Dr Ken McLaughlin
former social worker; academic; author, Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the psychology of recognition and Stigma, and its discontents

Ken McLaughlin has over 30 years of experience in social work and social care, working as a senior lecturer in social work and mental health, and in practice as an Approved Mental Health professional and team manager in a social services mental-health team.

His research is concerned with the way wider social and political concerns are reflected within social policy in general and social work in particular. Of relevance to this session is his 2012 book Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the psychology of recognition, which investigates the process of psychologisation on contemporary politics and society. His work has also appeared in several academic journals and in the online political and current affairs journal spiked. His latest book Stigma, and its Discontents was published by Cambridge Scholars in 2021. He also co-edited (with Peter Bullimore and Ian Warwick) Making Sense of Paranoia: Personal, political and professional perspectives, also published by Cambridge Scholars in 2023.

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