I undertake a range of research, communication, interpretation and governance work on a consultancy and pro bono basis:

• trustee of the Gardens Trust;
• convenor and chair of two online lecture series on international Unforgettable Gardens for the Historic Gardens Foundation and the Gardens Trust;
• convenor and chair of a lecture series on “Other Voices in Garden History” for the Gardens Trust;
• tutor, English Landscape Gardens: 1650 to the Present Day, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education;
• chair of the Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield;
• teaching on the Histories of Landscape Architecture course at the Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield;
• garden historian for the Broomhill Community Library project to restore the Percy Cane garden at Oriel House, 10 Taptonville Road, Sheffield;
• trustee for the Historic Gardens Foundation and Joint Editor of its magazine, Historic Gardens Review;
• supplying consulting advice for “Gardens of Power and Passion,” the first programme in the the BBC 2 TV series Monty Don’s French Gardens;
• investigating the existence and maintenance of old examples of Buxus sempervirens suffruticosa (edging box plants) for the head gardener at a significant French heritage site;
• acting as advisor to the Delhi-based cultural consultancy firm Flow India,
• providing translation services for the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) International Secretariat, London,
• acting as historic gardens consultant for the book Building Old Cambridge, Architecture and Development, by Susan E. Maycock and Charles M. Sullivan,
• producing a detailed historical chronology and statement of significance for Chestnut Hill reservoir, a piece of work that underpinned the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Resource Management Plan for the landscape,
• producing detailed site histories for the Friends of Plant Park in Tampa, Florida, and for the Olmsted-designed grounds of Newton City Hall in Massachusetts (while working for Pressley Associates, Inc.),
• contributing to the Warren H. Manning research project run by the Library of American Landscape History,
• providing original research and photographs for the Dan Kiley compensatory archive at Harvard University’s Francis Loeb Library Special Collections.