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Professor Lorna McKee

photograph of Lorna McKee

Email: l.mckee@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: 01224 559815
Fax: 01224 273843
Room: HSRU 3F

Position

Professor of Management, on secondment to HSRU

Education

Dr McKee studied at Trinity College Dublin, where she obtained the Bachelor of Social Studies, before gaining an MA and DPhil in Sociology at the University of York, England. Professor McKee was appointed as the Programme Director in the Health Services Research Unit for the Delivery of
Care Programme in 2005.

Previous
Employment

Professor McKee has held research posts at the Universities of York, Aston, Warwick and Aberdeen. She has also spent time as an NHS departmental manager. She has taught and supervised students on taught masters and management development programmes at universities and for the NHS, as well as supervising research degrees. She serves as a member of the Commissioning Board of the National Co-ordinating Centre for NHS Service Delivery and Organisation R&D; and of the subgroup on Managing Change. She has also served as an Expert Panel and Advisory Committee member for the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI). She is an Associate Director and Member of the Steering Group of the Scottish Centre for Research on Family and Relationships.

Research
Interests

Healthcare management, the managrement of change and innovation and in the sociology of work and family life.

Research Centres
PhD Supervision Interests

Health care management; Management of innovation; Sociology of work organisation, gender and family life.

Publications in the final RAE period (2001-2007)
  • (Thomson, E., Laing, A., and McKee, L.), The Influence of Children on Family Purchasing: the Importance of Knowledge and Information, Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2007
  • (Blackman, T., Elliott, E., Greene, A. Harrington, B., Hunter, D.J., Marks, L., McKee, L., and Williams, G.), 'Performance Assessment and Wicked Problems: the Case of Health Inequalities', Public Policy and Administration (Special Issue on the Future of Public Services: Managing Relationships in the Services of the Public), Vol. 12, No. 2, 2006
  • (Forrest Keenan, K., Simpson, S., Wilson, B.W., Van Teijlingen, E., McKee, L., Haites, N., Matthews, E.), "It's their blood not mine"; who's responsible for (not) telling parents about genetic risk?, Health, Risk and Society, Vol. 7, No.3, pp. 209-226, 2005
  • (Schucksmith, J.,McKee,L. and Willmot, H.), Families, education and the 'participatory imperative', In Families and Society: Boundaries and Relationships, 2005
  • (Wilson, B.J, Forrest, K., van Teijlingen E., McKee, L., Haites, N., Matthews, E., and Simpson, S.A.), Family Communication about Genetic Risk: The Little That is Known, Community Genetics, Vol 7, pp 15-24, 2004
  • (Haugh, H., and McKee, L.), The Cultural Paradigm of the Smaller Firm, Journal of Small Business Management, Vol 42, No. 4, pp 377-394, 2004
  • (Pettigrew, A., Ferlie, E. and McKee.L), Receptive and Non-receptive contexts for change, In Studying the Organistaion and Delivery of Health Services: A Reader, 2004
  • (Farrar, S., Harris, F., McKee. L., Scott A.), Performance Assessment Framework: Experiences and Perceptions of NHS Scotland, Report to the Analytic Service Division, Directorate of Performance Measurement and Finance, Scottish Executive Health Department, pp. 1-54, 2004
  • (Haugh, H. and McKee, L.), It’s Just Like a Family; Shared Values in the Family Firm, Community, Work and the Family, 2003
  • (Jenson, A-M, McKee, L.), Children and The Changing Family. Between Transformation and Negotiation, 2003
  • (Forrest, K., Simpson, S.A., Wilson, B., McKee, L., and Matthews, E.), To Tell or Not to Tell: Barriers and Facilitators in Family Communication about Genetic Risk, Clinical Genetics, Vol 64, pp 317-326, 2003
  • (Fusulier, B. McKee, L. & Mauthner, N.), La conciliation travail/famille en Belgique et au Royaume-Uni, Les Politiques Sociales, No 1&2 pp88-113, 2002
  • (McKee, L., Mauthner, N., and Galilee, J.), Childrens perspectives on middle class work-family arrangements, In: Children and the Changing Family:Between Transformation and Negotiation, 2002
  • (Laing, A. and McKee, L.), Willing Volunteers or Unwilling Conscripts? Professionals and Marketing in Service Organisations, Journal of Marketing Management, 17, 559-575, 2001
  • (Mowatt, G., Grant, A., Bower, D. J., Brebner, J., Cairns, J. & McKee, L.), Timing of Assessment: New and Fast Changing Health Technologies, Methods on Evidence Based Health Care, pp 471-485, 2001
  • (Mauthner, N., McKee, L., and Strell, M.), Work and Family Life in Rural Communities, 2001
Publications in the previous RAE period
(1996-2000)
  • (McKee, L., Mauthner, N. and Maclean, C.), ', Community, Work and Family, (3:2), pp 133-162, 2000
  • (McKee, L., Marnoch, G. and Dinnie, N.), Between Organisations and Institutions: Legitimacy and Medical Managers, Public Administration, (78:4), pp 967-987, 2000
  • (McKee, L., Laing, A. W.), Achieving a Customer Orientation in Health Care: Structuring the Marketing Function in NHS Trusts, European Journal of Marketing, (34:5/6), pp 576-597, 2000
  • (McKee,L., Mauthner, N. and Maclean, C.), ', Work, Employment & Society, 14:3, pp 557-571, 2000
  • (McKee, L., Mauthner, N.S. and Maclean, C.), Family-friendly policies and practices in the oil and gas industry: employers perspectives, Work, Employment & Society, Vol. 14 (3), pp.557-571, 2000
  • (Mauthner, N.S.,, Maclean, C. and McKee, L.), My dad hangs out of helicopter doors and takes pictures of oil platforms: Children's accounts of parental work in the oil and gas industry, Community,Work & Family, Vol 3, (2), pp.133-162, 2000
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