Dr Kim McKee

Political Geographies of the City

Funding period: 1 October 2007 – 1 October 2010
Type of funding: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Kim is Director of the Centre for Housing Research, Managing Editor, journal of Housing Studies, member of the ESRC Peer Review College, editorial board member for Housing Theory & Society, and past Chair and Executive Committee member (2008-15) of the Housing Studies Association. After completing her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Glasgow she joined the University of St Andrews in 2010. 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 on ‘Theorising Governance’ (2009).

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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