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
• Agricultural Scientist (intern) in agricultural industries in Greece and The Netherlands

Memberships

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

Research Interests

• Rural mobilities, migration and counter-urbanisation
• Spatial planning and urban-rural relationships
• Rural housing, village and small town renewal
• Area-based rural policies and rural governance

Current Work

• Rural housing and gentrification
• Attitudes to planning policy and the planning profession
• Small town renewal

Future Research

• Rural development and the arts
• Comparative rural planning

Esteem Indicators

• Reviewer: Town Planning Review, European Planning Studies, Journal of Rural Studies, Scottish Geographical Journal, Planning Theory & Practice.
• National Expert (Ireland) for a policy report (‘An investigation of occupancy conditions in rural housing’, Editors: Satsangi, M. and Crawford, J.), commissioned by the Scottish Government, 2009.
• My work was cited in an international policy report ('Urban sprawl in Europe - the ignored challenge'), published by the European Environmental Agency, 2006.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 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.
• 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.
• 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.