Professor Phillip O'Neill

Professor Phillip O'Neill

PROFESSOR,
Urban Research Centre (SoSSP)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhDGeo Macquarie University
  • MA(Hons) Macquarie University
  • BA(Hons) Macquarie University

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Urban Research Centre (SoSSP)

Professional Memberships

  • Institute of Australian Geographers (1991-01-01)

Contact

Email:P.ONeill@uws.edu.au
Extension:6643
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Location:1.1.34
Bankstown
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Biography

Director Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, The University of Newcastle, NSW (2000-2006)

Research Fellow at University of Bristol (1994), University of Massachusetts (1999), National University of Singapore (2003), University of Oxford (2010)

Foundation Director, Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney (2006-2012)

Professorial Fellow, Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney (2012-present)

Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers (2008 to present)

Editor-in-Chief, Geographical Research (2009 to present)

This information has been contributed by Professor O'Neill.

Publications

Books

  • Wray, F., Wu, C., O'Neill, P. and Dimeski, B. (2011), 'Building Arabic Businesses: Alternate Pathways to Employment Generation in Sydney's Auburn-Bankstown Corridor', : UWS Urban Research Centre 9780980824148.
  • O'Neill, P., Dimeski, B. and Wong, A. (2011), 'Developing a Penrith Valley Economic Corridor: Report', : UWS Urban Research Centre 9780980824131.
  • James, S., O'Neill, P. and Dimeski, B. (2010), 'Sydney's agricultural lands: an analysis', : Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney 9780980824124.
  • O'Neill, P., Camacho Duarte, O., Casiro, J., Gwyther, G. and Phibbs, P. (2010), 'The experience of mortgage distress in Western Sydney', : Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney 9780980824117.

Chapters in Books

  • O'Neill, P. (2012), 'The Industrial Corporation and Capitalism's Time-Space Fix', The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, Blackwell 9781444336801.
  • O'Neill, P. (2012), 'The industrial corporation and capitalism's time-space fix', The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography, Wiley-Blackwell 9781444336801.
  • McGuirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2010), 'Using questionnaires in qualitative human geography', Qualitative Methods in Human Geography, Oxford University Press 9780195430158.
  • O'Neill, P. (2010), 'The Language of Local and Regional Development', Handbook of Local and Regional Development, Routledge 9780415548311.
  • O'Neill, P. (2009), 'Infrastructure Investment and the Management of Risk', Managing Financial Risks: from Global to Local, Oxford University Press 9780199557431.
  • O'Neill, P. (2009), 'Privatization', International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier 9780080449111.
  • O'Neill, P. (2009), 'Enterprise Discourse', International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Elsevier 9780080449111.
  • O'Neill, P. (2007), 'A public language for analyzing the corporation', Politics and Practice in Economic Geography, Sage Publications 9781412907859.
  • O'Neill, P. (2006), 'The corporation, shareholder value added, and the power of financial managment narratives', Understanding the Firm: Spatial and Organizational Dimensions, Oxford University Press 0199260796.

Journal Articles

  • O'Neill, P. (2012), 'Critical Geographies with the State: The Problem of Social Vulnerability and the Politics of Engaged Research', Antipode, 21.
  • O'Neill, P. (2012), 'Frameworks for the future', Geographical Research, 2.
  • O'Neill, P. (2012), 'Editorial. Frameworks for the future', Geographical Research, 2.
  • McGuirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2012), 'Critical geographies with the state : the problem of social vulnerability and the politics of engaged research', Antipode, 21.
  • O'Neill, P. (2011), 'Bringing Scholarship and Judgement into the Australian Population Debate', Geographical Research, 5.
  • O'Neill, P. (2011), 'Editorial:Celebrating 50 Volumes of Geographical Research', Geographical Research, 2.
  • O'Neill, P. (2010), 'Editorial', Geographical Research, 1.
  • O'Neill, P. (2010), 'Infrastructure Financing and Operation in the Contemporary City', Geographical Research, 10.
  • O'Neill, P. (2009), 'Infrastructure Financing and Operation in the Contemporary City', Geographical Research, 10.
  • O'Neill, P. (2008), 'The role of theory in housing research: partial reflections of the work of Jim Kemeny', Housing, Theory and Society, 13.
  • Roberts, S., Wright, S. and O'Neill, P. (2007), 'Good governance in the Pacific? Ambivalence and possibility', Geoforum, 18.
  • O'Neill, P. and Fagan, B. (2006), 'Geographical Takes on Three Decades of Economic Reform in Australia', Geographical Research, 16.
  • O'Neill, P. and Mcguirk, B. (2005), 'Reterritorialisation of economies and institutions along the australian eastern seaboard', Space and Polity, 23.
  • O'Neill, P. and Argent, P. (2005), 'Neoliberalism in antipodean spaces and times: An introduction to the special theme issue', Geographical Research, 7.
  • O'Neill, P. and Moore, N. (2005), 'Real institutional responses to neoliberalism in Australia', Geographical Research, 10.
  • O'Neill, P. and Mcguirk, P. (2003), 'Reconfiguring the CBD: Work and Discourses of Design in Sydney's Office Space', Urban Studies: an international journal for research in urban and regional studies, 17.
  • O'Neill, P. (2003), 'Where is the corporation in the geographical world', Progress in Human Geography, 4.
  • O'Neill, P. and Mcguirk, P. (2002), 'Prosperity along Australia's Eastern Seaboard: Sydney and the geopolitics of urban and economic change', Australian Geographer, 21.
  • Mcguirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2002), 'Planning a Prosperous Sydney: the challenges of planning urban development in the new urban context', Australian Geographer, 16.
  • O'Neill, P. (2001), 'Financial narratives of the modern corporation', Journal of Economic Geography, 19.

