Clare Hickman

Clare is Reader in Environmental and Medical History at Newcastle University. She is the author of The Doctor’s Garden: Medicine, Science, and Horticulture in Britain (Yale University Press, 2021) and Therapeutic Landscapes: A History of Hospital Gardens Since 1800 (Manchester University Press, 2023). She has also run projects on inclusive approaches to historic landscape interpretation (Unlocking Landscapes) and is a Co-Investigator on the AHRC funded project, ‘In All Our Footsteps: Tracking, Mapping and Experiencing Rights of Way in Post-War Britain’ (2021-2024), and ‘Connected Treescapes’ (2021-2024) funded by NERC. Clare is also a Trustee of The Gardens Trust.