Staff Profile

Neil began his professional life working as landscape architect for the New Zealand Forest Service and when that was disestablished he became the Conservancy Landscape Architect for the Department of Conservation’s West Cost Conservancy. Some years latter he began teaching at Lincoln, where he has taught widely across the degree. At the core of his teaching, however, are the areas of design, culture and the interaction between people and their environments. A key facet of this is the considerable and ongoing work he has does with Māori communities throughout both motu, linking students with sites, issues and the opportunities of Māori design settings, and providing communities with landscape architectural solutions. His not too secret goal is to use this to help find the landscape of Aotearoa and displace New Zealand for this older conceptual moniker. From 2001 to 2007 Neil was Programme Leader for Lincoln’s Singapore based BLA programme and in 2008 he became Group Leader of the Landscape Architecture Group; in 2006 he was awarded Lincoln University’s award for Excellence in Teaching.