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 Senior Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Housing Research. Her work focuses on housing policies the many ways that housing influences health.

  • Appointments
    Date Position Institution name
    2025 - ongoing Senior Lecturer, Deputy Director University of Africa
    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

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

  • Journals
    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, 16 pages.
    DOI
    2025 Hashmi, R., Clair, A., & Baker, E. (2025). Understanding the Long-Term Effects of Energy Poverty on Mental Health.
    2025 Hashmi, R., Clair, A., & Baker, E. (2025). Energy Poverty and Mental Health Related Quality of Life Dimensions.
    2025 Hashmi, R., Clair, A., & Baker, E. (2025). Understanding the Drivers of Residential Energy Expenditure: A Novel Household Level Analysis Using Panel Regression Models.
    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.
    DOI Scopus3
    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 Scopus13 WoS2 Europe PMC8
    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 Scopus30 WoS5 Europe PMC9
    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 Scopus30 WoS4 Europe PMC7
    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 Scopus18 WoS7
    2019 Clair, A. (2019). Housing: an Under-Explored Influence on Children’s Well-Being and Becoming. Child Indicators Research, 12(2), 609-626.
    DOI Scopus60 WoS33
    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 Scopus86 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 Scopus47 WoS31 Europe PMC23
    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 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.
    DOI Scopus75 WoS48 Europe PMC39
    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 Scopus40 WoS29 Europe PMC16
    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 Scopus65 WoS53 Europe PMC28
    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 Scopus17 WoS10 Europe PMC4
    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 PMC55
    2014 Klocke, A., Clair, A., & Bradshaw, J. (2014). International variation in child subjective well-being. Child Indicators Research, 7(1), 1-20.
    DOI Scopus103 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 Scopus39 WoS30
    - McAleavey, D., O'Gorman, R., & Clair, A. (n.d.). Why Maintenance Matters: Disorder in the Built Environment and Physical Health. Human Ethology, 40(1).
    DOI

  • 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.
    Scopus5

  • Book Chapters
    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. (n.d.). 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 co-teaches Sustainable Cities (postgraduate) and Cities and Sustainability (undergraduate).

  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
    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
    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 Principal 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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