Associate Professor Lisel O'Dwyer
Academic Status
College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Lisel O'Dwyer is a social scientist with more than two decades of experience in fields including ageing studies, child wellbeing, population studies, public and community health, housing and urban studies, and human-animal relations. Her current research interests include the relationships between health (particularly obesity),employment and retirement of baby boomers, role of volunteering in ageing and social participation, pets as family, intergenerational exchanges and mobility, the role of public toilets in social mobility and the impact of the national Communities for Children program. She has expertise in a wide range of research methods spanning both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
BA 1989 (Flin) majors in psychology and geography
BA Hons First Class (Adelaide), human geography
PhD (Flin) intergenerational transfers of wealth,distribution of wealth, impact on private rental supply and lifecourse of beneficiaries, homeownership as means of wealth accumulation, death rates, home ownership rates and access to home ownership by age group, bequeathing patterns.
Lifetime Membership of the Institute of Australian Geographers for service to the IAG
Australian Research Centre for Networks and Spatially Integrated Social Sciences (ARCNSISS) Scholarship
John Lewis Silver Medal
Australian Post Graduate Award
National Steering Committee for Defining Volunteering
Human and Animal Research Group (HARG) based at the University of Adelaide
Institute of Australian Geographers
South Australian Active Ageing Research Cluster
Volunteering Strategy for South Australia (Working Group 4 - identifying barriers to volunteering and progressively adapting the strategy through continuous improvement; supporting the development of the pilot for an innovative time exchange program in South Australia)
IAG-List Administrator and Moderator
Reviewer for a range of top national and international journals including
• Critical Public Health (International)
• Housing Studies (International)
• Geographical Research (formerly Australian Geographical Studies - National)
• The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (TransTasman)
• Health and Place (International)
• International Journal of Aging and Society
• Critical Animal Studies (International)
Submission to the Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians, September 2011 (with Hugo, Buckley and Faulkner) http://archive.treasury.gov.au/EPSA/content/publications/enabling_opp/advisory_panel.asp
Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Health Geographics
ARC Large Grant Reviewer
- Community/Public Health
- Geography
- Research
- Urban Planning
- Health Geography
- Human Geography
- Social Research
- Urban and Housing Studies
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