Kimberley Clare O’sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4220133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kimberley Clare O’sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kimberley Clare |
| FAMILY NAME | O’sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | O’SULLIVAN K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2240-5901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Disabled children’s capabilities in housing
This study aimed to explore how housing can be an enabler or barrier to disabled children’s capabilities through a mixed-methods survey of parents and guardians in Aotearoa New Zealand. In multiple choice responses, many participants reported adverse housing experiences relating to their child’s disability, including leaving a house because it was unsafe. The majority of participants agreed that their housing impacted their children’s ability to …
Heating up, cooling off
We explored the experiences of summer indoor overheating and summer cooling behaviours in Aotearoa New Zealand using a postal survey. Limited research has engaged with New Zealander's cooling behaviours due to a temperate climate. However, poor thermal dwelling quality and climate warming mean that summer indoor overheating is possibly an emerging problem. The survey was carried out between December 2021 and February 2022, with 641 respondents in…
What About the Kids? Identifying Children in the Housing Support System in Aotearoa, New Zealand
In Aotearoa New Zealand (henceforth referred to as Aotearoa) a range of housing supports are aimed at improving homeownership rates and making both private rental and public housing more available. Despite these “supports”, a large number of children, adolescents and young people are experiencing housing insecurity or severe housing deprivation. Housing intersects with health, education, state care and welfare to influence a range of outcomes for…
Working With Community Research Partners to Undertake Sensitive Public Health Interviews
Qualitative research interviews are invaluable in understanding participants' experiences within public health systems and driving systemic change. These interviews can be sensitive in nature, particularly when exploring how certain groups are failed by systems. Considering this, it is crucial to conduct interviews in a way that prioritises the psychological safety of both participants and interviewers. While there is extensive literature theoret…
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Staying cool at home
Drawing on results from a novel online qualitative survey, we explore the experiences of disabled people residing in Aotearoa New Zealand during the summer months, considering how individuals manage home temperature, how well their dwellings support their thermal needs, and any barriers to preferred cooling practices. Disabled people are disproportionately impacted by climate change, while at the same time facing poor quality, inaccessible and in…
A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments
Significant effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa), including rapid investment in public and community housing. As Māori (the Indigenous people of Aotearoa) face many systemic barriers and impediments to home ownership, delivery and development of housing options and make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants, developing and managing housing and associated neighbourhoods that enable and…
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Inclusive and collective urban home spaces
Housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Response to Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD). • Wellbeing benefits of collectively-oriented housing and transport models. • Co-housing and papakāinga as transformational housing typologies. • Multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes
The experience of energy poverty among young adults living in subdivided units in Hong Kong
Energy poverty, or the inability to purchase or access enough household energy to achieve required domestic energy services, including maintaining healthy indoor temperatures, is increasingly recognized as a determinant of environmental health straddling multiple policy domains. Housing and energy poverty are closely linked by shared key drivers, and contribute significantly to growing global health problems against the backdrop of a rapidly chan…
Energy poverty in Canada
Baby it's hot outside
Beyond home
Using Twitter to Explore (un)Healthy Housing
While increasingly used for research, Twitter remains largely untapped as a source of data about housing. We explore the growth of social media and use of Twitter in health and social research, and question why housing researchers have avoided using Twitter to explore housing issues to date. We use the #characterbuildings campaign, initiated by an online media platform in New Zealand in 2014 to illustrate that Twitter can provide insights into ho…
Cool? Young people investigate living in cold housing and fuel poverty. A mixed methods action research study
The integrated results confirm that cold housing and risk of fuel poverty are important problems for young people in New Zealand. Results contribute to the evidence-base for policy targeting of schemes such as the Government-sponsored retrofitting of insulation to households with dependent children
Heating practices and self-disconnection among electricity prepayment meter consumers in New Zealand
Fuel poverty, policy, and equity in New Zealand
The influence of electricity prepayment meter use on household energy behaviour
Tackling cold housing and fuel poverty in New Zealand
Death by disconnection
Determinants of population health such as fuel poverty (inability to afford adequate household temperatures) are difficult to highlight in the media. In this paper we analyse newspaper reports of the death of a Pacific migrant, Mrs Muliaga, who could not afford her electricity bill, and reflect on using individual cases to highlight the importance of the social determinants of health, such as fuel poverty. We undertook a thematic analysis of 368 …
Fuel poverty, policy, and equity in New Zealand
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Energy poverty in Canada
Heating practices and self-disconnection among electricity prepayment meter consumers in New Zealand
Death by disconnection
Determinants of population health such as fuel poverty (inability to afford adequate household temperatures) are difficult to highlight in the media. In this paper we analyse newspaper reports of the death of a Pacific migrant, Mrs Muliaga, who could not afford her electricity bill, and reflect on using individual cases to highlight the importance of the social determinants of health, such as fuel poverty. We undertook a thematic analysis of 368 …
A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments
Significant effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa), including rapid investment in public and community housing. As Māori (the Indigenous people of Aotearoa) face many systemic barriers and impediments to home ownership, delivery and development of housing options and make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants, developing and managing housing and associated neighbourhoods that enable and…
