Dr Ruth McKie

Job: Subject Lead in Criminology

Faculty: Health and Life Sciences

School/department: School of Applied Social Sciences

Address: De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0)116 250 6055

E: ruth.mckie@dmu.ac.uk

W: https://www.dmu.ac.uk

 

Research group affiliations

Institute for Research in Social Sciences

Key research outputs

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Turgoose, D., McKie, R.E. Connelly, P (2023) Pet Insurance Discrimination and Domestic Violence: Double Jeopardy in the UK. Violence Against Women. DOI: 10.1177/10778012231176201

Holder, F., Carbone, J., McKie, R. E (2023) Climate Obstruction and Facebook Advertising: How a Sample of Climate Obstruction Organizations Use social media to Disseminate Discourses of Delay. Climactic Change. DOI 10.1007/s10584-023-03494-4

McKie, R.E. (2021) Obstruction, delay, and transnationalism: Examining the online climate change counter-movement. Energy Research and Social Sciences. 80,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2021.102217  

Turgoose. D and McKie, R.E. (2021) Generic Personal Safety Applications; empowering victims of Domestic Violence and Abuse? A Practitioner Lens Gender-Based Violence. https://doi.org/10.1332/239868021X16254814390107

McKie, R.E. (2019) An Environmental Harm to Examine UK Nuclear Energy Expansion, Extractive Industries and Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2019.10.011

Johnston E., Crisp A., McKie, R.E., Brawn, R (2019) Forensic science and human migration: The Role of forensic Genetics. Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement. Series 7 (1): 450-451.

McKie, R.E. (2018) Climate Change Counter Movement Neutralisation Techniques: A Typology to Examine Climate Change Counter Movement Messaging, Sociological Inquiry, https://doi.org/10.1111/soin.12246

Stretesky P.B., McKie, R.E., Lynch M.J., Long, M,A. & Barrett, K.A. (2018) Where Have all the Falcons Gone? Saker Exports in a Global Economy, Global Ecology and Conservation, Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2017.e00372

Stretesky, P.B., Long, M.A., McKie, R.E., Aryee, F (2018) Does Oil and Gas Development Increase Crime with UK Local Authorities 2003-2015? The Extractive Industry and Society

Stretesky, P.B., McKie, R.E (2016) A perspective on the historical analysis of race and treatment storage and disposal facilities in the United States" Environmental Research Letters, 11 (3) DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/3/031001  (Selected as a Monthly Highlight March 2016

McKie, R. E., Stretesky, P.B, Long, M.A. (2015) Carbon Crime in the Voluntary Market: An Exploration of Modernisation Themes among a Sample of Criminal and Non-Criminal Organisations. Critical Criminology 23 (4): 473–486.

 Peer Reviewed Books

McKie R.E (2023) The Climate Change Counter Movement: How the Fossil Fuel industry sought to delay climate action. Palgrave Macmillan.

Cudworth E., McKie, R.E. Turgoose, D., (eds) (2022). Feminist Animal Studies: Theories, practices, politics. Routledge Publications.

Peer Reviewed Book Chapters

McKie, R.E. Faraque, O. (Forthcoming) Across the Global South. In Timmons et al, (eds)  Global Assessment on Climate Obstruction. Oxford University Press

Daley, F., Newell, P., McKie, R.E., Painter, J. (Forthcoming) Climate Obstruction in the UK. In (eds) Brulle, R., & Roberts, T. Climate Obstruction Across Europe. Oxford University Press.

McKie, R E. (2023) Climate Change, Governance, and Inequality. Eds Long, M.A., Lynch, MJ, Stretesky, PB. Handbook on the Environment and Inequality. Edward Elgar Publishing.

 

McKie R.E. (2022) Animal Abuse, In Atkinson, R., Ayres, T (eds) Shades of Deviance. 2nd Edition. Routledge Publications.

 McKie R.E (2022) The Climate Change Counter Movement: An International Deviant Network, The International Handbook on Anti-Environmentalism, eds. Tindall, D and Dunlap, R.E.  Edward Elgar Publishing

McKie, R. E (2018) The Limits of Ecological Modernisation to Reduce GHG Emissions. A Case Study of Crime in Carbon Markets. In Environmental Crime and the Money,

McKie, R. E., Stretesky, P. B., Lynch, M. J., Long, M.A (2017) The Criminal Kind: Green Criminology and the Prevention of Ecological Destruction* Forging a Socio-Legal Approach to Environmental Harms: Global Perspectives, New York, Routledge Publications,

Research and Policy Reports

 McKie, R.E., Aitken, A. (2023) Flood Prevention and Resilience in Matlock: A British Academy Funded Project. Community Report. November 2023.

McKie, R.E., Aitken, A. (2023). Flood Prevention, Resilience Building and Communities: Policy Primer. November 2023.

Edwards G, Gellert PK, Faruque O, Hochstetler K, McElwee PD, Kaswhan P, et al. (2023) Climate obstruction in the Global South: Future research trajectories. PLOS Clim 2(7): e0000241. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000241

Plehwe, D.. Goldenbaum, M., Ramanujam, A., McKie, R.E., Moreno, J.A., Ekberg, K., Hall, G., Araldi, L., Walker, J., Brulle, R., Neujeffski, M., Graham, N., Hrubes, M. (2021). “The Mises Network and Climate Policy: 9 Key Findings” Policy Briefing, The Climate and Development Lab, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, online at climatedevlab.brown.edu. July 2021. Published by CSSN, July 2021

 McKie, R.E., Milani, C.R.S., Walz, J.R, Roberts, T., Edwards, G., Faruque, O.M., McElwee., P., Hochstetler, K., Kashwan, P., (2021) Is Climate Obstruction Different in the Global South? Preliminary Observations and a Research Agenda. Research Primer. Climate Social Science Network. Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, online at climatedevlab.brown.edu.

 Datasets and Databases

McKie, R.E. et al (2023) Atlas Think tanks: Main Employers. Available at: https://figshare.dmu.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Atlas_Think_Tank_Main_Employers/22217050

 

Research interests/expertise

Dr Ruth E. McKie is a world leading academic in the field of Climate Social Science, particularly Climate Obstruction. Ruth's interests lie in the exploration and understanding of those seeking to undermine climate action and the socio, political, and economic conditions that stall necessary action. Ruth's work also examines community resilience and environmental harm in the UK. Lastly, Ruth's work explores the role of animals, animal cruelty and its intersections with domestic violence

Areas of teaching

CRIM2404: Researching Justice Journeys

CRIM3004: International Perspectives

Qualifications

PhD Criminology: Northumbria University

Courses taught

Researching Crime and Justice, International Perspectives

Current research students

Tasnina Karim

Emma Johnston (Completed)

Externally funded research grants information

Principal Applicant: Climate Obstruction in the Global South. Lead Author. Climate Social Science Network 

Co-Applicant: Climate Obstruction in the UK.Climate Social Science Network 

Principal Applicant: British Academy Small Research Grants: Place-making and Responses to Flooding in the UK

Principal Applicant: Climate Social Science Network, Research Grant Competition: Developmental Models and Climate Obstruction in Brazil and Argentina. 

Co-Applicant: European Climate Foundation and the Climate Social Science Network: Think Tanks and the Politicisation and Polarisation of Climate Change: The Case of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation Network. Climate Social Science Network .

Co-applicant: Leicestershire Police. Leicestershire Police Lived Experience (Recruitment/Retention and Progression) £30,000 (Submitted 2022)

ORCID number

0000-0002-9707-8749

More information

For up to date information on Ruth's research follow this link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ruth-Mckie