Conference Papers

  • Mcguirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2007), 'Applying GIS in practitioner settings', ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop, University of Newcastle.
  • O'Neill, P. and Mcguirk, P. (2007), 'Towards an Antipodean theory of space', Towards an Antipodean theory of space in Proceedings of the ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop, University of Newcastle.
  • Mcguirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2007), 'Spatial theories of the urban', ARCRNSISS Methodology, Tools and Techniques and Spatial Theory Paradigm Forums Workshop, University of Newcastle.

Research

Urban infrastructure

Regional labour markets

Urban food supply chains

State theory and practice

This information has been contributed by Professor O'Neill.

Current Projects

Title:Tracing modes of infrastructure financing and their effects on cities
Years:2013-02-01 - 2016-01-31
ID:P00020802
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:The Development of North-West and West-Central Sydney Employment Strategies
Years:2007-11-08 - 2008-08-31
ID:P0015956
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill, Peter Phibbs, Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Eric Sidoti
Funding:
  • West Syd Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd
Title:An analysis of corporate power in the construction and operation of the city
Years:2006-11-23 - 2007-11-22
ID:P0015334
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • The Open University
Title:Professorial Chair - Professor Phillip O'Neill
Years:2006-09-20 - 2010-12-31
ID:P0015338
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Assessing data sources and indicators for monitoring urban development in new housing estates
Years:2006-12-20 - 2008-01-03
ID:P0015430
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Enabling inter-agency data sharing to support the spatial analysis of social vulnerability in a transforming region [via Uni Newcastle]
Years:2008-01-15 - 2010-12-31
ID:P0015458
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Identifying and explaining travel patterns in new housing estates
Years:2007-06-06 - 2008-03-31
ID:P0015407
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill and Phillip Toner
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • NSW Growth Centres Commission
Title:Developing criteria to help solve Australia's urban infrastructure crisis
Years:2010-04-01 - 2013-03-30
ID:P00016793
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)
Title:Consultant to the Housing Affordability Literature Review Project
Years:2008-06-05 - 2008-07-10
ID:P00016256
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill and Peter Phibbs
Funding:
  • Landcom
Title:Western Sydney Resident Journeys to Work in 2006
Years:2008-06-01 - 2008-12-30
ID:P00016257
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Planning
Title:Mortgage Distress Project, Household Survey Module
Years:2008-06-30 - 2009-06-30
ID:P00016258
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill, Peter Phibbs, Gabrielle Gwyther and Fiona Allon
Funding:
  • Reserve Bank of Australia
Title:Sydney's Position as a Relational Financial Centre in the Asia-Pacific
Years:2008-11-21 - 2009-11-20
ID:P00016437
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill, Donald Mcneill and Mark Davidson
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title:Analysis Report - Agricultural Lands in Sydney
Years:2010-02-18 - 2010-04-16
ID:P00018672
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill, Sarah James and Borce Dimeski
Funding:
  • NSW Department of Planning
Title:Building Arabic Businesses: Alternative Pathways to Employment Generation in Sydney's West Central Sub-region
Years:2010-06-09 - 2010-09-30
ID:P00019031
UWS Researchers:Phillip O'Neill, Tong Wu and Felicity Wray
Funding:
  • Department of Industry and Investment NSW

Supervision

Current Supervision

Title:Understanding Sustainability in an Urban Context
Field of Research:
Title:Infrastructure Costs Associated with Forms of Urban Development
Field of Research:
Title:Social Inclusion: Innovation in the Renewal of Older Housing Estates in Western Sydney.
Field of Research:

Media

Media Contact Details

Media Officer:UWS Media Unit
Phone:(02) 9678 7083
Email:media@uws.edu.au
Title:Columnist, Newcastle Herald
Description:Opinion pieces on urban and regional issues
Title:Twitter
Description:Comments on urban and regional issues

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