Newcastle University

I am currently an independent researcher and policy advisor on heritage and landscape, and related matters, working frequently in European contexts. I am joint editor (with Paul Stamper) of the journal Landscapes (http://www.oxbowbooks.com/trade.cfm/Publisher/Windgather%20Press/SeriesID/579), a member of COST action IS1007 (http://www.culturalsustainability.eu/ and http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/isch/Actions/IS1007) and closely involved with the creation of a European Landscape Forum with ESF/COST support in the context of the ESF/COST Science Policy Briefing 'Landscape in a Changing World' (2010).

Until March 2012, after a long career in heritage management and landscape research, I was Head of Characterisation at English Heritage and before that I led the national Monuments Protection Programme. Since 1993 I led the development and implementaton to almost full coverae in England, of Historic Landscape Characterisation. My activities and research focus mainly on historic landscape, interdisciplinary landscape studies, heritage and archaeological resource management.  

I have served in succession on the Councils of the Institute of Field Archaeologists, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) and was a member of  the COST/ESF committee charged with producing the ESF/COST Science Policy Briefing ‘Landscape in a Changing World’, which I co-authored.

I am currently a member of the

·         Scientific Advisory Board of LE:NOTRE, an EU-funded Europe-wide network of landscape architecture schools,

·         MSRG committee,

·         Advisory Board for AHRC’s Landscape & Environment Impact Fellowship.

 (awaiting update, 27 march 2012)

During the last 25 years I have worked on a range of projects from co-writing PPG16 and developing EH policy on sustainability and the historic environment, to historic landscape and countryside matters, and I have worked closely with the implementation across Europe in conjunction with the Council of Europe of both the European Landscape Convention and the Faro Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society. 

I have been closely involved in several European landscape-based network projects (notably European Pathways to the Cultural Landscape, COST A27 Landmarks and Eucaland).

I am a member of grant advisory panels for the ESF, the Norwegian Research Council and the Netherlands  Council for the Humanities.

Current projects in which I am involved include the AHRC Research Network Early Modern Discourses of Environmental Change and Sustainability.

• Fairclough G. A prospect of time: interactions between landscape architecture and archaeology. In: Bell, S., Sarlov-Herlin, I., Stiles, R, ed. Exploring the boundaries of Landscape Architecture. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2011, pp.83-114.
• Fairclough G. Look the other way – from a branch of archaeology to a root of landscape studies. In: Linux Audio Conference. 2010, Utrecht, Netherlands.
• Fairclough G, van Londen H. Changing Landscapes of Archaeology and Heritage. In: Bloemers, J.H.F., Kars, H., van der Valk, A., Wijnen, M., ed. The cultural landscape and heritage paradox: Protection and development of the Dutch archaeological-historical landscape and its European dimension. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Amsterdam University Press, 2010, pp. 665-681.
• Fairclough G, Turner SC. Constructing a Eucaland Project classification. In:Kruse, A; Pungetti, G, ed. European Culture Expressed in Agricultural Landscapes. Perspectives from the Eucaland Project.Rome:Palombi Editori,2010, pp. 124-145.
• Fairclough G. Complexity and contingency: classifying the influence of agriculture on European landscape.. In: Pungetti, G., Kruse, A., ed. European Culture Expressed in Agricultural Landscapes - perspectives from the Eucaland Project. Roma: Palombi Editori, 2010, pp. 115-148.
• Fairclough G. Landscape and Spatial Planning in England: past achievements, present questions, future goals. In: Gawroński, K., Herznik, J., ed. Planowanie i zagospodarowanie przestrzenne jako instrument kształtowania krajobrazów kulturowych [Spatial planning and development as an instrument for shaping cultural landscapes]. Krakov, Poland: Branta, 2010, pp. 125-140.
• Fairclough G. New Heritage Frontiers. In: Council of Europe, ed. Heritage and Beyond. Strasbourg, France: Council of Europe, 2009, pp. 29-41.
• Fairclough G, Møller PG. Character and Change: heritage management and the future European landscape. In: Orejas, A., Mattingley, D., Clavel-Lévêque, M., ed. From Present to Past Through Landscape. Madrid, Spain: CSIC, 2009, pp. 197-220.
• Fairclough GJ, Møller PG. Landscape Heritage and National Cultures – Comparing national approaches to protecting and managing Europe’s landscape. In: Fairclough, G.J., Møller, P.G., ed. Landscape as Heritage - The Management and Protection of Landscape in Europe. University of Berne: Geographica Bernensia, 2008, pp. 13-32.
• Fairclough G. n.d. Conservation and the British. In: Schofield, J., ed. Defining Moments: Dramatic Archaeologies of the Twentieth-Century. Oxford, UK: British Archaeological Reports, 2009, pp. 157-164.
• Fairclough G. Rus infra urbe: Pre-industrial landscape below modern cities. In: Compatangelo-Soussignan, R., Bertrand, J.-R., Chapman, J., Laffont, P.-Y., ed. Marqueurs des Paysages et Systèmes socio-économiques (Actes du Colloque COST de Le Mans). Rennes, France: Presses Universitaire de Rennes, 2008, pp. 229-241.
• Turner SC, Fairclough GJ. Common Culture: The Archaeology of Landscape Character in Europe. In: Hicks, D; McAtackney, L; Fairclough, GJ, ed. Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007, pp. 120-145.
• Hicks D, McAtackney L, Fairclough G, ed. Envisioning Landscape: Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press, 2007.
• Fairclough G. L’histoire et le temps: gérer paysage et ses perceptions (History, Time and Change: managing landscape and perception). In: Berlan-Darque, M; Terrasson, D; Luginbuhl, Y, ed. Paysage: de la connaissance à l’action (Landscapes: from knowledge to action). Paris: Editions Quae, 2007, pp. 149-162.
• Fairclough G. The Cold War in context: archaeological explorations of private and public complexities. In: Schofield, J; Cocroft, W, ed. A Fearsome Heritage: Diverse Legacies of the Cold War. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007, pp. 19-32.
• Fairclough G. The contemporary and future landscape: change & creation in the later 20th century. In: McAtackney, L; Palus, M; Piccini, A, ed. Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory, Papers from the 2003 and 2004 CHAT conferences. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007, pp. 83-88.
• Fairclough G, Schofield J, Harrison R, Jameson J, ed. The Heritage Reader. London: Routledge, 2007.
• Fairclough GJ. A New Landscape for Cultural Heritage Management: Characterisation as a Management Tool. In: Lozny, Ludomir R, ed. Landscapes Under Pressure: Theory and Practice of Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation. New York: Springer, 2006, pp. 55-74.
• Fairclough GJ. History and time: managing landscape and perceptions. In: From Knowledge of Landscapes to Landscaping Action.2004,Bordeaux, France
• Clark J, Darlington J, Fairclough GJ. Using Historic Landscape Characterisation. Preston, UK: Lancashire County Council/English Heritage, 2004.
• Fairclough GJ. 'The long chain': archaeology, historical landscape characterization and time depth in the landscape. In: Palang, H., Fry, G, ed. Landscape Interfaces: Cultural Heritage in Changing Landscapes. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003, pp.295-317.