Landscape Architect, Duncan Goodwin, has been appointed to lead the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism department at the University of Greenwich. Duncan trained in Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Cornell University and the University of Greenwich and has been teaching at the school since 2009.

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The Landscape Architecture and Urbanism programmes (BA, MA, MLA, MSc and PhD) at the University of Greenwich are focused on speculative design informed by site-focused research. Programmes encourage design invention and experimentation from within one of the oldest schools of landscape in the UK, with notable lecturers such Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and renowned graduates such as Marti Franch Matllori. The University of Greenwich is the only institution in London offering Landscape Institute accredited programmes from BA to Masters.

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Duncan Goodwin is Portfolio Lead for Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich. He has been teaching at the University since 2009 and has been BA Hons Landscape Architecture Lead since 2022 and Technical Subject Lead since 2014.

Duncan graduated in Horticulture with Plantsmanship and Design and during his career, gained experience from the gamut of practical horticulture, working in commercial nurseries, operating a small organic farm and running his own design and build landscape contracting company. He joined the prestigious Sir Harold Hillier Gardens and Arboretum in 1995, as plant propagator and nursery manager and became Head Gardener in 2001, with responsibility for the management and development of plant collections and grounds.

Duncan was awarded a Cornell University Scholarship, in the United States, and gained a Master in Professional Practice at Cornell in Public Garden Management. He also received his MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Greenwich.

Within practice, he has worked as Project Landscape Architect and Project Director within multi-disciplinary consultancy practices managing Landscape Architecture teams on large infrastructure projects.

He is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (where he is also Branch Secretary of the London Branch) a member of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture, a Technical Member of the Arboricultural Association and a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He has also published a monograph, The Urban Tree (2013), a practical guide to establishing trees in urban environments.

He created the Landscape Architecture and Urbanism department materials library, which he continues to curate. The materials library was initially set up in 2010 to provide students with haptic interactions with common materials used in the construction of landscape projects. This was further extended through the acquisition of the Miller Druck stone sample library in 2020.