Dr Kirstie Ken English
- University Lecturer (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
Biography
Kirstie Ken is a mixed methods social researcher and quantitative methods lecturer.Their interests and expertise are in the production and use of equality, diversity and inclusion data, gender, sexuality, queering methods and human rights.
Research interests
Research groups
Supervision
Currently supervising a range of undergraduate and postgraduate students, primarily working on dissertations with a queer or feminist focus.
Open to secondary supervision roles for PhDs touching on any of the following:
Teaching
Current Teaching:
- Convener: Q-Step: Research Design and Methods Selection: Lectured on field work, mixed methods & surveys
- Convener: Dissertation in Sociology (pgt)
- Guest Lecturer & Tutor: Research Design in Practice: Lectured on mixed methods (PGT)
- Guest Lecturer & Tutor: Media Research Methods: Lectured on survey design & data (PGT)
- Guest Lecturer: Sociology 2B: Research Methods
- Guest Lecturer: QM2: Analysing Your Social World
- Tutor: Quantitative Data Analysis (PGT)
- Tutor: Transformations (PGT)
Professional activities & recognition
Prizes, awards & distinctions
- 2025: Staff Learning and Teaching Peer Awards:Team Teaching Award (University of Glasgow)
- 2019: COSS PhD studentship (University of Glasgow College of Social Sciences)
- 2018: Q-Step Scholarship (University of Sheffield)
Professional & learned societies
- 2025: Co-director, Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies (GLINTS)
- 2025: Supporter, Gender + Sexuality Data Lab
Selected international presentations
- 2022: Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (panel) (Brussels)
- 2022: LGBTQ Data Summit (Scotland)
- 2022: Mind the Gap Conference (England)
Supplementary
- - Facilitated the in conversation panel between Deans of the College of Social Sciences at the CoSS Connections event on January 17th 2025 - 'Clip from Good Morning Scotland', Good Morning Scotland, 06:00 27/06/2024, BBC Radio Scotland, 180 mins. 01:11:05-01:19:02. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/clip/255384?bcast=141314042 (Accessed 20 Aug 2024)
Additional information
To find out more about their work visit their website.