Professor Phillip O'Neill

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Biography

Professor of Economic Geography, School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University (2006-present)

Inaugural Director, Centre for Western Sydney (2014-2020)

Provost, Western Sydney University Bankstown City Campus (2018-2020)

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

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), University College London (2015)

Fellow of the Institute of Australian Geographers (awarded 2008)

Editor-in-Chief, Geographical Research (2009 to 2013)

Member of Editorial Boards (various years) of Transactions of Institute of British Geographers (Wiley Blackwell); Progess in Human Geography (Arnold), Environment and Planning A (Pion); Journal of Economic Geography (OUP); Compass (Wiley Blackwell); Regional Studies, Regional Science (Taylor and Francis); Human Geography.

Member International Advisory Board, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) University of Newcastle, UK

Member International Expert Advisory Board i-Build, U.K. (2013 to 2018)

Member International Advisory Board, Fourth Global Conference in Economic Geography, Oxford, August 19-22, 2015

Member ERA2018 Research Evaluation Committee (Education and Human Society), Australian Research Council 2019

Columnist Newcastle Herald (2003-present); Fairfax Community Newspapers (Sydney, 2016-present)

Awarded in 2015 the Macdonald Holmes Medal by the NSW Geographical Society together with the NSW Geography Teachers’ Association. This award is made biennially to a person deemed to have made a distinguished contribution in the field of geographical education in Australia.

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Qualifications

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

Professional Memberships

Institute of Australian Geographers (1991)

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Geography, Tourism & Planning

Contact

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Location:	ED.G.118 Parramatta

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

102604 Urban Planning Placement Project, 2021
HUMN2053 The Economics of Cities and Regions, 2022

Publications

Books

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.

Chapters in Books

O'Neill, P. (2018), 'Capital projects and infrastructure in urban and economic development', Routledge Companion to the Geography of International Business, Routledge 9781138953345.
O'Neill, P. (2018), 'Infrastructure and finance', The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press 9780198755609.
O'Neill, P. (2017), 'Green infrastructure', The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley & Sons 9781118786352.
O'Neill, P. (2017), 'Infrastructure's contradictions : how private finance is reshaping cities', Money and Finance After the Crisis: Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times, Wiley & Sons 9781119051428.
O'Neill, P. and Weller, S. (2016), 'Neoliberalism in question', The Handbook of Neoliberalism, Routledge 9781138844001.
O'Neill, P. and McGuirk, P. (2014), 'Qualitative methods in socio-spatial research', Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Spatially Integrated Social Science, Edward Elgar Publishing 9780857932969.
O'Neill, P. and James, S. (2014), 'Feeding Sydney : assessing the importance of the city's peri-urban farms', The Security of Water, Food, Energy and Liveability of Cities: Challenges and Opportunities for Peri-Urban Futures, Springer 9789401788779.
O'Neill, P. (2014), 'How infrastructure became a structured investment vehicle', Engaging Geographies: Landscapes, Lifecourses and Mobilities, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443856041.
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

