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Dr Stephen McKay

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Stephen McKay

Dr Stephen McKay

School of Natural and Built Environment

Dr McKay has published extensively on policy making, law and ethics. He is currently joint PI on a research project with Vu City Ltd which is for the development of a 3D interactive model which can model the impact of proposed buildings instantaneously, evaluate planning development proposals, identify problems and offer solutions in order to facilitate fast, effective, high-quality decision making by private sector consultants, public sector authorities, and government departments.

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  • s.mckay@qub.ac.uk
  • +44 (0)28 9097 4244

Research Interests

  • Planning practice
  • Planning Law
  • Resilience in urban planning

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Public outreach & key achievements

  • Honorary Professor at the East China Institute of Technology
  • Adviser to the Minister for the Environment
  • Expert Advisor to the NI Environment Committee
  • Expert adviser to RTPI Countryside Panel

Research students

“Problematising the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning”, John Bronte.

“ Planning, Uncomfortable Knowledge and Reflexive Governance”, Dean Blackwood.


Alumni: Where are they now

Alan McCarten (2015)- Planning, Mediation and the Divided City

Riona McGrath (2018) – Disaster Management


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  • Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science 
  • School of Natural and Built Environment
  • https://vu.city/queens-university-secure-knowledge-transfer-partnership-funding/

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