Dr. Sarah Sinclair
Associate Professor
Details
Department: Economics Finance & Marketing
Campus: City Campus Australia
sarah.sinclair@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0002-7143-387X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Research Projects and Funding:
Current projects:
- NowCasting using Pedestrian Counts
- Fertility Decisionmaking
- Property Developers sustainability Decisionmaking - How does Green finance impact green investment
- Digital platforms and residential location choice
- Supporting Ageing well at home
Funded projects
2022
- AHURI Data Project: Gendered housing opportunities and impacts
- CSIRO Data61 NGETGP: Developing Digital Capabilities to Support the Aged Care Sector (70-NGET-R2).
- Strata Communities Victoria: Research towards developing a pre-VCAT consumer agency akin to an "ombudsman office".
- Victorian Government: Digital Inclusion in Victoria – Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions
- REIA/REINZ: Exploring blockchain opportunities in the real estate sector
2021
- Preventing Financial Abuse of Women: Safety by Design Principles – with Swinburne University
- National Measurement Institute: Exploring blockchain implications for NMI – $10,000.
2020
- Reverse Mortgages and Ageing in Place: Research for Australian Senior Finance (Heartland)
- Good Housing Design: Research for Longevity Group Australia
2018
- Age-Appropriate Housing Stock: Research for Longevity Group Australia
2016
- Poverty Reduction for Single Parents: Role of family payments and child support. La Trobe University.
2015
- Housing Policy for Economic Productivity: Multilevel governance and spatial perspective (AHURI) – $87,904.
- Social and Economic Value of Community Playgroups: Research for Playgroup Australia Limited – $36,916.
Key Activities:
Blockchain Enabled Business Major manager
Course Co ordinator: ECON1349 - The blockchain Economy
Supervisor projects
- Essays on the Effects of Food Prices, Economic Shocks, and Women's Economic Agency on Child Development in Ethiopia
- 22 Nov 2024
- Unravelling the Trichotomy of Financial Inclusion in Pakistan: Traditional, Digital, and CBDC Perspective
- 26 Jul 2022
- Potential Applications of Blockchain Technology in Finance
- 30 Jun 2022
- Using Home Equity to Age in Place
- 11 Feb 2020
- Gender Preference at Birth (GPB): A New Measure for Son Preference and its Implications for Outcomes in Fertility and Poverty in Pakistan
- 29 Aug 2016
Teaching interests
Economics assessment of policy: Health, Demography, Education, Child support and housing
Research interests
Economic policy analysis; Family economics; Economic demography: in particular structural ageing and fertility choice; Economic geography: Housing
Labour supply decision making; Child support; Multivariate time series modelling
Labour supply decision making; Child support; Multivariate time series modelling
