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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 832 3161
Email
sarah.mckenzie@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Department
Department of Psychological Medicine (Wellington)
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), DPH, MPH, PhD
Research summary
Suicide and mental health

Research

Sarah is a social scientist specialising in mental health research, critical suicidology, and qualitative research methods.

She is currently researching men's anxiety, depression and suicidal distress using participatory visual research methods. She is interested in upstream mental health promotion and suicide prevention and has undertaken research in mental health inequities, the social determinants of mental health, masculinities and men's mental health.

Publications

Hoskin, A., McKenzie, S. K., Cooney, E. B., & Jenkin, G. (2024). Should menstrual cycle data be collected during suspected suicide autopsies? [Research letter]. New Zealand Medical Journal/Te ara tika o te hauora hapori, 137(1592), 113-115. Retrieved from https://www.nzmj.org.nz/ Journal - Research Other

McKenzie, S. K., Kelly, M. T., Cooney, E., & Oliffe, J. L. (2023). Men's accounts of anxiety: A photovoice study. SSM Qualitative Research in Health, 4, 100356. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100356 Journal - Research Article

McKenzie, S. K., Roguski, M., & Every-Palmer, S. (2023). Colonization drives silence and inequities in men’s mental illness. Nature Mental Health, 1, 609. doi: 10.1038/s44220-023-00113-0 Journal - Research Other

Goel, D., Dennis, B., & McKenzie, S. K. (2023). Is suicide a mental health, public health or societal problem? Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 36(5), 352-359. doi: 10.1097/yco.0000000000000888 Journal - Research Other

Das, T., Mathieson, F., & McKenzie, S. (2023, January). "Tunnelling into blackness": Metaphors men use to describe their lived experience with mental distress. Poster session presented at the University of Otago Summer Student Showcase, Wellington, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)

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