APrf Amy Clair
Senior Lecturer
School of Society and Culture
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Amy Clair is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Housing Research at Adelaide University. A quantitative social policy researcher, her work focuses on the impact of housing policies on health and well-being from a comparative perspective with particular focus on Australia and the UK. Recent work has explored the role of housing in achieving reproductive justice, the impact of cold homes on mental health, the conflicts and complements between sustainable and affordable housing, changes to financial support for renters, and the potential of biomarker measures for understanding the relationship between housing and health. Amy is also a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Micro-Social Change in the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 - ongoing | Associate Professor, Deputy Director | Adelaide University |
| 2025 - 2025 | Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director | University of Adelaide |
| 2023 - 2024 | Lecturer, Deputy Director | University of Adelaide |
| 2021 - 2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Adelaide |
| 2017 - 2021 | Research Fellow | University of Essex |
| 2014 - 2017 | Postdoctoral Researcher | University of Oxford |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of York | United Kingdom | PhD Social Policy |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Hashmi, R., Clair, A., & Baker, E. (2025). Unpacking the mental health effects of energy poverty – implications of energy poverty metric choice for research and policy. Energy Research and Social Science, 125, 104115. Scopus7 WoS7 |
| 2025 | Doyon, A., Moore, T., Davies, L., Dodson, J., Butler, D., Leigh-Rosenburgh, J., . . . Dorignon, L. (2025). The Housing We Need by 2050 for a Sustainable and Equitable Future. PLANNING THEORY & PRACTICE, 26(3), 423-453. |
| 2025 | Clair, A., Fledderjohann, J., Kitchen, K., & Patterson, S. (2025). Housing Policy and Reproductive Justice in the UK. Politics and Policy, 53(5), 20 pages. |
| 2024 | Clair, A., Baker, E., & Kumari, M. (2024). Are housing circumstances associated with faster epigenetic ageing?. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 78(1), 40-46. Scopus18 WoS18 Europe PMC12 |
| 2024 | Hock, E. S., Blank, L., Fairbrother, H., Clowes, M., Cuevas, D. C., Booth, A., . . . Goyder, E. (2024). Exploring the impact of housing insecurity on the health and wellbeing of children and young people in the United Kingdom: a qualitative systematic review. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2453-1-2453-37. Scopus12 WoS12 Europe PMC5 |
| 2022 | Mansour, A., Bentley, R., Baker, E., Li, A., Martino, E., Clair, A., . . . Howden-Chapman, P. (2022). Housing and health: an updated glossary. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 76(9), 833-838. Scopus34 WoS36 Europe PMC15 |
| 2022 | Clair, A., & Baker, E. (2022). Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Social Science and Medicine, 314, 1-11. Scopus41 WoS37 Europe PMC14 |
| 2022 | Clair, A. (2022). The effect of local housing allowance reductions on overcrowding in the private rented sector in England. International Journal of Housing Policy, 22(1), 119-137. Scopus20 WoS17 |
| 2019 | Clair, A. (2019). Housing: an Under-Explored Influence on Children’s Well-Being and Becoming. Child Indicators Research, 12(2), 609-626. Scopus65 WoS61 |
| 2019 | Clair, A., Reeves, A., McKee, M., & Stuckler, D. (2019). Constructing a housing precariousness measure for Europe. Journal of European Social Policy, 29(1), 13-28. Scopus96 WoS81 |
| 2019 | Clair, A., Fledderjohan, J., Lalor, D., & Loopstra, R. (2019). Housing Situations of Food Bank Users in Great Britain. Social Policy and Society, 19(1), 55-73. Scopus12 WoS9 |
| 2019 | Clair, A., & Hughes, A. (2019). Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 73(3), 256-262. Scopus52 WoS48 Europe PMC28 |
| 2018 | Clair, A., Madureira-Lima, J., Reeves, A., & Stuckler, D. (2018). The Great Recession and inequalities in access to health care: a study of unemployment and unmet medical need in Europe in the economic crisis. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47(1), 58-68. Scopus17 WoS16 Europe PMC7 |
| 2017 | McKee, M., Reeves, A., Clair, A., & Stuckler, D. (2017). Living on the edge: Precariousness and why it matters for health. Archives of Public Health, 75(1), 10 pages. Scopus81 WoS77 Europe PMC44 |
| 2016 | Clair, A., Reeves, A., Loopstra, R., McKee, M., Dorling, D., & Stuckler, D. (2016). The impact of the housing crisis on self-reported health in Europe: Multilevel longitudinal modelling of 27 EU countries. European Journal of Public Health, 26(5), 788-793. Scopus43 WoS38 Europe PMC19 |
