McKay, J., Williams, K. & Shanmugam, S. (2025). Self-understanding and connection as the foundation to supporting student perfectionists in a brief educator-led programme. Journal of Further and Higher Education.
McKay, J., Blackburn., L., Regoczi, D., Williams, K., Shanmugam, S. (2025). Learning in an era of high expectations: Prevalence and experiences of perfectionism at a UK university. Manuscript under review.
Blackburn, L., McKay, J., Regoczi, D., Williams, K., Shanmugam, S. (2025). Learner agency, wellbeing, and equity across diverse student populations: A mixed-methods study at a UK higher education institution. Manuscript under review.
Stan, I., Zirar, A., McKay , J., Petrakieva, L., Budhathoki, T., & Otermans, P. (2025). Unveiling higher education students’ experiences of using artificial intelligence: a cross-institutional qualitative study. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (37). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi37.1746
McKay, J., Williams, K. & Stewart, J. (2024). You just want a break from the hatred of failure: the lived experience of being a student physiotherapist perfectionist and considerations for educators. Adv in Health Sci Educ 29, 893–918 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10459-023-10287-y
Bishopp-Martin, S., Canton, U., McKay, J., Psaros, C., Syska, A., & Thomas, S. (2023). Mentoring in learning development. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, (29). https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi29.1132
Zahn, D., Canton, U., Boyd, V., Hamilton, L., Mamo, J., McKay, J., Proudfoot, L., Telfer, D., Williams, K. & Wilson, C. (2020). The whole is more than the sum of its parts – assessing writing using the consensual writing technique. Studies in Higher Education, 46 (9), 1-12.
McKay, J., O’Neill, D., Petrakieva, L. (2018). CAKES (Cultural Awareness & Knowledge Exchange Scheme): A holistic and inclusive approach to supporting international students. Journal of Further & Higher Education, 42 (2), 276-288.
McKay, J., Petrakieva, L. Telfer, D., Williams, K., Nielsen, C., O’Neill, D., MacInnes, F., Stevenson, L. (2017). Evaluating and co-creating with student learning developers. The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and change, 3(2) [link]
Kennedy, A. & McKay, J. (2011). Beyond induction: the continuing professional development needs of early-career teachers in Scotland. Professional Development in Education, 37(4), 551-569.
Finlay, I., Sheridan, M., McKay, J., & Nudzor, H. (2010). Young people on the margins: In need of more choices and more chances in twenty-first century Scotland. British Educational Research Journal, 36 (5), 851-867.
McKay, J., Wright, A., Lowry, R., Steele, K., Ryde, G., & Mutrie, N. (2009). Walking on prescription: The utility of a pedometer pack for increasing physical activity in primary care. Patient Education and Counseling, 76 (1), 71-76.
McKay, J., Anderson, A.G., Lavallee, D., & White, A. (2008). Sources of strain in track athletes. The Sport Psychologist, 22(2), 143-163.
McKay, J., Lavallee, D., Anderson, A.G., Lavallee, D., & White, A. (2006). The influence of athletic identity on cognitive appraisals and coping following underperforming among international track athletes. Kinesiologia Slovenica, 12(1), 48-62.
Hughes, A.R., McLaughlin, R., McKay, J., McKay., T., & Mutrie, N. (2006). The B’Active programme for overweight primary school children in Glasgow: determining the prevalence of overweight and obesity and evaluating a targeted activity intervention. British Journal of Nutrition, 97, 204-209.
Anderson, A.G., White, A., & McKay, J. (2004). Athletes’ emotional responses to injury. In D. Lavallee, J. Thatcher, & M. Jones (Eds). In, Coping and Emotion in Sport., pp.207-221. Nova Science.
McKay, J., Mutrie, N., Anderson, P., Moulds, Y., & Pitsiladis, Y. (2000). Creatine supplementation: An experimental study of its effect on causal attributions made for exercise performance. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 34, 151.
