SOME THINGS, BUT NOT ALL THE THINGS
Education:
2005-2009: PhD ‘Finding value on a council estate: complex lives, motherhood, and exclusion’: School of Sociology and Social policy, University of Nottingham
Examiners: Professor Gillian Paschal and Professor Beverley Skeggs
Supervisors: Dr Tony Fitzpatrick and Dr David Parker
2004-2005: Masters Degree in Research Methods, University of Nottingham
2001- 2004: B.A Sociology and Social Policy Joint Honours
Current Position:
2017-Present Lecturer in Practical Sociology
Middlesex University, Hendon, London
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Publications:
Journal articles
Mckenzie L. (2017) Thrown Under the Brexit Bus: Invisible class politics in the de-industrialised East Midlands British Journal of Sociology Publication October 2017
Mckenzie L. (2017) ‘Its Not Ideal’ The Politics of Working Class Brexit in Competition and Change Sage Publication June 2017
Mckenzie L. (2013) Narratives from a Nottingham council estate: A story of white working class mothers with mixed-race children Ethnic and Racial Studies Publication May 2013.
Mckenzie L. (2013) Foxtrotting the Riot: The slow rioting in Britain’s Inner City Sociological Research Online Special Issue: Collisions, Coalitions and Riotous Subjects: Reflections and Repercussions.
Mckenzie L. (2012) Narratives from the inside: re-studying St Anns in Nottingham, Sociological Review Vol. (3), August 2012 457-476 Oxford: Blackwell
Books
Mckenzie L. (In Press Oct.2017) Grieving for London: Class politics in a global city . Policy Press
Mckenzie L. (2015) Getting by in Broken Britain: Austerity, Class, and Estates,
Policy Press
Mckenzie L. (2017) Value and Strengthening Community in Promoting social justice in a world falling apart Edited by Atkinson R, Mckenzie L. Winlow S. Policy Press
Chapters in Edited Books
Mckenzie L. (2017) The British Working Class Post Blair in The anthology of Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century edited by Wayne M., O’ Neil D. Brill Publications UK
Mckenzie L. (2015) Narrative, Ethnography and Class Inequality: Taking Bourdieu into a British council estate, in Bourdieu: The Next Generation Edited by Abrahams J., Ingram N., Thatcher J.: Routledge
Mckenzie L. (2012) Finding value on a council estate: Voices of white working mothers with mixed-race children in St Anns, Nottingham in International perspectives on racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing Edited by Edwards R, Ali S, Caballero C, Song M: Routledge:
Mckenzie L. (2012) The stigmatised and de-valued working class: the state of a council estate in Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering edited by Atkinson W. Roberts S. Savage M. Palgrave
Policy Briefs
Social Policy Reforms in the EU- A Cross National Comparison (Eds Milio S. Stuchlik A.) Mckenzie L. Poverty Definition and Discussion pp.15-24 Bertelsmann Foundation
Other Publications (Selected):
Brexit is the only way the working class can change anything June 15th 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/15/brexit-working-class-sick-racist-eu-referendum
Poor women have never had ‘privacy’. So why should those who bank offshore? April 19th 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/19/working-class-women-privacy-tax-havens
The refugee crisis will hit the UK’s working class areas hardest September 16th 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/16/refugee-crisis-hit-uk-working-class-powerless
Discover Society: May 2015 Learning from Activists
http://www.discoversociety.org/2015/04/01/learning-from-activists/
Why I have to stand against Iain Duncan Smith in the general election The Guardian April 8th 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/08/iain-duncan-smith-general-election-lisa-mckenzie-class-war
The estate we’re in: how working class people became the ‘problem’ The Guardian 21st January 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jan/21/estate-working-class-problem-st-anns-nottingham