Newcastle University

Professor Philip O’Neill

• Professorial Fellow of the Urban Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney
• iBUILD Expert Advisory Board

Professor Phillip O’Neill is Professorial Fellow of the Urban Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney. Previously he was and Foundation Director of the Urban Research Centre and Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies at the University of Newcastle.

Phillip is a widely published international scholar with expertise relating to economic and industrial change especially in large cities.

He had held visiting research fellowships at Bristol University, The University of Massachusetts, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Oxford. Phillip is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geographical Research and sits on the editorial boards of a number of leading international journals.

Phillip has held six prestigious Australian Research Council grants including his current grants which investigate Australia’s obstinate infrastructure problems.

Phillip writes regular columns for the Fairfax regional and community press and is a prominent media commentator.

In recent times he has completed a 25 year outlook study of employment for Western Sydney, an investigation of mortgage distress in significantly affected Western Sydney neighbourhoods, a detailed audit of Sydney’s threatened agricultural lands, and a path-breaking analysis of Sydney's fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains