Amy Clair

Dr Amy Clair

Lecturer and Deputy Director, ACHR

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Amy Clair is a research-focused Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Housing Research. Her work focuses on the many ways that housing influences health.

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2023 - ongoing 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

  • Education
    Date Institution name Country Title
    University of York United Kingdom PhD Social Policy

  • Journals
    Year Citation
    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.
    DOI
    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.
    DOI Scopus8 WoS2 Europe PMC2
    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.
    DOI Scopus16 WoS7
    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.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS5 Europe PMC5
    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.
    DOI Scopus23 WoS4 Europe PMC4
    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.
    DOI Scopus70 WoS29
    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.
    DOI Scopus10 WoS7
    2019 Clair, A., & Hughes, A. (2019). Housing and health: new evidence using biomarker data. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 73(3), 256-262.
    DOI Scopus44 WoS31 Europe PMC18
    2019 Clair, A. (2019). Housing: an Under-Explored Influence on Children’s Well-Being and Becoming. Child Indicators Research, 12(2), 609-626.
    DOI Scopus50 WoS33
    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.
    DOI Scopus17 WoS12 Europe PMC6
    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.
    DOI Scopus67 WoS48 Europe PMC34
    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.
    DOI Scopus38 WoS29 Europe PMC10
    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.
    DOI Scopus63 WoS53 Europe PMC23
    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.
    DOI
    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.
    DOI Scopus16 WoS10 Europe PMC3
    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.
    DOI Scopus62 WoS51 Europe PMC46
    2014 Klocke, A., Clair, A., & Bradshaw, J. (2014). International variation in child subjective well-being. Child Indicators Research, 7(1), 1-20.
    DOI Scopus100 WoS88
    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.
    DOI Scopus36 WoS30

  • Books
    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.
    Scopus4

  • Book Chapters
    Year Citation
    2015 Clair, A. (2015). Conceptualising child versus adult well-being: Schooling and employment. In G. Schweiger, & G. Graf (Eds.), The Well-Being of Children: Philosophical and Social Scientific Approaches (pp. 98-112). DE GRUYTER OPEN LTD.
    DOI
    - Baker, E., Daniels, L., Pawson, H., Baddeley, M., Vij, A., Stephens, M., . . . Jacobs, K. (n.d.). Rental Insights A COVID-19 Collection. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI).
    DOI

Amy teaches Cities and Housing, and co-teaches Sustainable Cities and Cities and Sustainability.

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2024 Co-Supervisor Diversification of Housing Tenure in Australia: Beyond Home Ownership and Rental Dominance Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Miss Karri Rushworth-Nott
    2024 Co-Supervisor Putting spatial dynamics in housing equality: the polarisation of wealth through the housing market Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Miss Kira Page
  • Position: Lecturer and Deputy Director, ACHR
  • Phone: 83133608
  • Email: amy.clair@adelaide.edu.au
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Napier, floor Fourth Floor
  • Org Unit: Australian Centre for Housing Research
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