Peer Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2024 Prentice, S., McKay, L., & McKellep, T. Teaching Family? Care/Work Policy in Selected Family Courses in Canada’s Research-Intensive Universities. Teaching Sociology, 52(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0092055X241248183 (40% Contribution)
2023 Hoessler, C., Hoare, A., Austin, L.-A., Dhiman, H., Gibson, S., Huscroft, C., McKay, L., McDonald, B., Mihalicz, L., Noakes, J., & Reid, R. Faculty in Action: Researching a Community of Practice Approach to Institutional Learning Outcomes Assessment. Journal of Formative Design in Learning, 7(2), 171-181. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41686-023-00084-6 (40% collective contribution by the last nine authors)
2020 Doucet, A., Mathieu, S., and McKay, L., Reconceptualizing Parental Leave Benefits in COVID-19 Canada: From Employment Policy to Care and Social Protection Policy. Canadian Public Policy, 46(S3), S272-S286. https://doi.org/10.3138/cpp.2020-091 (30% Contribution; Altmetric score: 66, https://utpjournals.altmetric.com/details/88526241/citations)
2020 Doucet, A. and McKay, L., Fathering, parental leave, impacts, and gender equality: what/how are we measuring? International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 40(5/6): 441-463. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-04-2019-0086 (40% Contribution; Altmetric score: 8, https://emerald.altmetric.com/details/143389428)
2020 Mathieu, S., Doucet, A., and McKay, L. Parental Leave and Intra-Regime Differences in a Liberal Country: The Case of Four Canadian Provinces. Canadian Journal of Sociology 45(2): 169-194. https://doi.org/10.29173/cjs29504 (20% Contribution)
2019 Doucet, A., McKay, L. and Mathieu, S. Reimagining Parental Leave: a conceptual ‘thought experiment’. In P. Moss,A.-Z. Duvander, & A. Koslowski (Eds.), Parental Leave and Beyond: Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions, (1st ed., pp. 333-352). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfrxngh.25 (30% Contribution)
2017 McKay, L. Organ Donation and the Other Site of Politics. In P. Albanese, L. Tepperman, & E. Alexander (Eds.) Reading Sociology: Canadian Perspectives (3rd ed., pp. 242-246). UBC Press
2017 Doucet, A. and McKay, L. Parental Leave, Class Inequalities, and ‘Caring With’: An Ethics of Care Approach to Canadian Parental Leave Policy. In R. Langford, S. Prentice, and P. Albanese (Eds.) Caring for Children: Social Movements and Public Policy in Canada UBC Press. (Equal authorship)
2016 McKay, L., Mathieu, S. and Doucet, A. Parental-leave rich and parental-leave poor: Inequality in Canadian Labour Market based Leave Policies. Journal of Industrial Relations, 58(4): 543-562 (70% contribution) (22 Altmetric score)
2016 McKay, L. “Generating Ambivalence: Media Representations of Canadian Transplant Tourism” Studies in Social Justice, 10(2): 322-341
2013 McKay, L., Marshall, K. and Doucet, A. Fathers and Parental Leave in Canada: Policies and Practices In Jessica Ball and Kerry Daly (Eds.), Father Involvement in Canada: Diversity, Renewal and Transformation, (pp. 207-223). UBC Press. (60% contribution)
2011 Doucet, A., McKay, L. and Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay Canada and Québec: two policies, one country In Sheila Kamerman and Peter Moss (Eds.)The Politics of Parental Leave Policies: Children, Parenting, Gender and the Labour Market (pp. 33-50) Bristol: Policy Press. (Equal authorship)
2010 McKay, L. and Doucet, A. ‘Without Taking Away Her Leave’: A Canadian Case Study of Couples’ Decisions on Fathers’ Use of Paid Parental Leave Fathering: A Journal of Research, Theory, and Practice About Men As Fathers, Vol.8 (3): 300-32 (60% contribution)