Sarah Bierre

BA (Hons), PhD
Research Fellow, University of Otago, Wellington
Sarah Bierre

Dr Sarah Bierre is a Senior Research Fellow with the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago and part of He Kāinga Oranga – The Housing and Health Research Programme.  She has a BA(Hons) in politics and geography from Victoria University and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Otago.

She uses qualitative and critical methodologies to look at how housing policy, politics and law create and alleviate inequalities in access to affordable, secure, and decent housing, with a focus on the rental sector. Sarah currently leads a strand of work on governance, wellbeing and public housing under an MBIE-funded research programme examining the maximisation of wellbeing in public housing.

Sarah is available to supervise Masters and PhD students in similar areas of research.

Sarah is available to supervise Master's and PhD students in similar areas of research.

 

Key publications

  1. Ombler J Jiang T Fraser B Nelson J McMinn C Hawkes K Atatoa-Carr P Pehi T Aspinall C Bierre S Schick K Howden-Chapman P Pierse N
    2024
    Five-Year Post-Housing Outcomes for a Housing First Cohort in Aotearoa, New Zealand
    International Journal on Homelessness 2024; 4(1).

    Abstract

  3. Howden-Chapman P Crane J Keall M Pierse N Baker MG Cunningham C Amore K Aspinall C Bennett J Bierre S Boulic M Chapman R Chisholm E Davies C Fougere G Fraser B
    2023
    He Kāinga Oranga: reflections on 25 years of measuring the improved health, wellbeing and sustainability of healthier housing
    Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
    Volume 54, 2024
  4. Toy-Cronin, B.
    Bierre, S.
    (2022).
    Sustaining Tenancies or Swift Evictions: Rent Arrears in the Tenancy Tribunal
    Victoria University of Wellington Law Review
    53(1), 105–128.
    Abstract

    There is a contradiction at the centre of tenancy practice and policy.

  12. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Bierre, S.
    Cunningham, Chris
    (2013).
    Building Inequality
    In M. Rashbrook (Ed.), Inequality: A New Zealand Crisis.
    Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams Books.
  13. Bierre, S.
    (2008).
    Constructing housing quality, health, and private rental housing: a critical analysis (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy). University of Otago.
  14. Bierre, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    Signal, L.
    Cunningham, C.
    (2007).
    Institutional challenges in addressing healthy low-cost housing for all: learning from past policy.
    Social Policy Journal of New Zealand,
    30, 42-64.

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