Mary Jane Grove is a Research Assistant with the NZ Centre for Sustainable Cities and is a member of the Wellbeing Strand of the Public Housing and Urban Health research programme. She is undertaking a Master's of Urban and Regional Planning at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. She has an undergraduate degree in Environmental Management from the University of Otago.
She has recently completed her Master's thesis titled Wellbeing through housing: Public Renter subjective wellbeing outcomes relative to other forms of tenure in Aotearoa. Mary Jane will finish her Master's research whilst on a university exchange to Chile at the end of this year (2025).