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

  2. Fraser B Aspinall C Chisholm E Ombler J Bierre S Telfar-Barnard L Johnson E Howden-Chapman P
    2024
    A Snapshot of a Fragmented Landscape: Homelessness Law and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
    Chris Bevan (ed). Global Perspectives on Homelessness Law & Policy, Routledge, 2024
    10.4324/9781003274056-35
  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.

  5. Chisholm, E.
    Bierre, S.
    Davies, C.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2021).
    'That house was a home': Qualitative evidence from New Zealand on the connections between rental housing eviction and poor health outcomes.
    Health Promotion Journal of Australia,
    Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/hpja.526
  6. Bierre, S.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2017).
    Telling stories: The role of narratives in rental housing policy change in New Zealand.
    Housing Studies,
    35(1), 29-49. doi: 10.1080/02673037.2017.1363379
  7. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Chisholm, E.
    Telfar-Barnard, L.
    Viggers, H.
    O'Sullivan, K.
    Bennett, J.
    Bierre, S.
    Preval, N.
    Tiatia, R.
    Ombler, J.
    Amore, K.
    Rivera-Muñoz, G. Davies, C.
    Aspinall, C.
    Oliver, J.
    Baker, M.
    Keall, M.
    Crane, J.
    Pierse, N.
    (2017).
    Housing, energy and health in resilient cities.
    Cities in New Zealand: Preferences, patterns and possibilities,
    Howden-Chapman, L. Early & J. Ombler (Eds.), (pp. 95-106). Wellington, New Zealand: Steele Roberts Aotearoa.
  8. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Chisholm, E.
    Bierre, S.
    et al.
    (2016).
    Submission on the Healthy Homes Amendment Bill (No. 2).
    He Kāinga Oranga - Housing and Health Research Programme, Wellington.
    Download document
    Healthy-Homes-Guarantee-Bill-submission-HHRP-20-6-2016.pdf
  9. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Bierre, S.
    et al.
    (2016).
    Submission on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.
    He Kāinga Oranga - Housing and Health Research Programme, Wellington.
    Download document
    Submission on the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.pdf
  10. Howden-Chapman, P.
    Amore, K.
    Bierre, S.
    Chisholm, E.
    Hamer-Adams, A.
    Ombler, J.
    O'Sullivan, K.
    (2015).
    What Effect Will the 2015 Budget Have on Housing?
    Policy Quarterly,
    11 (3): 13–19.
  11. Bierre, S.
    Bennett, M.J.
    Howden-Chapman, P.
    (2014).
    Decent Expectations? The Use and Interpretation of Housing Standards in Tenancy Tribunals in New Zealand.
    New Zealand Universities Law Review,
    26 (2), 153-185.
  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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