above. Many thanks to Rachel Reid, our subject librarian, for organising this. Use the following link…

Urban Futures Symposium 2-4 August 2016

The University of Gloucestershire Landscape Architecture course, with support from CCRI, would like to announce their Urban Futures symposium. The full title of the symposium is Urban Futures : Researching the territory between Space, Heritage, Living and Environment in the…

Class of 1964 – 50th anniversary reunion

Three years ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the establishment in 1961 of our Landscape Architecture course. It was with great pleasure that we recently hosted the reunion of most of the class of students who started…