Robert Sourell
Intern 2004
Robert Sourell worked as a student intern from August 2004 to December 2004. In 2002 he gained a Graduate Diploma of Commerce from Victoria University of Wellington. He finished a double Master’s degree in Civil/Construction Engineering and Business Administration in February 2005.
His work at Motu included studying the relationship between house prices and rents; focusing on the modelling of life cycle spending behaviour of individuals on housing services and factors that influence their decisions.
Publications
- Grimes, Arthur; Robert Sourell and Andrew Aitken. 2005. "Regional Variation in Rental Costs For Larger Households," Motu Working Paper 05-02.
- Grimes, Arthur; Suzi Kerr, Andrew Aitken and Robert Sourell. 2006. "The Housing Fulcrum: Balancing Economic and Social Factors in Housing Research and Policy," Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, 1, pp. 65-79.