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 work focuses on the different types of social knowledge used to identify and navigate trade-offs. I help communities negotiate collective ambitions, allocate costs, and account for their social responsibilities. I work predominantly at the mesoeconomic level, exploring how system rules and social norms shape what kinds of action are seen as possible.

I examine how experiences of bearing costs and negotiating sacrifice shape meaning in shared life. My research focuses on the role of credibility in the long-run distribution of who bears costs, connecting economic thought with psychoanalytic and social theory on violence, social change, cooperation, and pleasure.

How we describe the limits of ourselves, and our relationships to others and places, shapes the practices and patterns of belief that influence intuition and economic outcomes. I study how metis forged in alternative relational communities can both reinforce ideas of the autological self and contribute to genealogical practices conscious of interdependence. I am particularly interested in how these understandings shape shared life and interact with technocracy.