LFA Fellowship Program

LFA Ewings Scholarship

Landscape Performance
Case Studies

Community Project Funding

Key Opportunities

  • $10,000 Fellowship opportunities available annually

  • Scholarships for professional landscape architecture studies

  • Landscape Performance Case Study projects for academics and practitioners

  • Pro bono partnerships on significant research projects

In addition to financial support, LFA offers

  • Professional mentorship from Australia's leading experts

  • Access to networks spanning academia, government, and industry

Funding a vision for a healthy urban future

LFA Fellowship Program

Empowering the next generation of landscape leaders.

    • Award amount: $10,000 per Fellowship

    • Duration: 12 months

    • Eligible recipients: Early- to mid-career professionals

    • Number available: 1-3 fellowships annually (depending on funding availability)

    • Landscape architecture and urban design

    • Environmental science and urban ecology

    • Engineering (civil, environmental, climate adaptation)

    • Urban planning and policy

    • Social sciences (community health, wellbeing, resilience in relation to nature)

    • Innovative proposals in related fields

    • Research projects generating actionable knowledge

    • Professional development and leadership opportunities

    • Travel for learning, conferences, or collaboration

    • Special projects aligned with LFA's mission

    • Knowledge sharing through webinars, publications, and resources

    • Contributions to growing body of knowledge about healthy and sustainable urban landscapes

    • Freely available resources shared via LFA website

    • Webinar presentations of findings

    • Written reports and publications

    • Advocacy and potential policy influence

  • Applications are invited each year together with Guidelines and Application forms.

LFA Fellowship Winners

  • Background: Director at OFFICE (not-for-profit consultancy), landscape architect

    Project: Advancing Melbourne Biodiversity Network with public-facing 'digital twin'

    Goal: Map and track impact of green interventions in real-time

    Focus: Equity, ecology, and evidence-based urban landscape planning and development

  • Background: Associate landscape architect at Hassell Sydney, part-time Associate Lecturer, UNSW Landscape Architecture

    Project:  Aerial Analytics

    Goal: "Transform landscape architectural practice and enable active participation in creating regenerative landscapes through evidence-based design"

    Impact: Translate research into educational materials promoting practical prototyping and experimentation

  • Background: Environmental planner, designer, and lecturer in Landscape Architecture,University of Western Australia

    Project: Film-based advocacy for environmental storytelling and care

    Collaborators: WA producer/filmmaker Caeley Wesson, Noongar Elder Dr Noel Nannup, Professor Kingsley Dixon, WA Forest Alliance convener Jess Beckerling

    Goal: "Bringing advocacy to the medium of film" to translate diverse perspectives and "convey an ethos of care and passion to a wide audience"

  • Background:

    Project: Investigating true value of 'natural capital' in economic valuation

    Outcome: Travel to Climate Week/New York City as delegate,

    Impact: Advancing methods to prove nature's economic value for policy decisions

LFA Ewings Scholarship

This $20k Scholarship is awarded annually to provide financial support to highly motivated landscape architecture students to complete their studies

The LFA Michael Ewings Scholarship provides financial support to a landscape architecture student who demonstrates passion, purpose, and commitment to designing healthy, engaging and resilient urban landscapes that restore connections between people and nature. The Scholarship is awarded each year and funded by a generous donation of A$1 million from Michael Ewings FAILA MAIH, a pioneering figure in Australian landscape architecture.

  • The LFA Ewings Scholarship is a perpetual endowment supporting highly motivated students and early-career graduates in landscape architecture. It seeks to:Foster vision, professional skill, motivation, and persistence.

    • Assist recipients to complete formal study or undertake a targeted development program.

    • Develop leaders who contribute to the sustainable planning, design, and management of urban landscapes in Australia.

    • Australian citizens or permanent residents; and

    • Undergraduate in an AILA-accredited professional landscape architecture degree in Australia

    • Postgraduate student in an AILA-accredited program

    • Early-career graduate

    • Early-career practitioner

Landscape Performance Case Studies Program

Documenting and assessing the measurable benefits of built landscape design projects

    • Partnership: Collaboration with US-based Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)

    • Launch: April 2023

    • Focus: Assessing landscape performance of constructed Australian projects

    • Goal: Generate new knowledge to Inform design decision making on future projects

    • Completed landscape projects (min 2 years) with measurable outcomes

    • Urban design interventions with environmental, social, cultural and economic benefits

    • Green infrastructure with quantifiable performance data

    • New or upgraded projects with before/after metrics

    • 2024: Two teams selected for inaugural round of Landscape Performance Case Studies

    • Projects focused on proving measurable benefits of urban landscapes

    • Outcomes contribute to national and international knowledge base

  • 2024 –

Community Project Funding

Strengthening Capacity of Communities & Other Organisations. Supporting local restoration and conservation projects

Program overview:

  • Award : Support varies by project scope

  • Target partners: Community groups, local organizations, local governments, schools, other not-for-profits

  • Support type: Assist preparation of funding applications plus professional advisory services

  • Focus: Projects that restore and create healthy and resilient urban landscapes

Successful Projects

Uralla Racecourse Lagoon Restoration Project

  • Funding: Assisted Uralla Council to obtain $150,000  grant from NSW Environmental Trust

  • Partnership: ZNET community volunteers, council officers, and LFA

  • Outcome: Restoration of nationally significant New England Grassy Woodland vegetation community  by establishing 7,500 native plants

  • Impact: Reconnecting people with nature, boosting biodiversity in Northern Tablelands

'Keeping Uralla Cool' Project

  • Status: LFA's first completed community-based project working with ZNET community group and funding from NAB community grant

  • Focus: Building resilience and wellbeing  through strategic landscape interventions

  • Outcome: Demonstrable cooling effects through nature-based solutions and program of actions to address Issue

B&B Highway School Pollinator Gardens

  • Partnership: Supporting ‘PlantingSeeds’ not-for-profit organization by arranging for volunteer landscape students to assist with establishing pollinator gardens

  • Focus: Innovative pollinator  education program and  of pollinator gardens with students

  • Impact: Teaching students about critical importance of pollinators

Schoolyard Greenprint: High School Outdoor Spaces Research

  • Partnership: Health Research Institute, University of Canberra; two-year $1.6M study funded by HortInnovations Futures

  • Chief Investigator: Dr Gweneth Leigh, RLA

  • LFA Role: Cashless partner providing expert advice on Project Working Group

  • Focus: How schoolyard design impacts adolescent wellbeing

  • Goal: Identify design principles that improves student wellbeing through engagement with nature In school outdoor spaces

Support Beyond Funding

Professional mentorship

  • Access to LFA directors' expertise and networks

  • Guidance from Australia's leading landscape professionals

  • Connection to academic and industry leader

Network access

  • Professional organizations (AILA, Engineers Australia)

  • Academic institutions and research centres

  • Government advisory panels and policy networks

  • International collaborations and conferences

Advocacy support

  • Policy submission collaboration

  • Government stakeholder introductions

  • Media and communication support

  • Professional recognition and awards

Knowledge Platform

  • Publication opportunities through LFA communications

  • Webinar presentation platforms

  • Resource sharing via LFA website

  • Conference presentation support

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