Political Geographies of the City
Funding period: 1 October 2007 – 1 October 2010
Type of funding:
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Kim McKee is a Professor of Housing & Social Policy at the University of Stirling, where she is also Director of the CIH accredited postgraduate Housing Studies programme. Kim has longstanding interests in housing inequalities and community empowerment, which she first explored in her doctoral and postdoctoral research on tenant empowerment within Glasgow’s social housing sector. After completing her Urban Studies Fellowship at the University of Glasgow (mentored by Professor Ronan Paddison), she joined the University of St Andrews (2010-18), where she then became Director of the St Andrews’ Centre for Housing Research. Throughout her career, Kim has held numerous leadership roles in academic journals, learned societies, and external advisory boards.
As a postdoctoral fellow, Kim also received a Seedcorn Grant from the Urban Studies Foundation titled ‘Exploring the Meaning of Home and Tenure in the Intermediate Housing Market’ (2009), and funding for an early career symposium held in Glasgow on ‘Theorising Governance’ (2009).
Profile | Kim.mckee@stir.ac.uk
Fellowship Publications
Mckee, K. (2011). ‘Challenging the Norm? The “Ethopolitics” of Low-cost Homeownership in Scotland’, Urban Studies, 48/16: 3399–413. DOI: 10.1177/0042098010396238
Mckee, K. (2010). ‘Promoting Homeownership at the Margins: the experience of low-cost homeownership purchasers in regeneration areas’, People Place and Policy Online, 4/2: 38–49.
Mckee, K. (2009). ‘Regulating Scotland’s Social Landlords: Localised Resistance to Technologies of Performance Management’, Housing Studies, 24/2: 155–71. DOI: 10.1080/02673030802704345
Mckee, K. (2009). ‘Post-Foucauldian governmentality: What does it offer critical social policy analysis?’, Critical Social Policy, 29/3: 465–86. DOI: 10.1177/0261018309105180
McKee, K. (2009). ‘The “Responsible” Tenant and the Problem of Apathy’, Social Policy & Society, 8/1: 25–36. DOI: 10.1017/S1474746408004557
Mckee, K. (2009). ‘Empowering Glasgow’s Tenants through Community Ownership?’, Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 24/4: 299–309. DOI: 10.1080/02690940903026829
Mckee, K. (2008). ‘Transforming Scotland’s Public-sector Housing through Community Ownership: The Reterritorialisation of Housing Governance?’, Space and Polity, 12/2: 183–96. DOI: 10.1080/13562570802173265
McKee, K. (2008). ‘Community ownership of social housing in Glasgow: building more sustainable, cohesive communities?’, People, Place and Policy, 2/2: 101–11.
Mcintyre, Z., & Mckee, K. (2008). ‘Governance and sustainability in Glasgow: connecting symbolic capital and housing consumption to regeneration’, Area, 40/4: 481–90. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4762.2008.00814.x