Dr Sinéad Kelly

    Geography

    Lecturer

    Rhetoric House
    20
    (01) 708 3938

    Biography

    I am an urban political geographer interested in understanding the changing socio-economic dynamics of cities and their effects on urban communities. I gained a PhD in Geography from Trinity College and am currently a Lecturer in Human Geography. I have a particular interest in property development and processes of financialisation, urban regeneration, gentrification, planning policy and post-crisis processes of neoliberalism. I am currently researching the myriad ways in which processes of financialisation are affecting cities drawing particular attention to the increasing integration between real estate, finance and urban planning. I recently completed a jointly edited book (with Andrew MacLaran, TCD) examining the reshaping of Dublin city through a range of neoliberal urban policies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). I am a research affiliate of the ERC-funded Real Estate Financial Complex (REFCOM) project led by Prof. Manuel Aalbers and am a member of the FINGEO research network. From 2005 to 2010, I acted as Director of the Forum for Irish Urban Studies (2005-2010). In recent years, I have been a visiting fellow at KU Leuven (2016) and the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales (2012).

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2014 Kelly, S (2014) 'Taking Liberties: Gentrification as Neoliberal Urban Policy in Dublin' In: NEOLIBERAL URBAN POLICY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY: RESHAPING DUBLIN. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE.
    2014 Kelly, S (2014) 'Light-Touch Regulation: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Banking Sector' In: NEOLIBERAL URBAN POLICY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY: RESHAPING DUBLIN. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE.
    2014 MacLaran, A; Kelly, S (2014) 'Irish Neoliberalism and Neoliberal Urban Policy' In: NEOLIBERAL URBAN POLICY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY: RESHAPING DUBLIN. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE.
    2014 MacLaran, A; Kelly, S (2014) 'Neoliberal Urban Policy and Challenging the Ideological Straightjacket' In: NEOLIBERAL URBAN POLICY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY: RESHAPING DUBLIN. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE.
    2014 MacLaran, A; Kelly, S (2014) 'Neoliberalism: The Rise of a Bad Idea' In: NEOLIBERAL URBAN POLICY AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CITY: RESHAPING DUBLIN. BASINGSTOKE : PALGRAVE.
    2013 MacLaran, A., Kelly, S. and Brudell, P. (2013) 'Dublin's Neoliberal Agenda and the Social Cost of Entrepreneurial Planning' In: Fol, S., Lehman-Frisch, S. and Morange, M(Eds.). Segregation et justice spatiale. Paris : Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest.
    2012 Kelly, S. (2012) 'Towards a Geography of NAMA' In: Fraser, A(Eds.). Forty Essays: Celebrating Forty Years of Geography at NUI Maynooth. Maynooth : NUI Maynooth. [Full-Text]
    2007 MacLaran, A. and Kelly, S. (2007) 'Urban Property Development' In: Bartley, B. and Kitchin, R(Eds.). Understanding Contemporary Ireland. Dublin : Pluto Press. [Full-Text]
    2007 Punch, M., Redmond, D. and Kelly, S. (2007) 'Uneven development, city governance and urban change: Unpacking the global-local nexus in Dublin’s inner city' In: Hambleton, R. and Gross, J.S(Eds.). Governing Cities in a Global Era: Urban innovation, competition and democratic reform. New York : Palgrave. [Full-Text]
    2004 Kelly, S. and MacLaran, A. (2004) 'The Residential Transformation of Inner Dublin' In: Drudy, P. and MacLaran, A(Eds.). Dublin: Economic and Social Trends, Vol. 4. Dublin : Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, Trinity College.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2015 O'Callaghan C.; Kelly S.; Boyle M.; Kitchin R. (2015) 'Topologies and topographies of Ireland's neoliberal crisis'. Space and Polity, 19 (1):31-46. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2013 Fraser, A., Murphy, E. and Kelly, S (2013) 'Deepening Neoliberalism via Austerity and 'Reform': The Case of Ireland'. Human Geography, 6 :38-53. [Full-Text]
    2007 Kelly, S. (2007) 'The Liberties Transformed: the emergence of new commerical and residential spaces in inner Dublin'. JOURNAL OF IRISH URBAN STUDIES, 6 :89-118. [Full-Text]

    Conference Contribution

    Year Publication
    2016 Kelly S (2016) The City Limits of Financialization American Association of Geographers, Annual Conference, San Francisco, 29 March - 2 April San Francisco, 29/03/2016-02/04/2016.
    2015 Kelly, S. (2015) Financial re-engineering in post-crash cities: the role of new investment funds Conference of Irish Geographers Queen’s University Belfast, 22/05/2015-24/05/2015.
    2015 Kelly, S. (2015) Towards a Real Housing Strategy: solutions to end the housing crisis Housing Action Now Public Conference, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 3 October Liberty Hall, Dublin, 03/10/2015-.
    2014 Prof. Pauline McGuirk (2014) Practices, programs and projects of urban carbon governance: perspectives from the Australian city School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Faculty of Social Science, Department of Geography, Visiting Professor, .
    2013 (2013) Mediating and driving the financialization of the city: the case of pre- and post-crash Dublin Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2013 Annual Conference, Milan, 27-29 June Milan, .
    2013 Kelly S (2013) Cities in crisis: pre- and post-crash processes of financialisation Real Estate Financial Complex (REFCOM) Seminar, University of Leuven, 2-4 December KU Leuven, 02/12/2013-04/12/2013.
    2013 (2013) Deepening neoliberalism via ‘austerity and reform’: the Irish crisis Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway, 16-18 May NUI Galway, .
    2013 (2013) Financialising the City: bubbles, blow-outs and hyperaccumulation Department of Geography Seminar Series 2013-14 NUI Maynooth, .
    2012 (2012) ’Make safe the city!’ examining the relationship between property capital and the state in processes Conference of Irish Geographers, Trinity College Dublin, 25-27 May Dublin, .
    2012 Kelly S (2012) Financialisation and the construction of gentrification: examining the property-capital, finance and New Zealand Geographical Society 2012 Annual Conference, Napier, 3-6 December Napier, .
    2012 (2012) Driving the Financialisation of Space: the case of Anglo Networks and Flows in Economic Space Conference, NUI Maynooth, 30 Jan NUI Maynooth, .
    2012 (2012) Finance and the global-local dialectic: Anglo as mediator? Association of American Geographers 2012 Annual Conference, New York, 23-28 February New York, .

    Magazine Article

    Year Publication
    2015 Kelly, S. (2015) Dublin’s pre- en post-crisis’ groeimachines [Dublin’s pre- and post-crisis’ growth machines]. [Magazine Article] [Link]
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