Clare is a research fellow and is in the final stages of a PhD, her thesis is titled The Evolution of Housing First in Aotearoa New Zealand: A Renegotiation of Relationships. She works in the governance strand of the Public Housing and Urban Regeneration: maximising wellbeing research programme. The research aims to understand the effect of public housing governance on aspects of tenant and community wellbeing, and urban regeneration. Clare's work involves liaising for the programme leads and strands with Dwell Housing Trust, Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust, and Community Housing Aotearoa. She also works on the Housing Children and Youth: Ensuring Aotearoa's future gets the best start possible research programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.
Clare’s research consists of qualitative methods, such as case studies, key informant interviews, document reviews, grounded theory, case comparison, and thematic analysis to gather and analyse data and develop study findings. She is also interested in how systems theory and systems change theory apply to homelessness.
Clare has research interests in homelessness, housing adequacy and equity, emergency and temporary housing, and effective ways to address and prevent homelessness in Aotearoa, New Zealand.
She was the Vice-Chair of Dwell Housing Trust and has 16 years of governance experience in the community housing sector. She worked as a research assistant on a study led by Jenny Ombler ‘The Right to Housing in Aotearoa’, to identify and develop pathways for realising the right to housing in Aotearoa.
For her Master's of Public Health Clare researched boarding houses in the Wellington region. Anyone can live in a boarding house, can’t they? The advantages and disadvantages of boarding houses