| 2016 | Reeves, A., Clair, A., McKee, M., & Stuckler, D. (2016). Reductions in the United Kingdom's Government Housing Benefit and Symptoms of Depression in Low-Income Households. American Journal of Epidemiology, 184(6), 421-429. Scopus69 WoS67 Europe PMC36 |
| 2016 | Reeves, A., Clair, A., McKee, M., & Stuckler, D. (2016). Reeves et al. Respond to "harnessing Housing Natural Experiments". American Journal of Epidemiology, 184(6), 434-435. Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC1 |
| 2016 | Clair, A., Loopstra, R., Reeves, A., McKee, M., Dorling, D., & Stuckler, D. (2016). The impact of housing payment problems on health status during economic recession: A comparative analysis of longitudinal EU SILC data of 27 European states, 2008-2010. SSM - Population Health, 2, 306-316. Scopus18 WoS15 Europe PMC6 |
| 2015 | Arora, V. S., Karanikolos, M., Clair, A., Reeves, A., Stuckler, D., & McKee, M. (2015). Data Resource Profile: The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). International Journal of Epidemiology, 44(2), 451-461. Scopus64 WoS55 Europe PMC60 |
| 2014 | Klocke, A., Clair, A., & Bradshaw, J. (2014). International variation in child subjective well-being. Child Indicators Research, 7(1), 1-20. Scopus105 WoS98 |
| 2012 | Clair, A. (2012). The relationship between parent's subjective well-being and the life satisfaction of their children in Britain. Child Indicators Research, 5(4), 631-650. Scopus41 WoS37 |
| - | McAleavey, D., O'Gorman, R., & Clair, A. (2025). Why Maintenance Matters: Disorder in the Built Environment and Physical Health. Human Ethology, 40(1). |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Baker, E., & Morey, C. (Eds.) (2023). Our Housing Australia. Australia: Australian Centre for Housing Research. |
| 2021 | Clair, A., Fledderjohann, J., & Knowles, B. (2021). A Watershed Moment for Social Policy and Human Rights? Where next for the UK Post-COVID. United Kingdom: Bristol University Press. Scopus7 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2015 | Clair, A. (2015). Conceptualising child versus adult well-being: Schooling and employment. In G. Schweiger, & G. Graf (Eds.), Well Being of Children Philosophical and Social Scientific Approaches (pp. 98-112). DE GRUYTER OPEN LTD. DOI |
| 2015 | 6 Conceptualising Child versus Adult Well-Being: Schooling and Employment (2015). In The Well-Being of Children (pp. 98-112). De Gruyter Open Poland. DOI |
| - | Baker, E., Daniels, L., Pawson, H., Baddeley, M., Vij, A., Stephens, M., . . . Jacobs, K. (2020). Rental Insights A COVID-19 Collection. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI). DOI |
Recent grants include:
ARC Discovery: Forging the new Australian Dream in a Post-homeownership nation
AHURI National Research Programme 2025: Understanding the impact of children’s housing
circumstances in Australia: a data framework
AHURI National Research Programme 2024: Insights into Short Term Rental Accommodation: history, statistics and landlord perspectives
Amy teaches Cities and Housing (postgraduate), and previously co-taught Sustainable Cities (postgraduate) and Cities and Sustainability (undergraduate).
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | A Comparative Analysis of Social Housing Solutions | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Carl Trevor Douglas Grant |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Housing affordability for whom? How planning policies and regulations can support affordability in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Ms Kim Anh Le |
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Forging the new Australian Dream in a Post-homeownership nation | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Kira Page |
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | A Comparative Analysis of Social Housing Solutions | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Carl Trevor Douglas Grant |
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Forging the new Australian Dream in a Post-homeownership nation | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Kira Page |
| 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Housing affordability for whom? How planning policies and regulations can support affordability in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Ms Kim Anh Le |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Diversification of Housing Tenure in Australia: Beyond Home Ownership and Rental Dominance | Master of Philosophy | Master | Part Time | Miss Karri Rushworth-Nott |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Diversification of Housing Tenure in Australia: Beyond Home Ownership and Rental Dominance | Master of Philosophy | Master | Part Time | Miss Karri Rushworth-Nott |
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