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<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Dr. Karen Keaveney is an Assistant Professor of Rural Development in the School of Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin. Previously, Karen was Lecturer in Rural Spatial Planning in Queen's University Belfast. She has held a number of visiting appointments internationally, including Visiting Research Fellow in the Joint Centre for Housing Studies, Harvard University, and Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Toronto. She is a qualified Urban and Regional Planner (UCD) with an undergraduate degree in Human and Physical Geography (NUI Galway) and PhD in Geography (Maynooth University). Karen's key areas of interest are rural planning, housing and development. She has expertise in local decision-making and governance, sustainable rural development, and socio-economic change in the countryside.

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Research interests: local decision-making and governance, rural power relations and socio-economic change in the countryside, policy responses to rural change, cross-border and inter-jurisdictional planning, local government reform, and planning on the island of Ireland

Contact: karen.keaveney@ucd.ie

Institutional Profile: https://people.ucd.ie/karen.keaveney</td>
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