Baby it's hot outside
Beyond home
What About the Kids? Identifying Children in the Housing Support System in Aotearoa, New Zealand
In Aotearoa New Zealand (henceforth referred to as Aotearoa) a range of housing supports are aimed at improving homeownership rates and making both private rental and public housing more available. Despite these “supports”, a large number of children, adolescents and young people are experiencing housing insecurity or severe housing deprivation. Housing intersects with health, education, state care and welfare to influence a range of outcomes for…
Working With Community Research Partners to Undertake Sensitive Public Health Interviews
Qualitative research interviews are invaluable in understanding participants' experiences within public health systems and driving systemic change. These interviews can be sensitive in nature, particularly when exploring how certain groups are failed by systems. Considering this, it is crucial to conduct interviews in a way that prioritises the psychological safety of both participants and interviewers. While there is extensive literature theoret…
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Tackling cold housing and fuel poverty in New Zealand
Death by disconnection
Determinants of population health such as fuel poverty (inability to afford adequate household temperatures) are difficult to highlight in the media. In this paper we analyse newspaper reports of the death of a Pacific migrant, Mrs Muliaga, who could not afford her electricity bill, and reflect on using individual cases to highlight the importance of the social determinants of health, such as fuel poverty. We undertook a thematic analysis of 368 …
The influence of electricity prepayment meter use on household energy behaviour
Fuel poverty, policy, and equity in New Zealand
Cool? Young people investigate living in cold housing and fuel poverty. A mixed methods action research study
The integrated results confirm that cold housing and risk of fuel poverty are important problems for young people in New Zealand. Results contribute to the evidence-base for policy targeting of schemes such as the Government-sponsored retrofitting of insulation to households with dependent children
Heating practices and self-disconnection among electricity prepayment meter consumers in New Zealand
Using Twitter to Explore (un)Healthy Housing
While increasingly used for research, Twitter remains largely untapped as a source of data about housing. We explore the growth of social media and use of Twitter in health and social research, and question why housing researchers have avoided using Twitter to explore housing issues to date. We use the #characterbuildings campaign, initiated by an online media platform in New Zealand in 2014 to illustrate that Twitter can provide insights into ho…
Baby it's hot outside
Beyond home
The experience of energy poverty among young adults living in subdivided units in Hong Kong
Energy poverty, or the inability to purchase or access enough household energy to achieve required domestic energy services, including maintaining healthy indoor temperatures, is increasingly recognized as a determinant of environmental health straddling multiple policy domains. Housing and energy poverty are closely linked by shared key drivers, and contribute significantly to growing global health problems against the backdrop of a rapidly chan…
Energy poverty in Canada
Inclusive and collective urban home spaces
Housing and urban development in Aotearoa New Zealand. • Response to Government Policy Statement on Housing and Urban Development (GPS-HUD). • Wellbeing benefits of collectively-oriented housing and transport models. • Co-housing and papakāinga as transformational housing typologies. • Multi-year and multi-scale community-based research programmes
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Energy poverty and well-being at the local level
Staying cool at home
Drawing on results from a novel online qualitative survey, we explore the experiences of disabled people residing in Aotearoa New Zealand during the summer months, considering how individuals manage home temperature, how well their dwellings support their thermal needs, and any barriers to preferred cooling practices. Disabled people are disproportionately impacted by climate change, while at the same time facing poor quality, inaccessible and in…
A Whakawhanaungatanga Māori wellbeing model for housing and urban environments
Significant effort is underway to address the housing crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa), including rapid investment in public and community housing. As Māori (the Indigenous people of Aotearoa) face many systemic barriers and impediments to home ownership, delivery and development of housing options and make up a significant proportion of public housing tenants, developing and managing housing and associated neighbourhoods that enable and…
Heating up, cooling off
We explored the experiences of summer indoor overheating and summer cooling behaviours in Aotearoa New Zealand using a postal survey. Limited research has engaged with New Zealander's cooling behaviours due to a temperate climate. However, poor thermal dwelling quality and climate warming mean that summer indoor overheating is possibly an emerging problem. The survey was carried out between December 2021 and February 2022, with 641 respondents in…
What About the Kids? Identifying Children in the Housing Support System in Aotearoa, New Zealand
In Aotearoa New Zealand (henceforth referred to as Aotearoa) a range of housing supports are aimed at improving homeownership rates and making both private rental and public housing more available. Despite these “supports”, a large number of children, adolescents and young people are experiencing housing insecurity or severe housing deprivation. Housing intersects with health, education, state care and welfare to influence a range of outcomes for…
Working With Community Research Partners to Undertake Sensitive Public Health Interviews
Qualitative research interviews are invaluable in understanding participants' experiences within public health systems and driving systemic change. These interviews can be sensitive in nature, particularly when exploring how certain groups are failed by systems. Considering this, it is crucial to conduct interviews in a way that prioritises the psychological safety of both participants and interviewers. While there is extensive literature theoret…
Disabled children’s capabilities in housing
This study aimed to explore how housing can be an enabler or barrier to disabled children’s capabilities through a mixed-methods survey of parents and guardians in Aotearoa New Zealand. In multiple choice responses, many participants reported adverse housing experiences relating to their child’s disability, including leaving a house because it was unsafe. The majority of participants agreed that their housing impacted their children’s ability to …
Economics (14 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Poverty (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Energy poverty (7 works)