About Myfan Jordan

Myfan has spent 20 years working with communities at the grassroots as an advocate and researcher specialising in "bottom-up" research, policy development, and program evaluation.

She has expertise in ageing, LGBTIQA+, aged care, housing, gender equality, disability, and intersectional disadvantage. 

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She has worked extensively in local government and the non-government sector. She sits on the Board of CoHousing Australia and convenes their Creating Community Working Group.

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Myfan is a member of the New Economy Network of Australia, where she co-convenes the Women's Hub, is co-editor of the New Economy Journal, and also a member of La Trobe University’s Care Economy Research Institute

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She has published numerous policy briefs, articles and research pieces, including:

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• Gendered Housing

• Pandemic or Endemic? Older women and the toxic workplace

• Who is protecting Australians ageing-in-place?

• Could the pandemic reshape rental housing?

• Home for Good: Communities for Wellbeing

• Home for Good: social housing for an ageing population

• Cooperative ageing: Innovative solutions to older women’s precarious housing

• Cohousing, a natural for universal design

• Mutual Appreciation: co-operative ageing for women

• Home as a Pillar of Retirement is Crumbling