Dr Karen Jeffrey
- Centre for Data Science and AI Fellow (Research Services)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0061-6089Biography
I'm a Data Science & AI Fellow in the University of Glasgow's Centre for Data Science & AI. My work sits at the intersection of economics and data science, exploring how societies can harness the benefits of AI while managing its risks. I hold a PhD in Political Economy from King's College London and completed a Postdoc in Medical Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
My research examines how generative AI is reshaping labour markets and how public and political attitudes are responding. My aim is to generate evidence-based insights into the political viability of potential policy responses to AI-driven disruption.
Research interests
- Political Economy of AI
- Computational Social Science
- Causal Inference
- Data science & AI methods (LLMs, NLP etc.)
Publications
Prior publications
Article
Shah SA, Jeffrey K, Robertson C, Sheikh A (2025) Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on elective care backlog trends, recovery efforts, and capacity needs to address backlogs in Scotland (2013-2023): a descriptive analysis and modelling study. The Lancet regional health. Europe Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101188)
Jeffrey K et al. (2024) Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.1177/01410768241297833)
Rudan I et al. (2024) Selecting the most informative positive and negative controls for self-controlled case series (SCCS): Rationale, approach, and lessons from studies investigating the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. Journal of global health Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.7189/jogh.14.03037)
Millington T et al. (2024) Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake. Journal of global health Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.7189/jogh.14.03006)
Calum Macdonald et al. (2024) Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. (doi: 10.1038/s41541-024-00898-w)
(2024) Automation anxiety, fairness perceptions, and redistribution: Past experiences condition the response to future job loss JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION Web of Science. (doi: 10.1016/J.JEBO.2024.02.038)
Kerr S et al. (2023) Understanding and reporting odds ratios as rate-ratio estimates in case-control studies. Journal of global health Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.7189/jogh.13.04101)
Macdonald C et al. (2023) Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes: national population-based cohort study in Scotland Europe PubMed Central. (doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2789162/v1)
Aziz Sheikh et al. (2023) External validation of the QCovid 2 and 3 risk prediction algorithms for risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality in adults: a national cohort study in Scotland BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075958)
Book
Jeffrey, Karen (2021) Automation and the future of work Journal of economic behavior & organization GND Network. (doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.10.019)
