Dr. Sarah McKenzie PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Department of Psychological Medicine

Dr. Sarah McKenzie is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychological Medicine at The University of Otago. She is supported by the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi through a Marsden Fast Start Grant and a Lottery Health Research Grant. Sarah is an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in qualitative health research, inequities in mental health and illness, public health and critical suicidology. Sarah leads participatory arts research that focuses on using visual methods to unpack social and structural inequities in men’s mental illness. Her goal is to co-create resources using participatory arts as a non-clinical approach for the management and promotion of men’s mental health.

First Author Publications

Title Authors Journal Publication date
Men's accounts of anxiety: A photovoice study McKenzie, S., Kelly, M. T., Cooney, E., Oliffe, J. L.,   SSM - Qualitative Research in Health
Colonization drives silence and inequities in men’s mental illness McKenzie, S. K., Roguski, M., & Every-Palmer, S. Nature Mental Health
Men’s experiences of Mental Illness Stigma across the lifespan: A scoping review McKenzie, S.K., Oliffe, J.L., Black, A., & Collings, S. American Journal of Men's Health

First Nations land acknowledegement

UBC VPRI acknowledges that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.

Reducing Male Suicide Research Excellence Cluster

Vancouver, BC Canada

Research Excellence Clusters at UBC Vancouver is a joint initiative of the Provost and Vice-President, Academic, UBC Vancouver and the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. Funding support for the clusters is provided by Academic Excellence Funds – UBC Vancouver.

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