Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them)

Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them)

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

2025 Events

Surveying Sex, Gender and Sexuality: Instats

September - October 2025

This 4-day course introduces participants to issues surrounding the ways that sex, gender and sexuality are represented in current UK surveys. The course helps participants design survey questions in an inclusive, transparent, and reflexive manner. The recommendations provided in this course are based on a mixed method research project that directly engaged with people with relationships to sex, gender and sexuality overlooked in UK survey data.

This training begins with a run down of what participants can expect from the training and a discussion of the importance of data and its relationship to power. Participants will be introduced to queer and feminist perspectives on categorisation and quantification. These perspectives represent a critical lens which is useful for holding our research to a high standard. On day two the importance of data is positioned in the context of the UK and its latest censuses from 2021/2022. The censuses and the debates surrounding them are used as an example to consider assumptions made when we produce data and how to address them. On day three participants are encouraged to consider the risks and benefits of data visability for LGBTI+ people and how we as researchers can help minimise risks and maximise benefit. By the end of this training event, participants will have had the chance not only to review a range of question designs but also design their own. In the final session we discuss different elements of question design and their strengths and weaknesses.

Queering Data: NCRM

June 2025

A short course ran over 4 half days aimed at research practitioners and data users discussing matters relating to sex, gender and sexuality survey data production and the queer production of data. Updated to reflect changes in the status of trans rights in the UK.

Facilitator for the in conversation with the Deans panel at the CoSS Connections event: University of Glasgow

January 2025

Ending an exciting day of networking within the College of Social Sciences I facilitated a conversation between four of the colleges Deans.