Amy Clair

Amy Clair

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics


Amy Clair is a researcher in the Australian Centre for Housing Research. Her work focuses on the many ways that housing influences health as part of the complexity stream of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Healthy Housing.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2021 - ongoing 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
    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 Scopus2 WoS3
    2022 Clair, A., & Baker, E. (2022). Cold homes and mental health harm: Evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Social Science and Medicine, 314, 115461-1-115461-11.
    DOI Scopus4
    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 Scopus6 WoS4
    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 Scopus31 WoS24
    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 Scopus7
    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 Scopus28 Europe PMC11
    2019 Clair, A. (2019). Housing: an Under-Explored Influence on Children’s Well-Being and Becoming. Child Indicators Research, 12(2), 609-626.
    DOI Scopus34 WoS31
    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 Scopus11 Europe PMC4
    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 Scopus47 WoS44 Europe PMC26
    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 Scopus30 WoS26 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 Scopus52 WoS50 Europe PMC22
    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 Scopus12 Europe PMC2
    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 Scopus57 WoS51 Europe PMC38
    2014 Klocke, A., Clair, A., & Bradshaw, J. (2014). International variation in child subjective well-being. Child Indicators Research, 7(1), 1-20.
    DOI Scopus81 WoS85
    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 Scopus31 WoS30
  • Books

    Year Citation
    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.
    Scopus2
  • 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).
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