Senior Lecturer in Sociology

As a researcher and an educator I am keen to develop research proposals, community collaborations and student projects focusing upon class inequality using a collaborative ethnographic approach. I am particularly interested in how research, teaching and community engagement can collaborate in paradigms of social justice through the use of higher education, and innovative research methodology.

My research interests are the continuation and development of research proposals focusing upon class inequality and council estates within the UK. This especially relates to those communities who are presently living through a period of adversity, as the consequences of the UK’s austerity measures have major impacts upon public services, housing and welfare entitlements.

Qualifications

• PhD Sociology - University of Nottingham
• MA Research methods – University of Nottingham
• BSc Hons Sociology and Social Policy – University of Nottingham

Teaching Expertise

• 2019- Date – University of Durham – Assistant Professor
• Convener of Undergraduate modules – Self and Identity – Community Placement Module
• Dissertation Supervisor
• Post-Graduate Supervisor Masters and PhD
• External Examiner: Limerick University Ireland Masters in Youth and Community Service.
• 2017-2019 Middlesex University: Lecturer in Practical Sociology
• Convener of 1^st Year Undergraduate Module ‘Doing Things Together’
• Convener of 3^rd Year Undergraduate module ‘Social Movements, Social Change’
• 2013- 2017: London School of Economics
• Convener of MSC Class, Politics, Culture
• Convener of PhD Working Group, teaching on Under-Graduate and Masters programmes
• 2005 -2013 : School of Sociology, University of Nottingham
• Lecturer in Sociology
• Under-graduate personal tutor, promoting and safeguarding the health welfare and safety of students
• 2008- 2010: Part time lecture and tutor School of Social sciences, The Nottingham Trent University: Collaborated with module convener in devising, and writing lectures for ‘Youth Transitions and Education’, wrote and gave four out of ten lectures, and lead weekly seminar groups.
• Part-Time Tutor; Access to Nursing, and Social Science at The Castle College Nottingham; Lecture, and teach sociology on the Access to Nursing course, marking essays, giving one to one tutorials. Lesson planning around the OCN guidelines for National Access Courses.

Research Interests

• Current Project: Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class – Interdisciplinary project funded through Kickstarter – self publishing a graphic novel working with a diverse team academics/non academics
• September 2017- 2018 Atlantic Fellowship at the Inequalities Institute: London School of Economics
• I –Revolt of the Rustbelt, comparisons of de-industrialisation UK and US.
• September 2013- September 2017 Fellowship on the Great British Class Survey: London School of Economics
• In-depth ethnographic study in East London focusing on precarity of working class lives through a small group of mothers facing eviction from their community, the consequences of inequality in a global city.
• September 2012- 2013 LLLight EU Project7. Research Fellowship, School of Education, University of Nottingham:
• European Union funded large research project focusing on the relationship between lifelong learning, higher education and successful European enterprises.
• September 2010-September 2012; Leverhulme Early Years Research Fellowship School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham:
• Council estate life: Belonging and Exclusion.
• Two year ethnographic study focusing upon displaced working class masculinities.
• 2004- to 2009: PhD; School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham:
• Finding Value on a Council Estate: Complex Lives, Motherhood and Exclusion.
• Three year ethnographic research doctoral studies with a focus on white working class motherhood to mixed race children. Questioning the role of stigmatisation of identity and community and inequality relating to class, race and gender.
• 2009-2010 Research Assistant to Dr Elisabetta Zontini, Identity Citizenship and
• Migration Centre, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham:
• Growing Old in a Trans-National Social Field: Elderly Italian Migrants in Nottingham.

External Roles

• External Examiner at University of Limerick
• Eternal Examiner at Bangor University

Publications

• Mckenzie L. (In Press published 2022) Class Cleansing: Class politics in a global city. Policy Press
• Mckenzie L. (2015) Getting by in Broken Britain: Austerity, Class, and Estates, Policy Press
• Mckenzie L. Atkinson, Winlow (Editors) (2017) Building Better Societies : Promoting Social Justice In a World Falling Apart
• Mckenzie L. (2019) The British class system is in great shape
• IPRR Progressive Review Vo 26, (3) pp. 230-237
• 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) The Rich, the rich, we have got to get rid of the rich, Clinical Psychology Forum September 2017 No. 29 (7)
• 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
• Mckenzie L. (2018) Resisting and surviving organised politics: The case of the London housing movement in Austerity and Working-Class Resistance:
• Survival, Disruption and Creation in Hard Times edited By Fishwick A. Connolly H. Roman and Littlefield
• 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
• 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

Contact Details

E: Lisa.McKenzie@beds.ac.uk