The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Katie's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Katie
Short biography
Dr McBride is an early career academic having recently successfully published work related to hate and harm and undertaking research specifically examining the experiences of trans individuals in society. A publication for the International Review of Victimology (McBride, 2019) addresses the harms associated with mediated representations of transgender identity. Dr McBride is the Joint Portfolio Lead for Criminology and Professional Policing Programmes at the University at Plymouth and has taught on a range of modules across the Criminology Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programme. Dr McBride is also the School of Society and Culture lead for Employability.
Dr McBride is a member of the British Society of Criminology (BSC) and the International Network for Hate Studies (INHS) and has presented initial findings of her PhD research, in addition to the Critical Hate Studies theoretical framework developed with her colleague Prof Zoë James, to a national audience at the BSC annual conference in 2015 and 2018 and internationally at the INHS biennial conferences in 2016 and 2018 and most recently at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in 2019.
Prior to joining academia, Katie had an established career as an equality and human rights practitioner, as a community engagement and development, and policy officer in the public sector before joining the third sector to become Chief Executive officer of the regional equality and human rights body, Equality South West, which supported community activism across the spectrum of protected characteristics.
Katie has also held Non-Executive Director roles at Plymouth Community Homes; supporting their work to provide quality affordable housing to residents of Plymouth at the surrounding area. Katie Chaired the Customer Focus Committee and was Deputy Director before her retirement in 2021.
Teaching
- Crime in context
- Researching crime and criminal justice
- Systemic violence
- Hate Crime
- Working for justice
- County lines
- Women and crime
- Inequalities
