Dr Lisa Mckenzie is currently working as a full time research Fellow on the LLLight Project as part of the Nottingham team with Professor John Holford. Her previous research funded by the Leverhulme Trust, a re-study of the sociological research ‘Poverty the Forgotten Englishman’ (1970) written by Coates and Silburn which focused upon the de-industrialization of a disadvantaged community in Nottingham. Dr Lisa Mckenzie has research interests which focus upon social class, adult education, poor communities, and UK welfare policy. She has published in leading Sociological Journals, and is currently writing a monograph for Policy Press about ‘Getting By in Broken Britain’.