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Dr Menelaos Gkartzios

Reader in Planning & Rural Development

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6615
  • Personal Website:
  • Address: Room 3.07
    Agriculture Building
Background

I am a Reader in Planning & Rural Development. I am interested in urban-rural mobilities and social change; governance and housing policy; artistic practice and place-based development; and international comparative research - especially questions around language politics. My  is published in journals such as the Journal of Rural Studies, Sociologia Ruralis, Regional Studies, Geoforum, Land Use Policy, Population, Space & Place, World Development, etc. Citations to my papers can be found in  and . I have led or participated in research projects funded by the Economic & Social Research Council, the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the British Council, the Greek Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, the Irish Research Council, the Scottish Government, the Belmont Forum, the European Regional Development Fund and EU Horizon Research and Innovation Actions. I have held competitive visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo in Japan (on two occasions), and at Tongji University in China. I have also been awarded visiting fellowships at the National University of Ireland, Galway (Moore Institute) and at the University of Akureyri in Iceland.

I am Associate Editor of the academic journal . I currently sit on the Editorial Boards of , ,  and , and have also served on the Editorial Board of Sociologia Ruralis in the past (2016-2021). I currently serve on the of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), and I also co-lead a new . At 缅北禁地, I founded the #WeTheRural research cluster within the Institute for Creative Arts Practice about creative arts practice in and about the countryside. I also sit on the steering committee of the . As part of my engagement practice, I have led a collaborative Artist Residency programme with Berwick Visual Arts, I have served on the Board of Directors of the and on the steering committee of the Visual Arts in Rural Community project . I regularly contribute with articles in (in Greek). I am a Fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy. 

Area of Expertise

Spatial Planning, Rural Sociology, Art Studies

Career

  • Personal Reader, 缅北禁地, Centre for Rural Economy (2020-)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo (2021-2022)
  • Senior Lecturer, 缅北禁地, Centre for Rural Economy (2016-2020)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo (2017-2018)
  • Lecturer, 缅北禁地, Centre for Rural Economy (2010-2016)
  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, University College Dublin (2008-2010)

Qualifications

  • Certificate in Advanced Studies in Academic Practice, 缅北禁地 (2014)
  • PhD in Urban & Regional Planning, University College Dublin (2008)
  • MSc in Environmental Resource Management, University College Dublin (2004)
  • MAgrSc in Agricultural Economics & Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens (2002)

Professional Memberships

  • Association of European Schools of Planning
  • European Society for Rural Sociology
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy


Research

Research Interests

  • Artistic practice and place-based development
  • Mobilities and counterurbanisation
  • Rural planning and climate change
  • Housing, governance and rural development 
  • International comparative research, especially language politics 

Editorships

  • Special Issue in Habitat International with Keith Halfacree (Swansea University)
  •  with Mark Scott (University College Dublin) and Nick Gallent (University College London)
  • : Special Section in Sociologia Ruralis with Julie Crawshaw (Northumbria University) and Marie Mahon (National University of Ireland, Galway)

Research Projects

  • '' funded by the Belmont Forum / AHRC (2024-26), Co-Investigator.
  • '', funded by the Scottish Government (2022), Co-Investigator. 
  • '', funded by the ESRC (2022-2023), Co-Investigator.
  • , funded by ESRC and AHRC (UK-Japan Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Connections grant) (2019-2020), Principal Investigator.
  • , funded by Interreg, European Regional Development Fund (2016-2020), Co-Investigator.
  • , funded by the Institute for Sustainability (2016-2017), Principal Investigator.
  • '', funded by the British Council - Newton institutional Links (2015-2016), Principal Investigator. 
  • Researching Rural Housing: with an Artist-in-Residence, funded by the 缅北禁地 Institute for Social Renewal (2015-2016), Principal Investigator.
  • , funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (2013-2015), Co-Investigator.
  • , funded by the Latsis Public Benefit Foundation and 缅北禁地's Strategic Development Fund (2013-2015), Principal Investigator. 
  • CRE 'Artist-in-Residence' programme in collaboration with The Maltings (formerly Berwick Visual Arts), 缅北禁地 Institute for Creative Arts Practice, and funded by the Arts Council England (2014-present).

