Landscape Research Group

Who we are

The Landscape Research Group enables landscape research with the potential to contribute towards greater justice and sustainability

The LRG is an international, independent and not-for-profit organisation that promotes interdisciplinary research across boundaries.

Our distinctive priority is to promote research that contributes towards more equitable and sustainable relationships between people and landscape.  Our Research Strategy calls for creative and proactive responses to some of the major challenges facing modern society.

We see the relationship between people and landscape as a fundamental aspect of life for everyone, everywhere.  Through our trustees, members and partnerships, we represent a broad range of disciplines and interests.  We connect people, knowledge and learning in the arts, humanities, social sciences and sciences.  We forge links between the world of research and other areas of society and life.  Our membership is open to anyone who has an interest in landscape and in the ways we shape, and are shaped by, the places in which we live.  Fostering this diverse community is fundamental to achieving a full and varied understanding of landscape and to realising the public benefits that can flow from landscape research.

• With our publishing partner Taylor & Francis, LRG publishes the highly-respected international and inter-disciplinary journal, Landscape Research 
• We grant-fund research projects.
• We organise a regular programme of research showcase and debate events in the UK and also support and collaborate with others in organising events online, in the UK, across Europe and around the world.
• We communicate widely through our online Landscape Research Exchange, websites,  e-bulletins and through social media.
• The Group has a small but growing international membership, with members in over thirty countries and territories worldwide.

Our strategic priorities include:

• sustaining and enhancing our activities that promote and disseminate landscape research;
• developing our membership, networks and partnerships;
• increasing and diversifying income; and
• enhancing LRG’s profile and influence.