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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

CV: Publications
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