Kirstie Ken English (they/them)

Kirstie Ken English (they/them)

Mixed methods researcher & quantitative methods tutor. My work focuses on the production and use of equality, diversity and inclusion(EDI) data, gender, sexuality and human rights.

Research

My PhD in Sociology researched how differences in terms of sex and gender should be represented by UK population surveys. The research focuses on the perspectives of those currently overlooked in survey data. To achieve this a sequential mixed-methods design was employed. I was funded by the University of Glasgow’s College of Social Sciences (CoSS) Scholarship.

Supporter of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab based at the University of Edinbrugh

Publications:

English,K. K, Greenwood, S & Ferrie, J.E (pending approval) Ethical knowledge production? Considering university methods teaching as integral to the feminist mission of disabilities studies

English, K. K (pending pub) Binary barriers: Representing trans and gender diverse populations in censuses and other population surveys, in The International Handbook of Demography of Sexuality, second edition, Springer

English, K. K (pending pub) The construction of Scotland’s LGBTQ+ population in the census, in Queer in a Wee Place, Bloomsbury

Boyle. K, Camps. D, English. K , Ferrie. J.E, Flegg. A & Mukherjee. G (2025) Access to Social Justice: Social Rights and the UK’s Access to Justice Gap, Bristol University Press

English, K. K. (2024) An overview of the risks and benefits of data representation for LGBTI+ people In: Webster, L. (ed.) Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. SAGE Publications

Scottish Human Rights Commission (2024) The Open Budget Survey results for Scotland’s 2021/22 Budget

The Young Women’s Movement (2023) Status of Young Women in Scotland 2022-2023: Experiences of Accessing Health Care

Boyle. K, Camps. D, English. K & Ferrie. J.E (2022) The Practitioner Perspective on Access to Justice for Social Rights: Addressing The Accountability Gap

Livingston. M, McArthur. D, Hong.J & English. K (2020) Predicting cycling volumes using crowdsourced activity data, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Scottish Human Rights Commission (2020) The Open Budget Survey 2019 results for Scotland’s 2017/18 Budget

Blog posts linked to my PhD:

T.E.M.P.S Question Design Standards

Introductory standards for designing survey questions on sex,gender and sexuality based on my research.

Survey: Representing differences of sex, gender and sexuality in UK population surveys
The survey that features as part of the third and final strand of my research. Aimed at LGBTI+ people ages 16+ in the UK.

This Queer Counts: A 5 minute zine
This zine touches on ways I have personally been overlooked or misrepresented by surveys. These issues formed one of the key motivations for my research.