Clark, G. and O'Neill, P. (2023), 'An economic and financial geography of the Australian superannuation industry', Geographical Research, vol 61 , pp 443 - 457.
Martin, A. and O'Neill, P. (2021), 'Location dynamics of commercial art galleries in Sydney', Australian Geographer, vol 52, no 3 , pp 273 - 292.
Ey, M., Mee, K., Allison, J., Caves, S., Crosbie, E., Hughes, A., Curtis, F., Doney, R., Dunstan, P., Jones, R., Tyndall, A., Baker, T., Cameron, J., Duffy, M., Dufty-Jones, R., Dunn, K., Hodge, P., Kearnes, M., McGuirk, P., O'Neill, P., Ruming, K., Sherval, M., Williams, M. and Wright, S. (2020), 'Becoming reading group : reflections on assembling a collegiate, caring collective', Australian Geographer, vol 51, no 3 , pp 283 - 305.
Knight, E., Kumar, V., Wojcik, D. and O'Neill, P. (2020), 'The competitive advantage of regions : economic geography and strategic management intersections', Regional Studies, vol 54, no 5 , pp 591 - 595.
O'Neill, P. (2019), 'The financialisation of urban infrastructure : a framework of analysis', Urban Studies, vol 56, no 7 , pp 1304 - 1325.
O'Brien, P., O'Neill, P. and Pike, A. (2019), 'Funding, financing and governing urban infrastructures', Urban Studies, vol 56, no 7 , pp 1291 - 1303.
Wojcik, D., Pazitka, V., Knight, E. and O'Neill, P. (2019), 'Investment banking centres since the global financial crisis : new typology, ranking and trends', Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, vol 51, no 3 , pp 687 - 704.
O'Neill, P., Knight, E. and Wojcik, D. (2018), 'Australia's shifting global engagement : the stuttering rise of financial services and city-based competitiveness', Australian Geographer, vol 49, no 3 , pp 349 - 364.
Martinus, K., Sigler, T., O'Neill, P. and Tonts, M. (2018), ''Global restructuring' two decades on : Australia's relational economy in the twenty-first century', Australian Geographer, vol 49, no 3 , pp 341 - 348.
Wojcik, D., Knight, E., O'Neill, P. and Pazitka, V. (2018), 'Economic geography of investment banking since 2008 : the geography of shrinkage and shift', Economic Geography, vol 94, no 4 , pp 376 - 399.
O'Neill, P. (2017), 'Managing the private financing of urban infrastructure', Urban Policy and Research, vol 35, no 1 , pp 32 - 43.
James, S. and O'Neill, P. (2016), 'Planning for peri-urban agriculture : a geographically-specific, evidence-based approach from Sydney', Australian Geographer, vol 47, no 2 .
McGuirk, P., O'Neill, P. and Mee, K. (2015), 'Effective practices for interagency data sharing : insights from collaborative research in a regional intervention', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol 74, no 2 , pp 199 - 211.
Weller, S. and O'Neill, P. (2014), 'An argument with neoliberalism : Australia's place in a global imaginary', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol 4, no 2 , pp 105 - 130.
Weller, S. and O'Neill, P. (2014), 'Actually existing political economies', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol 4, no 2 , pp 165 - 167.
Weller, S. and O'Neill, P. (2014), 'De-industrialisation, financialisation and Australia's macro-economic trap', Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol 7, no 3 , pp 509 - 526.
Grosvenor, M. and O'Neill, P. (2014), 'The density debate in urban research : an alternative approach to representing urban structure and form', Geographical Research, vol 52, no 4 , pp 442 - 458.
O'Neill, P. (2013), 'The financialisation of infrastructure : the role of categorisation and property relations', Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, vol 6, no 3 , pp 441 - 454.
Wray, F., Dufty-Jones, R., Gibson, C., Larner, W., Beer, A., Le Heron, R. and O'Neill, P. (2013), 'Neither here nor there or always here and there? : Antipodean reflections on economic geography', Dialogues in Human Geography, vol 3, no 2 , pp 179 - 199.
O'Neill, P. and Weller, S. (2013), 'To what extent has Australia's developmental trajectory been neoliberalist?', Human Geography, vol 6, no 2 , pp 69 - 84.
O'Neill, P. (2012), 'Editorial. Frameworks for the future', Geographical Research, vol 50, no 2 , pp 113 - 114.
McGuirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2012), 'Critical geographies with the state : the problem of social vulnerability and the politics of engaged research', Antipode, vol 44, no 4 , pp 1374 - 1394.
O'Neill, P. (2011), 'Bringing Scholarship and Judgement into the Australian Population Debate', Geographical Research, vol 49, no 3 , pp 237 - 241.
O'Neill, P. (2011), 'Editorial:Celebrating 50 Volumes of Geographical Research', Geographical Research, vol 50, no 1 , pp 1 - 2.
O'Neill, P. (2010), 'Editorial', Geographical Research, vol 48, no 4 , pp 341 - 341.
O'Neill, P. (2010), 'Infrastructure financing and operation in the contemporary city', Geographical Research, vol 48, no 1 , pp 3 - 12.
O'Neill, P. (2009), 'Infrastructure Financing and Operation in the Contemporary City', Geographical Research, vol 48, no 1 , pp 3 - 12.
O'Neill, P. (2008), 'Role of theory in housing research : partial reflections of the work of Jim Kemeny', Housing, Theory and Society, vol 25, no 3 , pp 164 - 176.
Roberts, S., Wright, S. and O'Neill, P. (2007), 'Good governance in the Pacific? Ambivalence and possibility', Geoforum, vol 38, no 5 , pp 967 - 984.
O'Neill, P. and Fagan, B. (2006), 'Geographical Takes on Three Decades of Economic Reform in Australia', Geographical Research, vol 44, no 2 , pp 204 - 219.
O'Neill, P. and Mcguirk, B. (2005), 'Reterritorialisation of economies and institutions along the australian eastern seaboard', Space and Polity, vol 9 , pp 283 - 305.
O'Neill, P. and Argent, P. (2005), 'Neoliberalism in antipodean spaces and times: An introduction to the special theme issue', Geographical Research, vol 43, no 1 , pp 2 - 8.
O'Neill, P. and Moore, N. (2005), 'Real institutional responses to neoliberalism in Australia', Geographical Research, vol 43, no 1 , pp 19 - 28.
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, vol 40, no 9 , pp 1751 - 1767.
O'Neill, P. (2003), 'Where is the corporation in the geographical world', Progress in Human Geography, vol 27 , pp 677 - 680.
O'Neill, P. and Mcguirk, P. (2002), 'Prosperity along Australia's Eastern Seaboard: Sydney and the geopolitics of urban and economic change', Australian Geographer, vol 33, no 3 , pp 241 - 261.
Mcguirk, P. and O'Neill, P. (2002), 'Planning a Prosperous Sydney: the challenges of planning urban development in the new urban context', Australian Geographer, vol 33, no 3 , pp 301 - 316.
O'Neill, P. (2001), 'Financial narratives of the modern corporation', Journal of Economic Geography, vol 1, no 2 , pp 181 - 199.