Esteem Indicators

  • Associate Editor of (2020-to date)
  • Editorial Board member: Progress in Planning (2019-to date); Journal of Rural Studies (2019- to date); Rural Society (2021-to date); Planning Practice & Research (2023-to date) Sociologia Ruralis (2016-2021)
  • Included in the Stanford/Elsevier's World's Top 2% Most-cited Scientists (2024)
  • Visiting Professor at Tongji University, China (2024)
  • Visiting Associate Professor (twice) at the University of Tokyo, Japan (2017; 2021)
  • Visiting Research Fellow: University of Akureyri, Iceland (2019); National University of Ireland, Galway (2019)
  • Expert review panel member of the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development (Formas) (2018-2022)
  • Advisor to the research project 'Socio-Economic Analysis of Counterurbanisation' awarded at Japan's Meiji University, funded by the JSPS (2019-2021)
  • Reviewer for over 30 academic journals (my public profile as a reviewer is available in )
  • Research proposal reviewer: Economic and Social Research Council; Arts and Humanities Research Council; Natural Environment Research Council; British Council; British Academy; Czech Science Foundation; Teagasc - Agriculture and Food Development Authority; NHS National Institute for Health Research; Research Council of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain); Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia; National Science Center, Poland.
  • External examiner: Istanbul Technical University (2024); Middle East Technical University (2023); University of Melbourne (2020); University of Toronto (2019); University of York (2018); Humboldt University of Berlin (2015)
  • Scientific committee member: XXIX European Society for Rural Sociology (), Rennes, France (2023); XV World Congress of Rural Sociology (IRSA), Cairns, Australia (2022); IV International Congress of Architecture and Planning (ICONARCH), Konya, Turkey (2020)
  • Organisation committee: Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, UK (2017); Swedish Academy of Agriculture & Forestry Bertebos conference, Falkenberg (2014)
  • Invited speaker/public lectures (selection): Exeter University (2024); Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey (2024); Istanbul Technical University, Turkey (2023); Tongji University, China (2023); Jerwood Arts, London (2022); Akita International University, Japan (2021); Chiba University, Japan (2021); Srishti-Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, India (2021); New Europeans (civil rights movement) (2020); Hof Cultural Centre, Akureyri, Iceland (2019); University of Amsterdam (2019); Moore Institute - National University of Ireland, Galway (2019); International Symposium on the Global Countryside, Wales (2018); (2018); University of Tokyo (2017); University of Kyoto (2017); Kindai University, Japan (2017); German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) workshop on ‘Migration Processes and Rural Development in Peripheral Areas’ (2016); Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile (2016); James Hutton Institute (2015); University College Dublin Earth Institute (2012)
  • Book proposal reviewer: Routledge; Palgrave Macmillan; Rowman & Littlefield; Emerald 

Postdoctoral Research Mentor

  • Dr Ian Merrell, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: 'Rural Business Knowledge Exchange and Innovation: The Contribution of Rural Enterprise Hubs' (now at Scotland's Rural College)



Teaching

Teaching Roles

  • Degree Programme Director of the MSc in Food & Rural Development Research (2011-2020)
  • Peer Dialogue (Peer Observation of Teaching) leader (2012-2016)

Teaching

In 2021 I was shortlisted for the Pandemic Solidarity Teaching Education Award by the 缅北禁地 Student Union for my work in the ACE3017 module.

