Academic Level D
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