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Brendan Murtagh BA (Hons), MSc, PhD, MRTPI, MIPI, ILTM

Background

Dr. Murtagh is a Chartered Town Planner and previously worked in community planning and research in a number of private consultancies before joining the Housing Executive as a Senior Economist in 1989.  He was appointed as a Lecture in Housing at the University of Ulster in 1994 before joining The Queen’s University of Belfast as a Reader in 2000.

 

Teaching

 

Dr Murtaghs teaching includes research methods, community planning, introduction to spatial planning and planning practice at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels.

 

Administration

 

Dr Murtagh is module coordinator of 4 courses on the postgraduate and undergraduate courses is responsible for the ISEP website and sits on the Universities Research Ethics Committee.  He also sits on the EU LEADER + Programme Monitoring Committee for Northern Ireland.

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Neill W., Fitzsimmons, D. and Murtagh B. (1995) Reimaging the Pariah City:  Urban Development in Belfast and Detroit, Aldershot, Avebury.

 

Murtagh, B. (2002) The Politics of Territory, London, Palgrave.

 

Murray, M. and Murtagh, B. (2004) Equity, Diversity and Interdependence: Reconnecting People Through Authentic Dialogue, Aldershot, Ashgate.

 

McEldowney, M., Murray, M., Murtagh, B. and Sterrett, K. (eds) (2005) Planning in Ireland and Beyond: Multi-disciplinary Essays in Honour of John V Greer, Belfast, The Queens University of Belfast.

 

Shirlow, P. and Murtagh, B. (2006) Belfast: Segregation, Violence and the City, London, Pluto Press and University of Michigan Press.

 

Peer reviewed journal articles

 

Murtagh, B. (1998) Planning for anywhere: housing policy in Northern Ireland, Housing Studies, Vol.13, No.6, pp.833-839.

 

Murtagh, B. (1998) Evaluating the community impacts of urban policy, Planning Practice and Research, Vol.13, No.2, pp.129-138.

 

Murtagh, B. (1998) Community, conflict and rural planning in Northern Ireland, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol.4, No.3, pp.221-231.

 

Murtagh, B. (1999) Listening to communities: locality research and planning, Urban Studies, Vol.36, No.7, pp.1181-1193.

 

Murtagh, B. (1999) Urban segregation and community initiatives in Northern Ireland, Community Development Journal, Vol.34, No.3. pp.219-226.

 

Adair, A., Berry, J., McGreal, S., Murtagh, B. and Paris, C. (2000) The local housing system in Craigavon, N. Ireland: ethno-religious residential segregation, socio-tenurial polarisation and sub-markets, Urban Studies, Vol.37, No.7, pp.1079-1092.

 

Murtagh, B. (2001) Integrated social housing in Nnrthern Ireland, Housing Studies, Vol.16, No.6, pp.771-789

 

Murtagh, B. (2001) The URBAN Community Initiative in Northern Ireland, Policy and Politics, Vo.29, No.4, pp.431-46.

 

Murtagh, B. (2001) City Visioning and the turn to community, Planning Practice and Research, Vol.16, No.1, pp.9-19.

 

Murtagh, B. (2001) The politics and practice of urban policy evaluation, Community Development Journal, Vol.36, No.3, pp.223-233.

 

Murtagh, B. (2001) Partnerships and area regeneration policy in Northern Ireland, Local Economy, Vol.16, No.1, pp.50-62.

 

Murtagh, B. and McKay, S. (2003) Evaluating the social effects of the EU URBAN Community Initiative Programme, European Planning Studies, Vol.11, No.2, pp.193-212.

 

Murtagh, B. and Murray, M. (2003) Neighbourhood renewal in small town Northern Ireland, Administration, Vol.50, No.4, pp.68-80.

 

Murray, M. and Murtagh, B. (2003) Exploring equity, diversity and interdependence through dialogue and understanding in rural in Northern Ireland, Community Development Journal, Vol.38, No.4, pp.287-297.

 

Murtagh, B (2004) Collaboration, equality and land use planning, Planning Theory and Practice, Vol.5, No.4, pp.453-469.

 

Shirlow, P. and Murtagh, B. (2004) Capacity-building, representation and intra-community conflict, Urban Studies, Vol.41, No.1, pp.57-70.

 

Murtagh, B, and Sterrett, K. (2006) Instrumental and interpretative methods in evaluating urban programmes, Urban Policy and Research, Vol.24, No.1. forthcoming.

 

Murtagh, B. and Keaveney, K. (2006) Policy and the future of the ethnocratic city, Space and Polity, forthcoming.

 

Sterrett, K., Murtagh, B. and Millar, G. (2006) The social turn and Urban Development Corporations, Planning Practice and Research, forthcoming.

 

Shirlow, P. and Murtagh, B (forthcoming) Spatial segregation and labour market processes in Belfast, Policy and Politics, accepted for publication.

 

Chapters in books

 

Murtagh, B. (2000) Landuse planning and segregated space: the case of Belfast’s peacelines, in F. Boal (ed) Ethnicity and Housing: Accommodating Differences, Aldershot, Avebury, pp.190-197.

 

Murtagh, B. (2002) Housing and ethnicity in Northern Ireland, in C. Paris (ed) Housing in Northern Ireland, Coventry, CIOH, pp.79-92.

 

Murtagh, B. (2003) Territoriality, research and policy-making in Northern Ireland, in O. Hargie and D. Dickson (eds) Researching the Troubles, Edinburgh, Viking Press, pp.209-225.

 

Murtagh, B. (2003) Dealing with the consequences of a divided society in troubled communities, in M. Murray and J. Greer (eds) Rural Planning and Development in Northern Ireland, Dublin, IPA, pp.168-190.

 

Murtagh, B. (2005) Identity, place and conflict in rural Northern Ireland, in M. McEldowney, M. Murray, B. Murtagh and K. Sterrett (eds) Planning in Ireland and Beyond: Multi-disciplinary Essays in Honour of John V Greer, Belfast, The Queen’s University of Belfast.

 

Murtagh, B. (2005) Social and ethnic segregation and the urban agenda, in N. Moore and M.  Scott (eds) Renewing Urban Communities: Environment, Citizenship and Sustainability in Ireland, Aldershot, Ashgate, pp.179-196.

 

Murray, M. and Murtagh, B. (2006) Strategic spatial planning in Northern Ireland, in B. Bartley and R. Kitchen (eds.) Understanding Contemporary Ireland, London, Pluto Press.

 

Murray, M. and Murtagh, B. (2006) A new driver for societal transformation: Equity Diversity and Interdependence, in S. Shuman (ed) Creating a Culture of Collaboration, New York, Josey Bass-Wiley.

 

Murtagh, B. and Kelly, B. (2006) Sub-regional planning in cross-border city-regions. The case of North-West Ireland, in J. Yarwood (ed.) The Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor: Ireland’s Meta-City City Region, Chapter 13, Aldershot, Ashgate.

 

Murtagh, B. Murray, M and Keaveney, K. (2006) Participatory citizenship through cultural dialogue, in W. J. V. Neill and H-U. Schwedler (eds.) Cultural Inclusion in the European City, Chapter 7, London, Routledge.

 

Murtagh, B. and Murray, M. (2006) Collaborative planning and Equity, Diversity and Interdependence, in B. Bartley and R. Kitchen (eds.) Understanding Contemporary Ireland, London, Pluto Press.