Ms K Keaveney
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Background
Karen is a Lecturer in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering. She was appointed to the position in September 2005. Karen is a graduate of the Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway and the Department of Regional and Urban Planning (now School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy), University College Dublin. Following these studies she carried out research on rural housing in Ireland in the Department of Geography and the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis (NIRSA) in NUI, Maynooth where she continues to be an External Associate.
Teaching
110EVP821 Evaluation of Built Form (MSc Spatial Regeneration)
110EVP827 Evolution of Built Form (MSc Urban and Rural Design)
110EVP832 GIS and Spatial Planning (MSc Environmental Planning)
210EVP112 Space, Places, Plans (BSc Environmental Planning – Level 1)
Administration
School Erasmus Programme Director
Member of School Internationalisation Committee with responsibility for Europe
Member of School Ethics Committee
Planning Education Website Coordinator
Research interests
Spatial analysis of rural change in Ireland
Examination of rural housing processes
Use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in planning
Research projects
Teagasc Walsh Fellowship, PhD Project ‘Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish Countryside’, NUI Maynooth:
This research examines the diversity of historical and recent rural settlement patterns across regional landscapes; comprehensively reviews recent trends in rural housing in Ireland, with particular analyses of the location, supply and demand, and decision-making processes which apply to housing development in the countryside; and analyses the manner in which the Irish rural landscape is perceived by the community at large, by local rural inhabitants and by planning authorities.
Strategic Planning Area Network (SPAN) – Research Team Member:
Project funded under the EU INTERREG 111B North West Europe programme which is devoted to giving support to transnational co-operation in the field of spatial development. The Queen’s project seeks to build on the guiding principles of polycentricity and rural-urban partnership as laid down by the European Spatial Development Perspective and looks at new ways to stimulate indigenous development and balanced growth including the exploration of new ways of extending community participation in planning processes, testing more effective models of multi-level governance, and developing new approaches to physical planning policy in rural areas.
Promising Researchers Fund, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (£4000):
Society and Planning in the Urban Fringe, April to May 2008, Institute for International Urban Development (IIUD) and International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Joint Centre for Housing Studies (JCHS), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Research publications
Walsh, J.A.; Keaveney, K. and Foley, R. (2007) Housing and Travel, in Walsh, J.A. (ed) People and Place: a census atlas of the Republic of Ireland. Maynooth, NIRSA NUI Maynooth
Corcoran, M., Keaveney, K. and Duffy, P.J. (2007) Transformations in Housing in Bartley, B. and Kitchin, R. (eds) Understanding Contemporary Ireland. Dublin, Pluto.
Murtagh, B., Murray, M. and Keaveney, K. (2007) Participatory citizenship through cultural dialogue, in Neill, W.J.V. and Schwedler, H.-U. (eds) Cultural Inclusion in the European City, Chapter 7, New York, Palgrave Macmillan.
Murtagh, B and Keaveney, K. (2006) Policy and conflict transformation in the ethnocratic city, in Space and Polity Vol 10(2)
