Spoke on the article I am co-authoring with Professor Jo Ferrie and Dr Paul Person on data as a human rights issue.
Helped facilitate a discussion surrounding reserach ethics. The section I facilitated focused on barriers to LGBTQ+ research relating to sexual health.
Alongside Nicola Rennie I ran the following workshop: In 2021/2022 the UK censuses represented LGBTQ+ people in new ways. The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to this data and encourage them to produce visualisations utilising it. This workshop is ran in association with the University of Edinburgh’s Gender and Sexuality Data Lab and is heavily inspired by Tidy Tuesday. In the first part of this workshop queer feminist researcher and educator, Kirstie Ken English, will explain how LGBTQ+ populations were represented in the UK censuses and discuss the data available. In the second half data visualisation expert, Nicola Rennie, will walk participants through the code of an example visualisation of the census data. This workshop is a jumping off activity as participants will be prompted to design their own visualisations and share them in the weeks following the conference on Bluesky and LinkedIn via the hashtag #VisLGBTQ. Alongside discussions of the value of visualisations the workshop will be a space to recognise the limitations in how LGBTQ+ census data has been shared. Data sets and example code will be provided to all participants.
Chaired Dr Kevin Guyan’s talk about his book Rainbow Trap.
Launch event at Strathclyde Uni for the Queer in a Wee Place book I have a chapter in. Due to be released April 2026.