Dr Amy Clair
Lecturer and Deputy Director, ACHR
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 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.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 - ongoing | 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. Scopus6 WoS6 |
| 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. |
| 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. Scopus17 WoS16 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. Scopus10 WoS11 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 WoS36 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 WoS80 |
| 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 WoS46 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. Scopus80 WoS77 Europe PMC43 |
| 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. Scopus68 WoS66 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 co-teaches 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 |
| 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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