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Dr Kirsten Tatum

Senior Lecturer M.Arch. Architecture and Programme Leader MA Landscape Architecture StudiesBA (Hons), PG Cert, PhD, PCTHE, AMLI
Email me: ktatum@aub.ac.uk

Overview

Dr Kirsten Tatum is a Senior Lecturer on the Master of Architecture course at AUB, where she is responsible for leading the Year 1 Units. She is also Programme Leader for the new online MA Landscape Architecture Studies course currently in development. Kirsten holds a PhD on the topic of architecture in UK National Parks. She studied architecture at the Architectural Association and art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

She is also a qualified landscape designer. Originally from Canada, she has lived and worked in seven different countries, including at Foster and Partners in Tokyo and TSP Architects and Planners in Singapore. Her teaching practice reflects her interdisciplinary background and research interests.

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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 (Plymouth University)
  • 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

  • Programme Leader, MA Landscape Architecture Studies. Lead academic driving development and delivery of new online MA course.
  • Senior Lecturer, Master of Architecture. Unit Leader for all M.Arch. Year 1 units. Design tutor for M.Arch. Year 2. Specialist support for landscape and professional planning plus contextual studies.

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, M.Arch. 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

  • Former 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)