Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) of the University of Oxford. Previously, she was the Hellenic Bank Association Postdoctoral Fellow at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s Hellenic Observatory, and an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s European Institute, from where she also holds her PhD. Her research focuses on the political economy of place. Her research has been published in , the , , , , and . She is also a co-author of (Palgrave Pivot, 2018). Her newest project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is entitled “Land inequality and the politics of place in advanced democracies”, and it explores the economic and political consequences of differences in the land distribution at the local level. Her previous major project, “Cooperation against the odds”, explained under what conditions economic actors start working together in institutionally weak, low-trust settings to improve their productivity.
Research interests: Local development; Tourism sector; Comparative political economy; Collective action; Politics of place.