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Biography
Dr Lara McKenzie is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia. Her research focuses on Australia, particularly on gender, age, love, kinship, family, reproduction, and cultural change. Lara’s book, Age-dissimilar couples and romantic relationships: Ageless love? (2015), explores age-dissimilar couples in Australia. She has also undertaken research on inequality and cultural difference in education. Lara recently conducted a study on recent PhD graduates’ experiences of looking for stable academic work, and her writing here addresses the themes of gender, age, family, precarity, and audit practices. She is currently undertaking research for the project 'Coronavax: Preparing community and government'.
Research
Age-dissimilar relationships; romantic love; autonomy; relatedness; individualism; Australian society; kinship; family; reproduction
Higher education; secondary education; neoliberalism; inequality; e-learning; early career academia; audit; precarity; internationalisation
Research expertise keywords
- Kinship
- Romantic love
- Gender
- Higher education
- Precarity
- Age-dissimilar couples
- Love
- Australia
- Relatedness
- Family studies
- Democratisation, individualisation, and detraditionalisation
- Age
- Sex
- Inequality
- Early career academics
- E-learning
- Reproduction
- Finances
- Ageing
- Precarious work
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Research Output
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The risks of precarity: How employment insecurity impacts on early career researchers in Australia
McKenzie, L., 2021, Researchers at risk: Precarity, jeopardy, and uncertainty in academia. Mulligan, D. L. & Danaher, P. A. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 115-129 15 p. (Studies in education research methods).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
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Making up and breaking up: The changing commitments of age-dissimilar couples
McKenzie, L., 2020, Romantic relationships in a time of ‘cold intimacies’. Carter, J. & Arocha, L. (eds.). Palgrave Macmillan, p. 37-56 20 p. (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life).Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference paper › Chapter
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Shutting down sex: COVID-19, sex, and the transformation of singledom
McKenzie, L., 2020, In : Anthropology in Action. 27, 3, p. 9-13Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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What ongoing staff can do to support precariously employed colleagues
Ford, J., Ison, J., McKenzie, L., Cannizzo, F., Mayhew, L. R., Osborne, N. & Cooke, B., 2020, In : Australian Universities' Review. 62, 1, p. 57-62 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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What ongoing staff can do to support precariously employed colleagues the Academic Precariat
Ford, J., Ison, J., McKenzie, L., Cannizzo, F., Mayhew, L. R., Osborne, N. & Cooke, B., Feb 2020, In : Australian Universities Review. 62, 1, p. 57-62 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article
2 Citations (Scopus)