  • NES3105 Planning the Global Countryside (Module Leader)
  • NES2106 Qualitative Research Methods (Contributor)
  • ACE3093 Special Study (Contributor/Supervisor)
  • ACE3099 Agri-food Business Management and Marketing Dissertation (Contributor/Supervisor)

Postgraduate Research 

I am currently supervising the following postgraduate research students:

  • Jian Chen (China Scholarship Council funded, PhD)
  • Chisaki Fukushima (Sasakawa Award, PhD)
  • Wenqi Li (China Scholarship Council funded, occasional PhD study for 12 months)

PhD students completed: 

  • Dr Richard Austin (Northumberland National Park funded)
  • Dr Nur Bahiah Mohamed Haris (Malaysia Government funded)
  • Dr Fran Rowe (ESRC funded)
  • Dr Jorge Altamirano Flores (Ecuador Government funded)
  • Dr Heidi Saxby (ESRC funded)
  • Dr Rodolfo Sertori (São Paulo Research Foundation funded)
  • Dr Sabina Sallis (Research Excellence Academy funded, Creative Arts Practice)
  • Dr Carlos Bolomey Cordova (Chilean Government funded)



Publications

  • Articles

    • Scott M, Gallent M, Gkartzios M. . Town Planning Review 2026.
    • Ziafati Bafarasat A, Baker M, Cheshmehzangi A, Goodspeed R, Scott M, Sharifi A, Shirazi MR, Valler D, Van Assche K, Butt A, Gkartzios M, Román López E, Stangl P, Vitale Brovarone E, Pull E, Van den Broeck P, Córdoba Hernández R, Akbari P, Cotella G, Curry K, Davern M, Velibeyoglu K, Nordström P, Cruickshank J, Paidakaki A, Assaf C, Katsigianni X. . Progress in Planning 2025, 200, 100996.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M, Gallent N. . disP - The Planning Review 2025, 61(3), 95-97.
    • Scott M, Kelleher L, Fox-Rogers L, Gkartzios M. . Journal of Rural Studies 2025, 120, 103868.
    • Niknam Khajepash A, Gkartzios M. . International Planning Studies 2024, 29(2), 105-123.
    • Scott M, Gkartzios M, Halfacree K. . Habitat International 2024, 143, 102970.
    • Dilley L, Gkartzios M, Kudo S, Odagiri T. . Habitat International 2024, 143, 102967.
    • Lang W, Gkartzios M, Yan J, Chen T, Tan S. . Journal of Rural Studies 2024, 112, 103455.
    • Li W, Zhang L, Lee I, Gkartzios M. . Sustainability 2023, 15(14), 10781.
    • Tiwasing O, Clark B, Gkartzios M. . Heliyon 2022, 8(10), e10745.
    • Dilley L, Gkartzios M, Odagiri T. . Habitat International 2022, 125, 102595.
    • Gkartzios M, Gallent N, Scott M. . Habitat International 2022, 127, 102625.
    • Merrell I, Rowe F, Cowie P, Gkartzios M. . Local Economy 2021, 36(7-8), 589–605.
    • Gkartzios M, Toishi N, Woods M. . Journal of Rural Studies 2020, 78, 325-332.
    • Sarale A, Yagi H, Gkartzios M, Ogawa K. . Journal of Asian Rural Studies 2020, 4(1), 23-36.
    • Apostolopoulos N, Newbery R, Gkartzios M. . Journal of Rural Studies 2019, 70, 215-224.
    • Gkartzios M, Crawshaw J. . Sociologia Ruralis 2019, 59(4), 589-611.
    • Lowe P, Phillipson J, Proctor A, Gkartzios M. . World Development 2019, 116, 28-37.
    • Gkartzios M, Remoundou K. . Geoforum 2018, 93, 1-10.
    • Saxby H, Gkartzios M, Scott K. . Sociologia Ruralis 2018, 58(2), 392-411.
    • Scott M, Murphy E, Gkartzios M. . Sociologia Ruralis 2017, 57(S1), 598-621.
    • Gkartzios M, Remoundou K, Garrod G. . Journal of Rural Studies 2017, 55, 22–32.
    • Crawshaw J, Gkartzios M. . Journal of Rural Studies 2016, 43, 134-144.
    • Remoundou K, Gkartzios M, Garrod G. . Regional Studies 2016, 50(10), 1663-1674.
    • Gkartzios M, Shucksmith M. . Town Planning Review 2015, 86(1), 53-72.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott K. . Population, Space and Place 2015, 21(8), 843-855.
    • Scott M, Gkartzios M. . Housing and Society 2014, 41(2), 247–276.
    • Norris M, Gkartzios M, Coates D. . European Planning Studies 2014, 22(9), 1841-1861.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . Sociologia Ruralis 2014, 54(3), 241-265.
    • Donovan K, Gkartzios M. . Land Use Policy 2014, 41, 334-343.
    • Gkartzios M. . Journal of Rural Studies 2013, 32, 158-167.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . Land Use Policy 2013, 31, 347-357.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . International Planning Studies 2012, 17(3), 253-276.
    • Norris M, Gkartzios M. . Public Money and Management 2011, 31(4), 257-264.
    • Bullock C, Scott M, Gkartzios M. . Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2011, 54(5), 685-706.
    • Gkartzios M, Norris M. . Land Use Policy 2011, 28(3), 486-494.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . Sociologia Ruralis 2010, 50(1), 64-84.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . Town Planning Review 2010, 81(1), 23-52.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . European Planning Studies 2009, 17(12), 1751-1780.
    • Norris M, Gkartzios M, Coates D. . Irish Tax Review 2009, (October), 67-72.

