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Sociologist in New Zealand

Kay Saville-SmithMNZM
Saville-Smith in 2024
AwardsDame Joan Metge Medal, Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Canterbury, University of Lancaster
Theses
Academic work
InstitutionsCentre for Research, Evaluation, and Social Assessment

Katherine Julie Saville-Smith MNZM (known as Kay) is a New Zealand sociologist, specialising in issues related to housing. In 2018 Saville-Smith was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to seniors and housing. In 2024 the Royal Society Te Apārangi awarded Saville-Smith the Metge Medal.

Academic career

Saville-Smith completed a master's degree at the University of Canterbury in 1982, followed by a PhD titled Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829: gentry and middling provincial families seeking success at the University of Lancaster in 2016. Her doctoral research was inspired by family connections in Cumbria, but also by the loss of archival sources on her first study choice, the decline of the region's iron industry. In 2018 Boydell Press published a book Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829 based on Saville-Smith's doctoral research.

Saville-Smith is a sociologist, and has researched housing in New Zealand for thirty years. Since 1994 she has been director of the Centre for Research, Evaluation and Social Assessment (Cresa). Saville-Smith is interested in ways to enable better planning, building and adaptation of housing. Her research has covered issues such as housing needs and condition, accessibility, leaky homes, fuel poverty, the repair and maintenance of houses, community resilience, and retirement villages.

Saville-Smith has led research in both the Ageing Well and the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenges. She has served on ministerial advisory committees relating to warm homes and house prices, and is a trustee of the Marlborough Sustainable Housing Trust.

Honours and awards

In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, Saville-Smith was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to seniors and housing. In 2024 the Royal Society Te Apārangi awarded Saville-Smith the Metge Medal, for "her work at the forefront of New Zealand housing research, working with communities, government, and private and public sectors".

Selected works

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References

  1. Saville-Smith, Katherine J. (1982). Reproducers and producers: a model for the analysis of women (Master's thesis). University of Canterbury.
  2. Saville-Smith, Katherine Julie (2016). Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829: gentry and middling provincial families seeking success (PhD thesis). University of Lancaster.
  3. Saville-Smith, Kay (17 September 2018). "Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829". Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
  4. Hutková, Karolina (17 November 2021). "Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829: by K. J. Saville-Smith, Boydell Press, 2018, xvi + 296 pp. ISBN 9781783272815". Business History. 63 (8): 1475–1476. doi:10.1080/00076791.2020.1766208. ISSN 0007-6791.
  5. Mcaleer, John (3 April 2019). "Provincial Society and Empire: the Cumbrian counties and the East Indies, 1680–1829". Social History. 44 (2): 258–260. doi:10.1080/03071022.2019.1583860. ISSN 0307-1022.
  6. ^ "2024 Metge Medal: Decades of dedication to housing research and development". Royal Society Te Apārangi. Retrieved 28 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Queen's Birthday Honours 2018 - Citations for Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit | Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC)". www.dpmc.govt.nz. 4 June 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2024.

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Recipients of the Metge Medal of the Royal Society Te Apārangi
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