BSc(Hons), DPH, MPH, PhDSenior Research Fellow, Suicide and Mental Health Research Group, Department of Psychological Medicine
Contact details
Email sarah.mckenzie@otago.ac.nz
Research interests and activities
Sarah is a social scientist specialising in mental health research, critical suicidology, and qualitative research methods. She has worked on a range of projects in the areas of mental health inequalities and the social determinants of mental health, primary mental health care and suicide prevention/intervention. 
Her current work is funded by a Marsden Fast-Start and explores men's lived experiences of mental distress and suicidality using participatory visual research methods, critical gender theory and mental health geography.
In the project, titled 'Through the eyes of men', 21 men get behind the lens, taking photos which reflect their personal experiences of living with mental distress, and what helped or hindered their mental health journeys. Their images are displayed in a digital exhibition, along with descriptions of what they mean to the photographers:
Postgraduate supervision
- Renan Lopes de Lyra PhD – Suicide exposure among first responders
- Anna von Tunzelman PhD – Is some binge-drinking a form of deliberate self-harm?