  • Authored Books

    • Cullingworth B, Davoudi S, Webb D, Vigar G, Pendlebury J, Townshend T, Gkartzios M, Hart T, Nadin V. . London: Routledge, 2024.
    • Gkartzios M, Gallent N, Scott M. . Bristol: Policy Press, 2022.

  • Book Chapters

    • Gallent N, Scott M, Gkartzios M, Purves A. . In: Gallent, N; Gkartzios, M; Scott, M; Purves, A, ed. Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Land Commoning to Community Wealth Building. London: UCL Press, 2025, pp.435-454.
    • Gallent N, Purves A, Gkartzios M, Scott M. . In: Gallent, N; Gkartzios, M; Scott, M; Purves, A, ed. Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Land Commoning to Community Wealth Building. London: UCL Press, 2025, pp.1-22.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Nijkamp, P; Kourtit, K; Haynes, K; Elburz, Z, ed. Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, pp.599-600.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Nijkamp, P; K. Kourtit, K; Haynes, K; Elburz, Z, ed. Thematic Encyclopedia of Regional Science. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, pp.105-106.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Gallent, N; Gkartzios, M; Scott, M; Purves, A, ed. Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Land Commoning to Community Wealth Building. London: UCL Press, 2025, pp.63-82.
    • Scott M, Gkartzios M, Gallent N. . In: Cotella G; Janin Rivolin U, ed. Handbook of Territorial Governance. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025, pp.236-253.
    • Purves A, Gallent N, Gkartzios M, Scott M. . In: Gallent, N; Gkartzios, M; Scott, M; Purves, A, ed. Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Land Commoning to Community Wealth Building. London: UCL Press, 2025, pp.25-41.
    • Purves A, Gallent N, Scott M, Gkartzios M. . In: Gallent, N; Gkartzios, M; Scott, M; Purves, A, ed. Postcapitalist Countrysides: From Land Commoning to Community Wealth Building. London: UCL Press, 2025, pp.417-434.
    • Sutherland LA, Bjarnason T, Gkartzios M, Peeren E. . In: E. Peeren, E; Valdés-Olmos, T, ed. Rural Imaginations for a Globalized World. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025, pp.107-126.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Dombroski K; Goodwin M; Qian J; Williams A; Cloke P, ed. Introducing Human Geographies. London: Routledge, 2024, pp.237-251.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Robins C; Udy O, ed. Anthology of Rural Life (A.R.L.). Antler Press, 2023.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Collier, M; Pailing, H, ed. ENTWINED: Rural. Land. Lives. Art. Manchester: Art Editions North (Cornerhouse Publications), 2021, pp.114-118.
    • Bjarnasson T, Thorarinsdottir B, Gkartzios M. . In: Pospěch P; Fuglestad EM; Figueiredo E, ed. Politics and Policies of Rural Authenticity. London: Routledge, 2021, pp.141-154.
    • Crawshaw J, Gkartzios M. . In: Cass N; Park G; Powell A, ed. Contemporary Art in Heritage Spaces. Routledge, 2020.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M, Gallent N. . In: Kobayashi, A, ed. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, 2020, pp.35-41.
