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Stephen Douglas McKay PHd (born 3 May 1968) is a British academic and since 2013 the Distinguished Professor of Social Research at the University of Lincoln.
Early life
McKay was born at the Aldershot General Hospital in Aldershot in Hampshire in 1968, the son of Angela née Lindsay, a sales assistant, and Paul McKay, a roof tiler. His siblings are Glenn McKay (born 1966) and Rachael McKay (born 1972). Stephen McKat attended Heron Wood Boys' School in Aldershot before gaining a First Class degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford (1986-1989) following which he took his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Bristol (2007).
Academic career
McKay was a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the Personal Finance Research Centre at the University of Bristol (2002–2007) after which he was Professor of Social Research at the University of Birmingham (2007-2013). He has worked at the University of Bath and the University of Loughborough, for the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), and the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). Since 2013 he has been Distinguished Professor of Social Research in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lincoln where his subject specialisms include social research; inequality; family policy; quantitative methods; social security and pensions.
Dr McKay was awarded the Progress Prize by Princeton University in 2017 for his work in predicting layoffs in the Fragile Families Challenge. He is an external examiner for the Bachelor of Science degree in Social Policy at the London School of Economics and is a Fellow of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Peer Review College.
References
- ^ Academic Profile for Dr Stephen McKay, Linked In database
- ^ Profile for Professor Stephen McKay], Staff Directory of the University of Lincoln
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007 for Stephen Douglas McKay, 1968: Ancestry.com (subscription required)