Profile

Thesis supervisor

• Professor Kathleen Kiernan

Research topic

Education policy and child well-being: a comparison of OECD nations

Summary of thesis

This research intends to investigate the links between education policy and child well-being (both objective and subjective) utilising a range of national and international quantitative datasets.

Research interests

• Education policy
• Well-being
• Comparative social policy
• Quantitative research methods

Brief biography

I joined the department as an undergraduate in 2007, completing a BA(Hons) in Applied Social Science. In 2010 I was awarded an ESRC 1+3 Open Competition studentship to study for an MRes (completed in 2011, awaiting results) and PhD in Social Policy. My MRes dissertation focused on the relationship between the subjective well-being of children and their parents.

Teaching

I am a seminar leader for the undergraduate module 'Introducing Social Policy' and a demonstrator on the masters module 'Advanced Quantitative Methods'.

Publications

Conferences

Clair, A. (2011) Investigating the relationship between parent and child subjective well-being in Great Britain, presented at the 3rd Conference of the International Society for Child Indicators, University of York, 27th – 29th July 2011.