I work with organisations and policy teams across Aotearoa New Zealand on policy mixes affecting housing, infrastructure, social cohesion, and climate-related economic challenges.

My focus is on the frameworks used for identifying and navigating trade-offs, helping communities and institutions negotiate collective ambitions, allocate costs, and account for social responsibilities. I work predominantly in the mesoeconomic layer, exploring how the rules of a system and the norms of people within it change the type of actions which are seen as possible.

I focus on how experiences of wearing costs and negotiating sacrifice shape the possibilities and norms of economic and social life. I think about the role of credibility in the distribution of who bears costs, connecting economic thought with psychoanalytic and social theory on violence and pleasure.

I study how the practices, values, and relationships forged in alternative communities shape ideas about collective governance and land ethics, to show how experiences of emotion, interpersonal justice, and archetypes of individual success shape public life.