Background

Malachy McEldowney has a professional background in architecture as well as town planning and had worked in both fields in Northern Ireland, London and Leicester before joining the then Department of Town and Country Planning in 1981. Since then he has served as Advisor of Studies from 1989-92, as Head of Department (later School) from 1993-2001, and is currently Director of Education (Planning) in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE). His research interests are in urban design, conservation and planning practice, and he has more recently been involved in public participation and comparative European urban planning projects.

Teaching

2005 – present: Director of Education (Planning)

Main Teaching Duties:

110EVP820 Design and Regeneration

330EVP831 Urban /Rural Design Thesis/Work–based Study

105EVP304 Conservation of the Built Environment

205EVP305 Transportation

Administration

Internal Administrative Duties:

Director of Education, Centre for Spatial and Environmental Planning, SPACE

Director of Postgraduate Diploma/MSc. in Urban and Rural Design

Member of Academic Council

Member of University Honorary Titles Committee

Acting Member of University Professorial Promotions Panel

Member of Progress File Implementation Group

External Administrative Duties:

UK Representative, EU DG Research Cost Action Environment and Transport

Chairman, International Federation of Housing and Planning Urban Design Panel

Advisor to Royal Town Planning Institute Conservation of Built Environment Panel

Member, Northern Ireland Housing Council

External Examiner, University College Dublin School of Planning and Environmental Policy

External Examiner, Trinity College Dublin, School of Geography

Research Interests

Coming from an architectural and professional planning background my initial research interests lay in the fields of urban design, conservation and planning practice. More recently I have been involved in public participation in planning – particularly the innovative consultation exercises associated with the Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland and the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan. At an international level, I was a member of the EU Cost Action team on comparative European practice in relation to urban development in urban outskirts and I am now UK Representative on the EU Cost Action Management Committee for Environment and Transport. This European network is currently being used for comparative study on the Contested Cities Urban Universities research project.

Research Projects (since 2001)

2005: EU / LSP CU2 – Contested Cities and Urban Universities £ 250,000 (with Gaffikin, Sterrrett et al.)

2003: DRD – Implementing the Regional Development Strategy-North West consultation £12,000 (with Gaffikin, Sterrett et al.

2003: DRD - Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan – Consultation Programme 2 £25,000

with Gaffikin, Sterrett et al.)

2002: EPSRC – Sustainable Cities Programme: Edinburgh/Belfast Transportation

Study £40,000 (with Smyth et al.)

2002: DoE - Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan – Consultation Programme 1 £95,000

(with Gaffikin, Sterrett et al.)

Research Publications (since 2001)

McEldowney, M. and Galway, N. (2006) Place and Special Place –Innovations in Conservation Pactice in Northern Ireland. Planning Theory and Practice (Accepted for publication Oct. 2005) 21pp.

McEldowney, M., Ryley, T., Scott, M., Smyth, A. (2005) Integrating Land Use Planning and Transportation in Belfast: A New Policy Agenda for Sustainable Development, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol.48, No.4 pp.507-526

McEldowney, M. (2005) The Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015, Economic Outlook and Business Review, Vol. 20, No.1, pp. 31-33

McEldowney, M. (2004) Participation Issues in the Strategic Environmental Planning Process, Economic Outlook, Vol. 19, No. 4. pp.32-34

McEldowney, M., Scott, M., Smyth,A. (2003) Integrating land—use planning and transportation: policy formulation in the Belfast Metropolitan Area, Irish Geography, Vol.36(2), pp. 112-126

McEldowney, M., Sterrett,K. and Gaffikin, F.(2001) Shaping a Regional Vision: the Case of Northern Ireland, Local Economy Vol.16 (1) pp. 36-45

McEldowney, M. and Morrissey, M. (2001) Northern Ireland: Time to Change, Local Economy Vol. 16(1) pp. 26-35

McEldowney, M. (2000) (with Lloyd,M., Illsley,B., Tewdr-Jones,M.) Policy Forum: Planning and Devolved Government in the UK: Community Planning in Northern Ireland, Town Planning Review Vol.70 (4) pp.409-432

Books

McEldowney, M, Murray, M., Murtagh, B., Sterrett, K. (eds.) (2005) Planning in Ireland and Beyond School of Environmental Planning, Belfast, 335 pp.

