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Dr Kirsten Tatum

Course Leader, MA Landscape Architecture Studies (Online) | Senior Lecturer, Master of Architecture (Part 2 ARB/RIBA)BA (Hons), PG Cert, PhD, PCTHE, AMLI
Email me: ktatum@aub.ac.uk

Overview

Dr Tatum's interests, qualifications and experience span a range of built environment disciplines including landscape architecture, urban design and architecture. She holds a PhD from the University of Nottingham on the topic of design in UK National Parks. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association and history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She is also a qualified garden designer. Originally from Canada, she has professional experience working in design practices in the UK and abroad, including at Foster and Partners in Tokyo and TSP Architects and Planners in Singapore. She has taught a range of built environment courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels across a variety of institutions and with diverse student bodies. She is an Academic Member of the Landscape Institute UK.

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Contact:

Name: Dr Kirsten Tatum she/her
Email: ktatum@aub.ac.uk
Phone: 01202363855
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-1970-7511

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • PhD Architecture (University of Nottingham)
  • PGCert Architecture (University of Plymouth)
  • RIBA Part 1 (Architectural Association School of Architecture)
  • BA (Hons) History of Art (Courtauld Institute of Art)

Teaching Qualification

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Higher Education (Oxford Brookes University)

Teaching

Current roles

  • Course Leader, MA Landscape Architecture Studies (Online)
  • Senior Lecturer, Master of Architecture (Part 2 ARB/RIBA)

Previous roles

  • Visiting Lecturer, Critical and Historical Studies, MA Architecture, City Design, Environmental Design, and Interior Design (Royal College of Art)
  • Visiting Lecturer, BA (Hons) Architecture (Norwich University of the Arts)
  • Associate Lecturer, BA (Hons) Architecture (Sheffield Hallam University)
  • Dissertation Tutor, Masters of Architecture (Manchester School of Architecture)
  • Course Tutor, MArch. Diploma Thesis Studio (University of Nottingham)

Courses

Research

Research Interests and Projects

Kirsten's research reflects her interdisciplinary background and interests, exploring the interconnected ecological and social processes connecting landscape and architecture across multiple urban scales, including contested rurality, landscape planning and regulation, national park planning, authorised heritage discourse, and competing sustainabilities.

Research Supervision

Dr Tatum is interested in receiving applications from PhD students across a range of built environment disciplines.

  • Former PhD student (intermitted): Karen Browning, "The space in the mirror: generating new perceptions of place in the Poole Harbour landscape".

Research Outputs

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Tatum, Kirsten (2018-02-13) Exceptional design in an Iconic Landscape? Interpretations of landscape and residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park
Tatum, Kirsten (2017-10-10) A feeling for what's best : Landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England

Professional Engagement

Developing Research and Knowledge Transfer activities with local partners including the National Trust, BCP Council and the Russel-Cotes Museum.

Awards and Prizes

Notable awards/prizes

  • EPSRC funded 3-year PhD Studentship (University of Nottingham)
  • Graduate School Travel Prize (University of Nottingham)
  • Dartmoor Arts Project Spatial Structures Bursary
  • Garden Design Prize (English Gardening School)
  • RIBA Part 1 Dissertation Prize (Architectural Association School of Architecture)

Memberships

Professional Memberships

  • Academic Member of the Landscape Institute (AMLI)