Other Publications

2022, 'Wicked Urban Challenges in Western Sydney: Researchers Respond', Report
2021, 'Future Directions: Ways Forward for the Economies of Blacktown, Cumberland, Parramatta and The Hills : the Central City District of Sydney', Report
2020, 'Where Are the Jobs? Part 1: Western Sydney's Short-lived Jobs Boom', Report
2020, 'Where Are the Jobs? Part 3: Western Sydney Workers in 2036', Report
2020, 'Where Are the Jobs? Part 2: The Geography of Western Sydney's Jobs Deficit', Report
2015, 'Work, Places and People in Western Sydney: Changing Suburban Labour Markets 2001-2014', Report
2013, 'The Origins and Destinations of Produce Flows through Sydney Markets Limited Flemington Site', Report
2012, 'Response to Sydney Over the Next 20 Years: A Discussion Paper', Report
2011, 'Developing a Penrith Valley Economic Corridor: Report', Report
2011, 'Building Arabic Businesses: Alternative Pathways to Employment Generation in Sydney's Auburn-Bankstown Corridor', Report
2010, 'Sydney's Agricultural Lands: An Analysis', Report
2010, 'The Experience of Mortgage Distress in Western Sydney', Report
2008, 'Western Sydney Resident Journeys to Work in 2006', Report
2008, 'Housing Affordability Literature Review and Affordable Housing Program Audit', Report
2008, 'North-West and West-Central Sydney Employment Strategies: Final Report', Report

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