Joanne Phillips

Dr Joanne Phillips serves as a Lecturer at the School of Architecture and Landscape, University of Sheffield, while maintaining a concurrent decade-long position as an associate lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). Her teaching portfolio at MMU encompasses landscape research, history, and theory, with specialized expertise in planting design methodology and practice.

Her research investigates human relationships with botanical environments, focusing on cultural and ecological dimensions of plant engagement within rural landscapes. She champions a dynamic, process-oriented framework for understanding vegetation that deliberately integrates wild ecosystems with cultivated spaces, emphasizing temporal evolution and ecological authenticity in landscape design.