Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc

Overview

The Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc is an innovative one-year postgraduate programme. This course will provide you with the intellectual and practical skills required for effective landscape planning and management.

As a landscape planner or landscape manager, you will design, care for, and maintain the countryside, as well as urban and coastal landscapes. You will ensure that these landscapes meet the needs and aspirations of present and future owners, communities and users.

What you will learn on our Master’s will be relevant worldwide. You’ll develop the skills needed to tackle key challenges facing contemporary society:

• climate change
• species loss
• rapid urbanisation
• migration (human and non-human)
• social justice and belonging
• heritage restoration

This Advanced Landscape Planning and Management course is suitable for:

• graduates in other disciplines who wish to qualify as professional landscape planners and managers
• landscape planners or managers who want to secure an academic qualification
• those with international landscape qualifications (or related disciplines) who wish to pursue professional studies in the UK
• those interested in advanced level research in landscape planning, landscape management, and landscape studies

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Your future

What can you do with an Advanced Landscape Planning and Management MSc?

This Master’s course will prepare you for an exciting career in landscape planning and landscape management. You will be ready to pursue dynamic job roles in diverse fields. You could go on to plan or manage:

• national parks
• coastlines
• heritage sites
• nature reserves
• environmental or forestry agencies
• wilding projects
• seascapes/water management

You will also be well placed to continue your studies at PhD level.

Our industry links

We have strong governmental, charitable, and industry links with:

• local governments
• National Parks (especially in the North East)
• Northumberland Wildlife Trust
• the Environment Agency
• Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• Community Forest
• European Forum on Urban Forestry
• Clearing House
• Natural England
• The National Trust
• Scottish Natural Heritage
• the European Commission
• Swiss Peace

We also have long-term sustained relationships with professional bodies including:

• The Landscape Institute
• The Landscape Research Group
• The Royal Town Planning Institute
• The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers

What our graduates say

"At Newcastle University, there are a lot of interesting teaching methods; my favourite one is the fieldtrip, because this kind of hands-on experience of the landscape can't be obtained by reading books and lectures. You use your body to understand the landscape. In my postgraduate year, I have also learnt a lot about landscape theory and history, and I have gained a better understanding of what landscape 'is'. The teacher(s) always provide space to think, feel, experience and innovate. Teachers do not deny your ideas, but encourage you, that everything is possible"

(Clara 2023-2024)

"The most intellectually stimulating aspect of the course is that it requires more critical thinking and knowledge of different disciplines (...). I believe that the course I have studied will be very helpful for my future career, and I have felt exactly how strong and deep the landscape culture is during my year of study in the UK. My experience at Newcastle University has been comfortable, from the time I first arrived in the city alone, to the time I finally left, by which time I felt a very secure sense of belonging, both on a School level and on a social level"

(Renjie 2023-2024)

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