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
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2021–presentSenior Research Fellow, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise
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2022–presentSenior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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2020–2022Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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2018–2020Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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2015–2018Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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2010–2014Research Associate at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
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2009–2010Research Officer at City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales
Education
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2009University of New South Wales, PhD (Geography)
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2002University of New South Wales, B Sc (Applied Economic Geography) Hons I
Publications
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2020Ageing in place: Design, planning and policy responses in the western Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar
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2020Luck and leaps of faith: How the digital informal economy transforms the geographies of shared renting in Australia, Social and Cultural Geography
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2020Cultural diversity and sensitivity in public estate renewals: Evidence from a longitudinal study, Housing Studies
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2019Regional variations in the experiences of energy poverty across Australia, Energy & Buildings
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2018Diversity and participation in private apartment buildings: A review of the literature, Geographical Research
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2018Book review – Population ageing and Australia’s future, Ageing & Society
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2017Book review – The Australian dream: Housing experiences of older Australians, Housing Studies
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2017Challenges in transitioning to low carbon living for lower income households in Australia, Advances in Building Energy Research
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2017The impacts of affordable housing development on host neighbourhoods, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
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2016Delivering social housing: examining the nexus between social housing and the urban democracy agenda, Housing, Theory and Society
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2016Place and Placelessness Revisited, Routledge
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2016Multigenerational family living: Evidence and policy implications from Australia, Routledge
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2016The factors driving the escalation of community opposition to affordable housing development, Urban Policy and Research
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2016Changing perceptions of family: A study of multigenerational households in Australia, Journal of Sociology
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2016Geographies of adult multigenerational family households in metropolitan Sydney, Geographical Research
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2015Feeling 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)
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Website
- @DrEdgarLiu
- Article Feed
- edgar.liu@unsw.edu.au
- ORCID
- Joined
