Honorary Professor in the Centre whose research, teaching and professional activities for over 35 years have focused on theory and practice of cultural heritage management; cultural heritage as process and changing perspectives in the heritagisation process internationally; cultural landscape meanings, values and management with particular reference to ordinary/everyday places; Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) approach to urban conservation from theoretically and practice perspectives; Reading the landscape; World Heritage challenges and politics. He is a regular visitor to SE Asia and China for teaching, research and as a conference speaker and has been Visiting Professor at universities in China, Thailand, India, Japan. He has been consultant with ICOMOS, ICCROM and UNESCO. In the context of the politics of global cultural heritage management and cultural landscape perspectives – urban and rural – he has increasingly focused on Southeast Asia and China and now visits China regularly to teach and follow research interests with Chinese colleagues. From 2006-2017 he was an Associate Editor of Landscape Research.
