Amber Roberts

Landscape historian and curator with over a decade of experience working across academia, practice, and public engagement. My work focuses on the history and care of gardens and designed landscapes, with particular interests in post-war design, inclusive interpretation, and the role of landscape in public memory. I’ve led exhibitions, research projects, and teaching programmes exploring how landscape shapes cultural identity, and how we communicate that history to wide audiences. I bring strong experience in collaborative working, storytelling across media, and a deep commitment to heritage as a shared, living resource.

• Roberts, A., & Csepely-Knorr, L. (2025). Michael Brown’s Social Housing Landscapes in London: Design Intentions and Post-Construction Realities. Architecture and Culture.
• Roberts, A. (2024). Ian McHarg’s ‘imaginative connectedness’ with Scotland: Tracing his transatlantic pedagogy and knowledge transfer in the mid-twentieth century. Journal of Landscape Architecture, 19(2), 8-17.
• Roberts, A. (2021) “Age-Friendly Urban Policy and City Design in Toyama City, Japan.” Urban Design Journal, Autumn.
• Roberts, A. (2019) “Design With Nature.” Landscape, Issue 4, pp. 17–21.
• Roberts, A. & Csepely-Knorr, L. (2017) “The Lost Glory of the Royal Northern College of Music Roof Garden.” The Modernist, Issue 24, pp. 48–52.
• Roberts, A. & Csepely-Knorr, L. (2017) “Urban Landscape Approaches in a Deindustrialised Town.” Journal of Landscape Architecture, 12(3), pp. 32–45.
• Roberts, A. et al. (2013) “Research Directions for Heritage and Identity Landscape Studies.” In: Rome Le:Notre Working Group Monograph.
• “Michael Brown’s Urban Landscapes for Play” (with Dr. Luca Csepely-Knorr), Material Cultures of Play Symposium, Liverpool, 2023
• “Twentieth-Century Housing Landscapes of Darbourne & Darke”, FOLAR, Reading, 2022
• “Scotland–America Transatlantic Links in Landscape Architecture”, ECLAS, Ljubljana, 2022
• Keynote: “Food Security and Best Practice”, Landscape Institute Scotland AGM, 2021
• “Design With Nature and Transatlantic Influence”, ENSP, Versailles, 2018
• “Urban Identity in NW Industrial Towns”, PLAN:Baltic, Hamburg, 2014

• Landscape Institute Scotland, Touring Exhibition – £10,000 (2019–2021)
• Mark Turnbull Travel Fellowship – £2,500 (2020)
• Paul Mellon Research Support Grant – £2,000 (2018–2019)
• André Le Nôtre Writing Fellowship, ENSP – €6,000 (2019)
• Dumbarton Oaks Research Grant – $3,000 (2018)
• LIS Fellowship: “Urban Design for Ageing” – £5,000 (2018)
• MERL Academic Engagement Bursary – £1,000 (2016–2017)
• Doctoral Studentship, MIRIAD – £12,000
• MRes Scholarship, MIRIAD – Full award