Lindsey McKay, PhD
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, British Columbia
I am a feminist sociologist/political economist of care work, health and medicine, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Social justice motivates my research and teaching. I have published in peer-reviewed journals and public platforms on parental leave inequity, organ donation, and curriculum and pedagogy. I am a Co-Investigator in the SSHRC funded Reimagining Care/Work Policies project with a focus on parental leave.
Current Research Areas of Interest
Social in/equality in Canadian and Québec parental leave policy
The exclusion of low-income and other families from family support policies
Singlehood and One-parent families
Organ donation
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Land Acknowledgement
Thompson Rivers University campuses are on the traditional lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Kamloops campus) and the T’exelc (Williams Lake campus) within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc. Our region also extends into the territories of the St’át’imc, Nlaka’pamux, Nuxalk, Tŝilhqot’in, Dakelh, and Syilx peoples.