Dr Liam Grealy

Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor

Qualifications:

PhD, University of Sydney, 2013; Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), University of Sydney, 2008

Location:

Darwin – Casuarina Campus

Biography:

Liam Grealy is Principal Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the Division of Wellbeing and Preventable Chronic Diseases. He leads a program of research focused on housing and homelessness policy and programs in regional and remote Australia.

At Menzies, Liam has led monitoring and evaluation projects focused on the Northern Territory Government’s Homelands Housing and Infrastructure Program (2023-25) and the Healthy Homes remote maintenance program (2021-23). He led research commissioned by Aboriginal Housing NT into options for increasing Aboriginal control of the remote housing system (2024-25). Liam has been a chief investigator on Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute projects focused on sustainable remote housing, remote infrastructural needs, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing system. 

Liam trained in gender and cultural studies at the University of Sydney, where he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and for the Housing for Health Incubator (2018-2022). He was a visiting research scholar at Louisiana State University from 2018-2020. Liam is a founding member of Infrastructural Inequalities and the Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies Group, and a member of numerous NT-based community steering committees.