McEldowney, M. (ed.) (2004) European Urban Outskirts: the Issue of Governance

European Communities Office for Official Publications (ECOOP), Brussels, 146pp

McEldowney, M., Gaffikin, F., Sterrett, K.,McDonagh,P. (2003) The Public Consultation on the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan 2015 DoE, Belfast, 139pp

Book Chapters

McEldowney, M. (2005) The Rural-Urban Interface: Outskirts of European Cities in McEldowney, M., Murray,M. et al. Planning in Ireland and Beyond SEP, Belfast, pp. 319-332.

McEldowney, M , O’Connell, D. (2005) Local Plans in the Belfast-Dublin Corridor in Yarwood, J. (Ed.) The Dublin –Belfast Corridor, Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 142-163.

McEldowney, M., Sterrett, K. and Gaffikin, F. (2004) Governance and Urban Outskirts in McEldowney, M. (ed.) European Urban Outskirts: the Issue of Governance ECOOP, Brussels, pp. 55-71

McEldowney, M. (2004) The Belfast Metropolitan Case Study in Dubois-Taine, G. (ed.) European Cities: Insights on Outskirts from Helsinki to Nicosia ECOOP, Brussels, pp. 62-75

McEldowney,M. (2004) Urban Outskirts and Governance: a Synopsis in McEldowney, M. (ed.) European Urban Outskirts: the Issue of Governance ECOOP, Brussels,

pp.3-13.

McEldowney, M., Sterrett, K., Gaffikin,F.,Morrissey, M. (2002) Shaping Our Future: Public Voices in Rydin, Y. and Thornley,A. (eds.) Planning in the UK -Agendas for the New Millenium Aldershot, Ashgate, pp. 119-130

McEldowney, M., Sterrett, K., Gaffikin, F. (2001) Architectural Ambivalence: the Built Environment and Cultural Identity in Belfast in Neill, W. and Schwedler, H.U. Urban Planning and Cultural Inclusion Basingstoke, Palgrave, pp.100-11

Conference Papers

McEldowney, M. International Federation of Housing and Planning Federation International Design Competition 1983-2005. Chairman’s Address to International Seminar University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, December 2005

McEldowney, M. (2005) Restructuring Urban Spaces to Preserve Local Identity. Chairman’s Report on International Student Competition to International Federation of Housing and Planning Congress Opening Ceremony, Rome, October 2005.

McEldowney, M. (2004) Selected Reflections on European Urban Outskirts Government of Cyprus International Planning Seminar, Nicosia, December 2004.

McEldowney, M. (2004) Ungovernable Outskirts? Chairman’s Introduction to Governance Session, European Cities: Insights on Outskirts EU Cost Action C10 Conference, Paris, June 2004.

McEldowney, M. (2004) Urban Outskirts and New Governance: Northern Ireland Case Studies, European Cities: Insights on Outskirts EU Cost Action C10 Conference, Paris, June 2004

McEldowney, M. (2003) Strategic Planning and Public Participation - the Northern Ireland Experience, Queen’s University Faculty of Engineering Inaugral Lecture, Belfast, Oct. 2003 .

McEldowney, M., Radovic, R., Torisu, N. (2003) The Local and International in your City of the Future, Jury Report on International Student Competition to International Federation of Housing and Planning Conference, Vienna, Oct. 2003.

McEldowney, M. (2003) Response of Local Plans to Strong Corridor Concept, Third Harvard Graduate Design School – Irish Universiities Dublin-Belfast Corridor Conference, Newry, Sept. 2003.

McEldowney, M., Gaffikin, F., Sterrett, K. (2002) The Northern Ireland Regional Development Strategy and the Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan, EU Cost Action C10 Seminar Florence, Oct. 2002.

McEldowney, M. (2001) Why Conservation ? Jewels in the Crown or Albatross? Conference on Re-inventing Northern Ireland’s Conservation Areas UAHS/ MHT

Newcastle, Nov. 2001.