Sarah Sinclair

Dr. Sarah Sinclair

Senior Lecturer

Details

  • College: Economics Finance & Marketing
  • Department: Economics Finance & Marketing
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • sarah.sinclair@rmit.edu.au

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

  • 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
  • Essays on Housing Affordability and Housing Quality Dilemmas in Vietnam
  • 1 Jan 2017
  • 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
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