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Dr Edgar Liu

Edgar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture's City Futures Research Centre (0.4FTE). He first joined City Futures in April 2009 soon after completing his PhD in cultural geography (also at the University of New South Wales). His research primarily focuses on assessing the effectiveness of public housing estate regeneration in Australia; multigenerational family housing; ageing in place; and concepts of community and place. Since July 2021, Edgar is also a Senior Research Fellow (0.6 FTE) at the Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research's Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory, a partnership between UNSW, UTS, WSU and two NSW Health Local Health Districts.


Selected Publications

Journal articles

Liu E; Atkins MT; Chomik R; Judd B, 2022, 'The World Health Organization's impacts on age-friendly policymaking: A case study on Australia', Australian Journal of Social Issues, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.240

Creative Written Works

Liu E; Judd B; Atkins M, 2022, Most older Australians aren’t in aged care. Policy blind spots mean they live in communities that aren’t age-friendly, The Conversation, Watson J, (ed.), https://theconversation.com/most-older-australians-arent-in-aged-care-policy-blind-spots-mean-they-live-in-communities-that-arent-age-friendly-192591

Other

Liu E; Chomik R; Sisson A; Atkins M; Judd B, 2020, Ageing in Australia 2006-2016, https://cityfutures.be.unsw.edu.au/cityviz/ageing-australia/