STAFF PROFILE
Dr Megan Nethercote
Position:
Senior Research Fellow (DECRA)
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School of GUSS
Phone:
+61399251061
Email:
megan.nethercote@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Dr Megan Nethercote is an ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research.
Dr Megan Nethercote is an ARC DECRA Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Research. Within the Centre for Urban Research she co-leads the Housing Research Program and, for the Urban Futures EIP, she co-convenes the Housing@RMIT network. In 2017, Megan was awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellowship and a Malcolm Moore Industry Research Award.
- PhD – RMIT
- Bacherlor of Architecture – University of Melbourne
- Master of Architecture – University of Edinburgh, UK
- Nethercote, M. (2022). The post-politicization of rental housing financialization: News media, elite storytelling and Australia's new build to rent market In: Political Geography, 98, 1 - 13
- Nethercote, M. (2022). Racialized geographies of home: Property, unhoming and other possible futures In: Progress in Human Geography, 46, 935 - 959
- Nethercote, M. (2022). In press - The Techno-politics of Rental Housing Financialization: Real Estate Service Companies and Technocratic Expertise in Australia’s Build to Rent Market In: Economic Geography, , 1 - 29
- Dorignon, L.,Nethercote, M. (2021). Disorientation in the unmaking of high-rise homes In: Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46, 363 - 377
- Willand, N.,Nethercote, M. (2020). Smoking in apartment buildings – Spatiality, meanings and understandings In: Health and Place, 61, 1 - 8
- Easthope, H.,Crommelin, L.,Troy, L.,Davison, G.,Nethercote, M.,Foster, S.,Van Den Nouwelant, R.,Kleeman, A.,Randolph, B.,Horne, R. (2020). Improving outcomes for apartment residents and neighbourhoods, AHURI Final Report No. 329 In: AHURI Melbourne, Australia
- Nethercote, M. (2019). Immaterial Inheritance: The Socialization of Cultures of Housing Consumption In: Housing, Theory and Society, 36, 359 - 375
- Nethercote, M. (2019). Melbourne’s vertical expansion and the political economies of high-rise residential development In: Urban Studies, 56, 3394 - 3414
- Nethercote, M. (2019). Homeowner investor subjects as providers of family care and assistance In: Housing Studies, 34, 1037 - 1063
- Nethercote, M. (2019). Build-to-Rent and the financialization of rental housing: future research directions In: Housing Studies, 35, 839 - 874
Housing, Urban development, Critical urban geography, Indigenous housing policy,
1 PhD Completions
- Inquiry into housing in a circular economy (21/PRO/53280). Funded by: Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI) - Competitive from (2021 to 2022)
- Sustainable apartment housing: new build and retrofit (21/PRO/71282) (Administered by University of New South Wales). Funded by: Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI) - Competitive from (2021 to 2022)
- Rent city: Prospects for high-density liveability in new housing tenures. Funded by: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) 2020 from (2020 to 2024)
- Improving outcomes for apartment residents and neighbourhoods (Administered by UNSW). Funded by: AHURI Research Grants 2019 (CAT 1 Generic) from (2019 to 2020)
- Living Change: Adaptive housing responses to climate change in the town camps of Alice Springs. Funded by: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Climate Change Research Grant Pre-2014 from (2012 to 2013)