    • Satsangi M, Gkartzios M. . In: Scott M; Gallent N; Gkartzios M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, pp.317-326.
    • Gkartzios M, Lowe P. . In: Scott, M; Gallent, N; Gkartzios, M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. London: Routledge and New York, 2019, pp.159-169.
    • Scott M, Gallent M, Gkartzios M. . In: Scott M; Gallent N; Gkartzios M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, pp.633-644.
    • Scott M, Gallent N, Gkartzios M. . In: Scott M; Gallent N; Gkartzios M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, pp.1-11.
    • Gallent N, Gkartzios M. . In: Scott M; Gallent N; Gkartzios M, ed. The Routledge Companion to Rural Planning. London and New York: Routledge, 2019, pp.17-27.
    • Crawshaw J, Gkartzios M. . In: Kenny, S.; McGrath, B.; Phillips, R, ed. The Routledge Handbook of Community Development: Perspectives from Around the Globe. New York: Routledge, 2018, pp.177-192.
    • Gkartzios M. . In: Kordel S; Weidinger T; Jelen I, ed. Processes of Immigration in Rural Europe: The Status Quo, Implications and Development Strategies. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp.2-23.
    • Gkartzios M, Ziebarth A. . In: Shucksmith, M; Brown, D, ed. International Handbook of Rural Studies. Routledge, 2016, pp.495-508.
    • Brereton F, Clinch P, Gkartzios M, Scott M. . 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.
    • Scott M, Moore N, Redmond D, Gkartzios M. . In: Yarwood, J, ed. The Dublin-Belfast corridor: Ireland’s mega-city region?. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, pp.163-192.
    • Gkartzios M, Scott M. . In: Moore, N; Scott, M, ed. Renewing urban communities: Environment, citizenship and sustainability in Ireland. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, pp.132-156.

  • Edited Books

    • Gallent N, Gkartzios M, Scott M, Purves A, ed. . London: UCL Press, 2025.
    • Scott M, Gallent N, Gkartzios M, ed. . London and New York: Routledge, 2019.

  • Editorials

    • Gkartzios M, Halfacree K. . Habitat International 2023, 140, 102906.
    • Gkartzios M, Crawshaw J, Mahon M. . Sociologia Ruralis 2019, 59(4), 585-588.

  • Reports

    • Atterton J, Dilley L, Fukushima C, Shinzato S, Gkartzios M, Lamont K. . Edinburgh: Scottish Government, 2022.
    • Gkartzios M, Garrod G, Remoundou K. 'Going rural': Counterurbanisation in times of crisis. Athens, Greece: Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, 2013.
    • Phillipson J, Shucksmith M, Turner R, Garrod G, Lowe P, Harvey D, Talbot H, Scott K, Carroll T, Gkartzios M, Hubbard C, Ruto E, Woods A. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, 缅北禁地, 2011.
    • 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. . Wexford, Ireland: Environmental Protection Agency, 2010.
    • Gkartzios M, Redmond D. . Edinburgh, UK: Scottish Government Social Research, 2009. An Investigation of Occupancy Conditions in Rural Housing ISBN: 9780755973736.

  • Reviews

    • Gkartzios M. . Social & Cultural Geography 2014, 15(3), 352-354.
    • Gkartzios M. . Planning Theory & Practice 2011, 12(2), 320-322.