Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS | Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney
Edgar Liu is a Research Director at UTS' Institute for Sustainable Futures (0.6FTE), and a Senior Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney's City Futures Research Centre (0.4FTE).
His research interests are in the humanistic and social aspects of housing and urban life. He is co-editor to 3 books - Place and Placelessness Revisited (Routledge, May 2016), Multigenerational Family Living (Routledge, November 2016), and Ageing in Place (Edward Elgar, November 2020) - as well as project manager and researcher to a number of externally funded research projects on public estate renewals, the community housing sector, and barriers that lower income households face in reducing carbon consumption.
Prior to joining City Futures in 2009, Edgar previously worked at the not-for-profit organisation Western Sydney Information and Research Service (WESTIR Ltd) as a Social Research and Information Officer.
Experience
2021–present
Senior Research Fellow, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise
2022–present
Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
2020–2022
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
2018–2020
Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
2015–2018
Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
2010–2014
Research Associate at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
2009–2010
Research Officer at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Education
2009
University of New South Wales, PhD (Geography)
2002
University of New South Wales, B Sc (Applied Economic Geography) Hons I
Publications
2020
Ageing in place: Design, planning and policy responses in the western Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar
2020
Luck and leaps of faith: How the digital informal economy transforms the geographies of shared renting in Australia, Social and Cultural Geography
2020
Cultural diversity and sensitivity in public estate renewals: Evidence from a longitudinal study, Housing Studies
2019
Regional variations in the experiences of energy poverty across Australia, Energy & Buildings
2018
Diversity and participation in private apartment buildings: A review of the literature, Geographical Research
2018
Book review – Population ageing and Australia’s future, Ageing & Society
2017
Book review – The Australian dream: Housing experiences of older Australians, Housing Studies
2017
Challenges in transitioning to low carbon living for lower income households in Australia, Advances in Building Energy Research
2017
The impacts of affordable housing development on host neighbourhoods, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
2016
Delivering social housing: examining the nexus between social housing and the urban democracy agenda, Housing, Theory and Society
2016
Place and Placelessness Revisited, Routledge
2016
Multigenerational family living: Evidence and policy implications from Australia, Routledge
2016
The factors driving the escalation of community opposition to affordable housing development, Urban Policy and Research
2016
Changing perceptions of family: A study of multigenerational households in Australia, Journal of Sociology
2016
Geographies of adult multigenerational family households in metropolitan Sydney, Geographical Research
2015
Feeling at home in a multigenerational household: The importance of control, Housing, Theory and Society
Professional Memberships
Geographical Society of New South Wales (2018-19)
Australasian Early Career Urban Research Network (2014-15)