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. Scopus14 WoS13 |
| 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. WoS1 |
| 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. |
| 2025 | Lang, M., Clair, A., Page, K., Bonar, G., & Newman, J. (2025). Insights into short-term rental accommodation: history, statistics and landlord perspectives. Ahuri Final Report, (451), 1-90. |
| 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. Scopus27 WoS23 Europe PMC14 |
| 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. Scopus32 WoS29 Europe PMC16 |
| 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. Scopus21 WoS18 |
| 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. Scopus43 WoS44 Europe PMC22 |
| 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. Scopus50 WoS45 Europe PMC14 |
| 2019 | Clair, A. (2019). Housing: an Under-Explored Influence on Children’s Well-Being and Becoming. Child Indicators Research, 12(2), 609-626. Scopus75 WoS66 |
| 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. Scopus118 WoS100 |
| 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. Scopus13 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. Scopus56 WoS52 Europe PMC30 |
| 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. Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC9 |
| 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. Scopus87 WoS83 Europe PMC46 |
| 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. Scopus46 WoS41 Europe PMC20 |
| 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. Scopus75 WoS73 Europe PMC38 |
| 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. Scopus24 WoS20 Europe PMC9 |
| 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. Scopus71 WoS62 Europe PMC67 |
| 2014 | Klocke, A., Clair, A., & Bradshaw, J. (2014). International variation in child subjective well-being. Child Indicators Research, 7(1), 1-20. Scopus111 WoS102 |
| 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. Scopus44 WoS39 |
| - | 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. Scopus9 |
| 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 |
| - | 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 |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| - | Baum, F., Musolino, C., Baker, E., Clair, A., & Barrett, B. (n.d.). Health Equity Learning Lab Oz (HELLO) webinar on housing as a social determinant of health | August 2024. 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) in the Geography department.
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Adapting to a Post-homeownership Future: Rentvesting as a New Housing Pathway | 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 Nguyen |
| 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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