Lisel O'Dwyer

Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Housing and Urban Studies, Quantitative Analysis and GIS, Inequality, Health, Animal Geography

Contact Details  Office: Room 308 Social Sciences North  Postal: School of Geography, Population and Environmental Management, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100,Adelaide SA 5001, Australia  Email: Lisel.Odwyer@flinders.edu.au  Phone: (08) 8201 2969 (in Australia); (618) 8201 2969 (outside Australia)  Fax: (08) 8201 3521 (in Australia); (618) 8201 3521 (outside Australia)

Qualifications

Position Held

Consultancy Capabilities

• Qualitative surveys, general social research
• Demographic and quantitative analysis
• SPSS help

Current and Recent Scholarly Activities

• Former Secretary for the Institute of Australian Geographers
• List administrator for IAG electronic discussion forum
• Member of the Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee
• Discrimination Contact Officer for Social Sciences

Research Areas

• Housing and Urban Studies
• ARC/SPIRT project: Spatial Patterns in Private Rental Housing - view maps
• Use of GIS in Public Health
• Identifying Risk of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Australia
• Social Justice and Inequality
• Animal Geography
• Maps

Selected Publications

• O’Dwyer, L. A. and Burton, D. L. (1998) ‘Potential meets reality: GIS and public health research in Australia, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 22, 7, pp 819-824.

O’Dwyer, L. A. (1999) 'Housing inheritance and the private rental sector in Australia', Housing Studies, 14, 6, pp. 755-776.
• Hugo, G., O’Dwyer, L., Manka, T., Beer, A. and Kirchner, K.(2000) Drivers of Contemporary and Future Housing Demand in Adelaide and Outer Adelaide,  South Australian Department of Human Services, North Terrace, Adelaide.
• Beer, A. P. and O’Dwyer, L. A. (2000) ‘The use of data from South Australia’s rental tenancy tribunal for research and policy analysis: issues of validity and efficacy’, Urban Policy and Research,18, 1, pp. 29-44.
• O’Dwyer, L. A. (2000)‘Bequeathing and inheriting housing wealth’ Chapter 3, pp 81-95 in Badcock, B. A. and Beer, A. P. ‘Home Truths: Housing Wealth in Australia’,  Melbourne University Press.
• O’Dwyer, L. A. (2000) ‘What’s geography got to do with health? Medical geography’s contribution to epidemiology’, Australasian Epidemiologist, 7, 3, pp. 35-38.
• O’Dwyer, L.A. (2001) ‘The Impact of Housing Inheritance on the Distribution of Wealth in Australia’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 36, 1, pp 83-100.
• O’Dwyer, L.A. (2001) ‘Using GIS to Identify Risk of Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children’, Australian Geographical Studies 39,1, pp. 79-90.
• O’Dwyer, L. A. (2001) ‘Spatial and Temporal Change in Private Rental Housing – What do Rental Bonds Reveal?’ Poster presented to the National Housing Conference, Sheraton Hotel, Brisbane, October 2001.
• O’Dwyer, L. A. (invited review, in press) Review of Gatrell, A. C. 2001,’Geographies of Health’, Australian Geographical Studies.
• O’Dwyer, L. A. (forthcoming), ‘The Australian Private Rental Sector – Structure, Supply and Spatial Expression’ paper accepted for presentation at the European Network for Housing Research Biennial Conference, “Housing Cultures: Convergence and Diversity”, University of Vienna, Austria, July 1-5, 2002.

Personal Interests

• Natural Horsemanship - partnership and communication between horse and rider using body language and based on mutual respect.
• Dressage - dancing with horses.
• Centred and Right Brain Riding - using the mind to control the body
• Clicker Training - an invaluable tool for training and communicating with all animals.