Professor Marion Harney BA (Hons), MPhil, PhD Faculty of Engineering & Design Associate Dean (Education)

Marion oversees strategies for learning, teaching and student experience for undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses in the Faculty.

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Role

Professor Marion Harney was appointed Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Engineering & Design in 2021.

She is a Professor in Building and Landscape Conservation in the Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering.

Member of the Bath World Heritage Advisory group since 2007
Member of the National Trust's Historic Environment Advisory Group
Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster
Member of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture (CASA)
Member of ICOMOS-UK Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes Committee.

Research

History and theory of historic, designed and cultural landscapes and their conservation
Eighteenth century landscape and literature
Digital reconstruction of lost landscapes

This person is available to supervise research degree projects

Publications

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Career

Professor Marion Harney is Professor of Building & Landscape Conservation, Associate Dean Education in the Faculty of Engineering & Design, Academic Lead of the Curriculum Transformation Steering Group, University Athena SWAN Lead, Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster, and External Examiner at the University of London.

Marion devised the postgraduate degree course, Conservation of Historic Gardens and Cultural Landscapes, and was Director of Studies for its duration; she now convenes the Cultures & Frameworks Unit on this course.

Marion is involved in Curriculum Transformation and the design and delivery of high-quality education at the University, at both a Faculty and Department level, continually improving and developing unique, highly respected specialist programmes that enable students to become independent and competent learners and practitioners, equipped to resolve global issues.

Marion’s book ‘Place-Making for the Imagination: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill’, (Surrey, 2013) won the prestigious international John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize in 2015 which recognises books that have made significant contributions to the study and understanding of garden history and landscape studies.

She has also undertaken significant editorial duties for a commissioned Wiley Blackwell book ‘Gardens and Landscapes in Historic Building Conservation’ (ed.) (Oxford, 2014) and invited to contribute to the special tercentenary edition of Image & Narrative on Horace Walpole (2017).

Marion has recently given invited lectures at a special session of IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects) in South Korea (2022), the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS) in Oxford and the International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ISECS) in Edinburgh, and invited speaker for the Prokalò Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh. She is also a regular participant and author for the EAAE Thematic Network on Conservation.

Education

BA (hons) degree in English Literature, University of Bristol
MPhil in Architectural History and Theory, University of Bath
PhD, University of Bath