Jan Woudstra is a Reader in Landscape History and Theory at the University of Sheffield, where he has taught since 1995. Following his training in landscape planning in the Netherlands and horticulture at Kew, Jan completed his MA at the University of York with a thesis on groves, entitled ‘The wilderness in seventeenth and early eighteenth century gardens: history and conservation case studies’. He worked as a landscape consultant for Travers Morgan, and then his own practice EDA Environmental Design Associates as well as teaching at the Architectural Association, London at the two-year part-time postgraduate course ’Conservation of historic landscapes, parks and gardens’. He holds a PhD from the Department of Geography, University College London, with a thesis entitled ’Landscape for Living; garden theory and design of the Modern Movement’, and he has published widely, including The Politics of Street Trees (2022) with Camilla Allen; Capability Brown, Royal Gardener: The business of place-making in Northern Europe (2020), with Jonathan Finch; A History of Groves (2018) with Colin Roth; Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979) (2009) with David Jacques; and The Regeneration of Public Parks (2000) with Ken Fieldhouse. He is currently exploring issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in education, in a volume entitled 'Teaching Landscape History’, due to be published by Routledge in 2023.