Dr. Megan Nethercote
Details
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College: School of PCPM
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Department: School of PCPM
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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megan.nethercote@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-5091-8029
About
Dr Megan Nethercote is an ARC DECRA Fellow & Senior Research Fellow.
Megan is a leading housing scholar, with expertise in apartment production and consumption, an interdisciplinary record in the social sciences and design (as a qualified architect), and experience delivering policy-relevant qualitative research. Megan publishes across urban, human, political, and economic geography, including diverse outputs (e.g. macro-theorisations; empirical studies; industry reports; policy briefings) and methodologies (e.g. policy analysis, qualitative inquiries).
Megan was awarded an ARC DECRA in 2020, an RMIT University Vice Chancellor’s Fellowship in 2017, and an RMIT Malcolm Moore Award for Industry 2016.
Megan is Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy, with Dr Sophia Maalsen.
Research fields
- 4406 Human geography
- 4407 Policy and administration
- 3304 Urban and regional planning
- 4410 Sociology
- 3801 Applied economics
- 3301 Architecture
- 3302 Building
- 4404 Development studies
- 4408 Political science
Supervisor projects
- Evaluating Design Quality Assessment of Apartments in Policy and Practice
- 7 Mar 2018
Teaching interests
Research interests
Megan's research concerns how economic and technological advances restructure urban space and transform the social relations of housing. This includes research on:
- the political economy of housing: including novel theorisations of high-rise investment, world-first empirical
case studies (e.g. of Australian build to rent, UK single family housing)
• the lived experience of housing and home including Australia-first accounts of contemporary high-rise living
and novel theorisations of home.
• the housing/tech/data nexus including novel theorisations of landlord technologies and empirical insight on renter data
In 2022/3, Megan and colleagues secured pilot funding to scope social factors in responsible investing in response to the sizeable international evidence gap that surrounds responsible investment and its outcomes, including vis-a-vis housing investment and its outcomes. Megan went on to pass the CFA ESG Investing certification (equiv. AQF5)—the highest relevant international investment certification.
Urban and Regional Planning, Policy and Administration, Human Geography, Sociology, Public Health and Health Services, Other studies in Human Society
