Jaimie Monk

Jaimie is a Fellow at Motu Research and Research Lead at the Home Foundation.

She has a PhD in Public Policy from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. Her research focuses on family wellbeing, housing, child poverty, and children’s technology use in Aotearoa. She is passionate about developing high-quality quantitative evidence that is valuable for policy design and much of her work uses longitudinal data from the Growing Up in New Zealand study. Her research is guided by an ecological approach which recognises children as anchored in their families and their wider communities.

In 2022 Jaimie was awarded the Jan Whitwell Prize for doctoral research by the New Zealand Association of Economists for work from her PhD thesis which addressed the effect of income on children’s behavioural development.