Rate My Professor Margaret Grose

Grose's research specializes in integrating ecological science with landscape architecture, focusing on constructed ecologies, conservation, and environmental literacy for design education. She teaches ecological design and coordinates subjects such as Constructed Ecologies in the Master of Landscape Architecture program. Her influential book, Constructed Ecologies: Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design, was published by Routledge in 2017. Key publications also include 'Gaps and futures in working between ecology and design for constructed ecologies' in Landscape and Urban Planning (2014), 'Mixing ecological science into landscape architecture' in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2019), and contributions to studies on Persian gardens, street lighting effects on health, and energy-saving through dimming streetlights. She has secured grants including the University of Melbourne Research Collaboration Grant in 2010 for understanding barriers to streetlight dimming and the Sargent Award for Visiting Scholars in 2018 from the Arnold Arboretum. Grose's work fosters interdisciplinary dialogue between ecology and design, enhancing practices in urban biodiversity, public open spaces, and sustainable landscape planning.