LI life By Laura Schofield
Fellow appointments At the LI’s AGM in early February, the Landscape Institute welcomed 14 new industry leaders to its College of Fellows, including seven through its successful invited route, as well as seven new invited Chartered members.
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utgoing Chief Executive Dan Cook, who helped recruit many of the new Fellows, said: “It’s great to see such impressive industry leaders from a diverse range of disciplines and locations who stand ready to help promote landscape. They are ready and willing to champion our response to today’s most important issues – including climate, biodiversity, and inclusion – and to help attract the next generation to this profession.” In addition to awarding professional recognition to landscape architects, the Landscape Institute recognises the need to welcome more practitioners who work across the breadth of landscape fields; reflect new and emerging areas of practice; and attract, include and support professionals from wider and more diverse backgrounds. After a period of research starting in 2017, the LI has been working with our sector to develop a new Competency Framework that reflects current and emerging areas of landscape practice. This is the first major update to our entry requirements in over a decade. As part of the emerging Entry Standards, we have sought applications 62
from experienced landscape practitioners to: – Build a wider pool of senior experts from diverse disciplines to enable the profession to broaden involvement of other landscape fields of practice – Encourage those leaders to be part of the LI, helping to grow the profession – Create better diversity by age, gender, and ethnicity to become more inclusive – To act as ambassadors for the profession Fellowship of the Landscape Institute is the highest form of Chartered Membership, awarded to our foremost innovators, leaders and ambassadors. Fellowship recognises the top experts in Landscape, as well as those who have made a special contribution to the development and promotion of the profession. In recognition of their outstanding achievements as Chartered Members of the Landscape Institute, the Board has conferred Fellowship on the following individuals, confirming their status as experts and senior leaders in landscape: Colette Bosley FLI Peter Hutchinson FLI, PPILI Susan Lowenthal FLI
Vanessa Ross FLI Julia-Nerantzia Tzortzi FLI Simon Ward FLI Simon White FLI Thanks to our successful invited membership route, we are also able to welcome these new Fellows to the LI, in recognition of their outstanding work in parks and greenspace, green infrastructure, conservation, and many other landscape-related fields: Zoe Banks Gross FLI Matthew Bradbury FLI Andrée Davies FLI Sarah Eberle FLI Paul Hamblin FLI Dr Gemma Jerome FLI Louise Wyman FLI Our invited route considers all possible grades of membership. As well as new Fellows, we welcomed a number of new invited Chartered members over the past year, in recognition of their specialist skills and contribution to the profession: Arit Anderson CMLI Ruth Childs CMLI Demet Karaoglu CMLI Dominic Liptrot CMLI Aaron Minson CMLI Sarah Price CMLI Paul Van Damme CMLI Interested in joining or nominating a peer for membership? If you wish to join the LI, are an existing LI member wanting to apply for Fellowship, or wish to nominate an accomplished peer for membership, please get in touch at membership@ landscapeinstiute.org.
Laura Schofield CMLI is the Membership Development Manager at the LI.
