Newcastle University

Qualifications

• PhD in Spatial Planning, University College Dublin
• MSc in Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin
• MAgrSc in Agricultural Economics & Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens

Previous Positions

• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, UCD School of Applied Social Science
• Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, UCD School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy
• Research Assistant, Urban Institute Ireland

Memberships

• European Society for Rural Sociology
• US Rural Sociological Society
• Irish Planning Institute
• Geotechnical Chamber of Greece

Research Interests

• Rural mobilities, migration and counterurbanisation
• Spatial planning and governance
• Rural housing, planning and architectural studies
• International comparative research

Current Work

• 'Going rural: Counterurbanisation in times of crisis', funded by the Latsis Public Benefit Foundation
• 'Architecture, planning and rurality: Regulation and creativity', funded by AFRD, Newcastle University
• 'Northumberland exchanges: Creative community engagement in rural Northumberland', funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and led by Prof Eric Cross
• 'Rural resilience: an exploration of terms', funded by the Newcastle Institute for Social Renewal

Future Research

• Rural development and arts practice
• Comparative rural planning
• Anglophone hegemony, language and social sciences

Esteem Indicators

• Reviewer: Journal of Rural Studies, Geoforum, Town Planning Review, European Planning Studies,  Scottish Geographical Journal, Planning Theory & Practice, Landscape Research, New Political Economy, Social & Cultural Geography, Review of Political Economy, Journal of Environmental Accounting & Management, Czech Science Foundation.
• Invited speaker, as part of the public seminar series 'Boom to Bust: Tackling Ireland's Environment', organised by University College Dublin and the Earth Institute, Ireland, 2012.
• National Expert (Ireland) for a policy report on occupancy conditions in rural housing, commissioned by the Scottish Government, 2009.

Teaching Roles

I am the Degree Programme Director (DPD) of the MSc in Food and Rural Development Research

Undergraduate Teaching

• ACE3017 Rural Planning, Politics and Society (Module Leader)
• ACE2009 Qualitative Techniques (Module Leader)
• ACE1007 Introduction to Rural Studies (Contributor)
• ACE1036 Understanding Rural Enterprises (Contributor)
• ACE3093 Special Study (Contributor)

Postgraduate Teaching

• ACE8095 Dissertation (Module Leader)
• ACE8050 The Contemporary Countryside (Contributor)

• Gkartzios M, Scott M. Placing housing in rural development: Exogenous, endogenous and neo-endogenous approaches. Sociologia Ruralis 2014. In Press.
• Gkartzios M. 'Leaving Athens': narratives of counterurbanisation in times of crisis. Journal of Rural Studies 2013, 32, 158-167.
• Norris M, Gkartzios M, Coates D. Property-led urban, town and rural regeneration in Ireland: positive and perverse outcomes in different spatial and socio-economic contexts. European Planning Studies 2013, Epub ahead of print.
• Gkartzios M. Queerying Planning: Challenging Heteronormative Assumptions and Reframing Planning Practice [book review]. Social & Cultural Geography 2013, (epub ahead of print).
• Gkartzios M, Scott M. Attitudes to housing and planning policy in rural localities: Disparities between long-term and mobile rural populations in Ireland. Land Use Policy 2013, 31, 347-357.
• Gkartzios M, Scott M. Gentrifying the rural? Planning and market processes in rural Ireland. International Planning Studies 2012, 17(3), 253-276.
• Brereton F, Clinch P, Gkartzios M, Scott M. Counterurbanisation and subjective well-being. In: Ganser, R., Piro, R, ed. Parallel Patterns of Shrinking Cities and Urban Growth: Spatial Planning for Sustainable Development of City Regions and Rural Areas. Farnham: Ashgate, 2012, pp.185-206.
• Gkartzios M, Norris M. ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’: Governing property-led rural regeneration in Ireland. Land Use Policy 2011, 28(3), 486-494.
• Norris M, Gkartzios M. Twenty years of property-led urban regeneration in Ireland: outputs, impacts, implications. Public Money and Management 2011, 31(4), 257-264.
• Bullock C, Scott M, Gkartzios M. Rural residential preferences for house design and location: insights from a discrete choice experiment applied to Ireland. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2011, 54(5), 685-706.
• Gkartzios M. The Rural Housing Question. Communities and Planning in Britain's Countrysides [book review]. Planning Theory & Practice 2011, 12(2), 320-322.
• Gkartzios M, Scott M. Residential Mobilities and House Building in Rural Ireland: Evidence from Three Case Studies. Sociologia Ruralis 2010, 50(1), 64-84.
• Gkartzios M, Scott M. ‘Countering counter-urbanisation’: spatial planning challenges in a dispersed city region, the Greater Dublin Area. Town Planning Review 2010, 81(1), 23-52.
• Gkartzios M, Scott M. Planning for rural housing in the Republic of Ireland: from national spatial strategies to development plans. European Planning Studies 2009, 17(12), 1751-1780.
• Gkartzios M, Redmond D. Occupancy conditions in rural housing: Republic of Ireland [Appendix Two: Expert reviews of comparator countries' experiences]. Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Government Social Research, 2009. An Investigation of Occupancy Conditions in Rural Housing ISBN: 9780755973736.
• Norris M, Gkartzios M, Coates D. ‘Section 23’ tax incentives: a longitudinal review of outputs, impacts and value for money. Irish Tax Review 2009, (October), 67-72.
• Brereton F, Brophy V, Bullock C, Clinch P, Foley K, Gilbert D, Gkartzios M, Kinsella J, Norris M, O'Connor D, O'Daly G, Redmond D, Russell P, Scott M, Winston N. Sustainable Rural Development-Managing Housing in the Countryside (Eds: Scott M, Brereton, F). Wexford, Ireland: Environmental Protection Agency, 2010.
• Scott M, Moore N, Redmond D, Gkartzios M. Housing growth, land delivery and sustainable urban management. In: Yarwood, J, ed. The Dublin-Belfast corridor: Ireland’s mega-city region?. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.163-192.
• Gkartzios M, Scott M. Urban-generated rural housing and evidence of counterurbanisation in the Dublin city-region. In: Moore, N; Scott, M, ed. Renewing urban communities: Environment, citizenship and sustainability in Ireland. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp.132-156.