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Edgar Liu

City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Edgar Liu

Edgar is a Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture’s City Futures Research Centre. He has background in cultural and economic geography. Since July 2021, Edgar was also a Senior Research Fellow at the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise’s Healthy Populations and Environments Platform (formerly the Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory; July 2021-Jan 2025), including as its Project Officer between May and December 2023.

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. He is on the Editorial Board of the Q1 journals Ageing and Society, and was an Associate Editor with the Frontiers in Sustainable Cities’ Urban Energy End-Use section (2020-2024).

FURTHER INFORMATION

Countries Australia;
Topics Access to care; Ageing in place; Care economy; Care inequalities; Care innovations; Care integration/ coordination; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care outcomes; Care trajectories; Gender and care; Home/domiciliary care; Housing and care; Living arrangements; Loneliness among older people; Unpaid / informal care;
Methods Case studies; Data science and LTC research; Delphi surveys; Discourse analysis; Document analysis; Ethnography; Focus groups; Grounded Theory; Literature reviews and synthesis; Mixed methods; Policy analysis; Qualitative studies; Questionnaire; Scoping reviews; Surveys; Thematic analysis;
Role Research;
Interest Groups Ageing and Place; Unmet need inequalities and care poverty (UNICAP);
Websitehttps://cityfutures.ada.unsw.edu.au/about-us/our-profiles/edgar-liu/
ORC.ID0000-0003-2839-0875
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LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/edgar-liu-47a75a2b/
Other 1https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Edgar.Liu/about;
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Research interests

Multigeneration Households, adult children living at home

Housing decision-making

Housing estate regeneration

Energy poverty & deprivation

Ageing in place
Key publications

Liu, E., Atkins, M., Chomik, R. and Judd, B. (2023) “The World Health Organization’s impacts on age-friendly policymaking: A case study on Australia”, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58(3): 714-728, DOI:10.1002/ajs4.240

Liu, E., Prankumar, S., Wong, H. and Mao, L. (2023) Ageing at the intersection of diversities: Assessing and addressing formal and informal care needs when diversities intersect [data visualisation], the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (Maridulu Budyari Gumal).

Yashadhana, A., Fields, T., Liu, E., Serova, N., O’Leary, M., Kenning, G., Kuchelmeister, V., Lockhart, and de Leeuw, E. (2023) “Therapeutic aspects of Connection to Country and cultural landscapes among Aboriginal peoples from Stolen Generations living in urban NSW”, Public Health Research and Practice, 33(4):e3342332, DOI: 10.17061/phrp3342332

Liu, E., Judd, B. and 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, 28 October.

Travers, M., Liu, E., Cook, P., Osborne, C., Jacobs, K., Aminpour, F. and Dwyer, Z. (2022) Business models, consumer experiences and regulation of retirement villages, AHURI Final Report No. 392, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/392, DOI: 10.18408/ahuri4127501.

Liu, E. (2021) “Intergenerational housing” in D. Gu and M. Dupre (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, section: Aging and Housing, D. Faulkner (Ed.), Springer, p. 26754-2678.

Liu, E. (2021) Ageing in Hong Kong 2006-2016 [data visualisation], UNSW Sydney.

Liu, E. (2021) Ageing in Japan 2005-2015 [data visualisation], UNSW Sydney.

Liu, E. (2021) Ageing in New Zealand 2006-2018 [data visualisation], UNSW Sydney.

Faulkner, D., Verdouw, J., Cook, P., Tually, S., Liu, E., Judd, B., Barrie, H. and Coram, V. (2021) Ageing well in public housing, AHURI Final Report No. 369, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/369, DOI: 10.18408/ahuri3121701.

Liu, E., Chomik, R., Sisson, A., Atkins, M. and Judd, B. (2020) CityViz: Ageing in Australia 2006-2016, City Futures Research Centre, Sydney.

Judd, B., Tanoue, K. and Liu, E. (eds) (2020) Ageing in place: Design, planning and policy responses in the western Asia-Pacific, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Judd, B., Liu, E., Easthope, H., and Bridge, C. (2016) “Retirement village or the general community? Downsizing choices of older Australians”, 7th State of Australian Cities Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 9-11 December 2015.

Judd, B., Liu, E., Easthope, H., Davy, L., and Bridge, C. (2014) Downsizing amongst older Australians, AHURI Final Report No. 214, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Limited, Melbourne, https://www.ahuri.edu.au/research/final-reports/214.

Judd, B., Liu, E., Easthope, H. and Bridge, C. (2014) “Downsizers and Other Movers: The Housing Options, Choices and Dilemmas of Older Australians”, International Conference on Universal Design, Lund, Sweden, 16-18 June 2014.

Judd, B., Liu, E., Easthope, H. and Bridge, C. (2013) “Understanding downsizing in later life and its implications for housing and urban policy”, 6th State of Australian Cities Conference, Sydney, Australia, 26-29 November 2013.

Judd, B., Bridge, C., Easthope, E. and Liu, E. (2013) “Downsizing: Motivations, Processes and Outcomes for Older Australians”, 7th Australasian Housing Researchers’ Conference, Fremantle, Australia, 6-8 February 2013.