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Emma Oldroyd

Senior Lecturer

Emma Oldroyd is an experienced chartered Landscape Architect with a background in practice and academia gathered over 20 years working mainly in the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Her project experience spans regeneration, masterplanning, strategic planning and working in partnership with public, private and community clients and groups.

Emma has an arts background and delights in the design process, interdisciplinary work and enabling others. She is passionate about the delivery of excellent, responsive, and nature positive outcomes.

Previous Landscape Lead at Arup, Ireland, and Course Leader of the BALAD course at Leeds Beckett, Emma has now joined Leeds Beckett University as a Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture contributing to BA and MA Landscape Architecture and Design programmes.

Current Teaching

BALAD 501 Resilient Rural Landscapes
BALAD 502 Design Impacts
BALAD 504 City Landscapes - Nature-based Solutions
BALAD 505 Creating Distinctive Places
BALAD 604-5 Specialist Design Project

Research Interests

Emma's current research focuses on the development of Nature-based Solutions and Blue Green Infrstructure Frameworks that reflect and improve places for people and nature. The work she is involved in is influencing planning authorities and local government at a national level in the Republic of Ireland and across Europe.

Leeds School of Arts

Ask Me About

Masterplanning
Regenerative Design
Urban Agriculture
Urban Design
Community
Design
Landscape architecture
Sustainability

Selected Outputs

Oldroyd ELT; Clavin A (2012) Nested scales and design activism: an integrated approach to food growing in inner city Leeds. In: Viljoen A; Wiskerke JSC ed. Sustainable Food Planning: evolving theory and practice. Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, pp. 405-418.

Oldroyd ELT (2012) Backyard permaculture in the City. In: Leeds Permaculture Network, 11 April 2012, Leeds, UK.
Oldroyd ELT; Clavin AA (2011) Food Focused Front Gardens; A Changing Culture?. In: Ethics & Aesthetics | European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools annual conference, 7 September 2011 - 10 September 2011, Sheffield.
Oldroyd ELT (2011) Back to Front Spring Fun Event. In: Shine, 16 April 2011, Harehills, Leeds.
Oldroyd ELT (2011) Back to Front. In: Leeds Climate Change Conference | Actions for Food, 25 March 2011, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.
Oldroyd ELT; Thompson N (2011) Back To Front workshop. In: TINWOLF, 17 January 2011, Headingley, Leeds.
Oldroyd ELT (2010) Food, Futures and Front Gardens. In: LIYHB | Landscape at Leeds Research Night, 23 November 2010, Leeds Metropolitan University.
Oldroyd ELT; Clavin AA (2010) Nested Scales and Design Activism: an integrated approach to food growing in inner city Leeds. In: AESOP Sustainable Food Planning Conference, 31 October 2010, Brighton, UK.
Oldroyd ELT; Clavin AA (2010) Nesting Scales of Food Security: an integrated response to growing food in deprived Leeds neighbourhoods. In: Urban Green Space Colloquium, 2 June 2010, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK.

Oldroyd ELT; Appleyard G Castleford Queens Mill Exhibition: Community engagement exhibition on behalf of Castleford Heritage trust Castleford. 1 July 2013 - 1 August 2013.
Oldroyd ELT; Appleyard G Castleford Queens Mill Stakeholder Design Workshop: Community design workshop on behalf of Castleford Heritage trust Castleford. 26 March 2013.
Oldroyd ELT; Heywood S Design and Community Exhibition of student work on 8 live projects in West Yorkshire Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK. 31 January 2013.
Oldroyd ELT Food, Futures and Climate Change RHS Leeds, Leeds. 1 May 2012.
Oldroyd ELT Back to Front exhibition at Shine Harehills, Leeds. 25 March 2010.