[1] In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Joining the staff, Bowring rose to full professor in 2013.

[1][4] Bowring's 2015 book A Field Guide to Melancholy was reviewed in The Guardian.

[12] In 2024 Bowring was elected a Companion of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, for her "innovative career and scholarship in landscape architecture".

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