School of Social & Political Sciences

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

-Promoting transparent and reflexive survey designs 
-Sex, gender and sexuality 
-EDI data
-Human rights
-Widening participation 
-Queering feminist research methods 
-Queering feminist pedeagogies 

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020
Number of items: 14.

2026

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Edson Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2026) Ethical knowledge production? Considering university methods teaching as integral to the feminist mission of disability studies. In: Fish, R, Bjornsdottir, K and Wilde, A (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032411262 (In Press)

Humphrey, Harvey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4522, English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Kelley, Judas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6113-7454 and Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies, . (2026) GLINTS Patch. [Artefact]

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2026) The construction of Scotland’s LGBTQ+ population in the census. In: Taylor, Yvette (ed.) Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland. Bloomsbury Academic: London, New York, Dublin, pp. 51-64. ISBN 9781350513020 (doi: 10.5040/9781350513068.ch-005)

2025

Humphrey, Harvey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4522 and English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2025) Doing and Imagining Queer Sociological Research Methods Teaching as Forms of Resistance. BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology, University of Manchester, 8-10 April 2026.

Taylor, Yvette, Humphrey, Harvey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4522, English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Mackay, Finn, McKinlay, Jack and Gagnon, Jessica (2025) Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland Special Event. BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology, University of Manchester, 8-10 April 2026.

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2025) Binary barriers: representing trans and gender diverse populations in censuses and other population surveys. In: Baumle, Amanda K. and Tuthill, Zelma Oyarvide (eds.) Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Series: International handbooks of population. Springer Nature: Cham, pp. 165-185. ISBN 9783031879111 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-87911-1_10)

Boyle, Katie, Camps, Diana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-0482, English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X, Flegg, Aidan and Mukherjee, Gaurav (2025) Access to Social Justice: Effective Remedies for Social Rights. Series: Bristol studies in law and social justice. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529237917 (doi: 10.51952/9781529237924)

2024

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2024) Scotland's Open Budget Survey 2023. Documentation. Scottish Human Rights Commission.

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2024) An overview of the risks and benefits of data representation for LGBTI+ people. In: Webster, Lexi (ed.) Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781529690767 (doi: 10.4135/9781529690767)

2022

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2022) The Aspirational Future of Trans Data. Will the Digital ever be Non-Binary? The Future of (Trans) Data Rights, Brussels, Belgium, 25 May 2022.

Boyle, Katie, Camps, Diana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-0482, English, Kirstie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 and Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2022) The Practitioner Perspective on Access to Justice for Social Rights: Addressing the Accountability Gap. Documentation. Nuffield Foundation, London.

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2022) The Status of Young Women in Scotland 2022-2023 Experiences of Accessing Healthcare. Project Report. The Young Women's Movement.

2021

Livingston, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8543-4670, McArthur, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9142-3126, Hong, Jinhyun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-2637 and English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2021) Predicting cycling volumes using crowdsourced activity data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(5), pp. 1228-1244. (doi: 10.1177/2399808320925822)

2020

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2020) The Open Budget Survey. Project Report. Scottish Human Rights Commission.

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Number of items: 14.

Articles

Livingston, Mark ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8543-4670, McArthur, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9142-3126, Hong, Jinhyun ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2322-2637 and English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2021) Predicting cycling volumes using crowdsourced activity data. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48(5), pp. 1228-1244. (doi: 10.1177/2399808320925822)

Books

Boyle, Katie, Camps, Diana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-0482, English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X, Flegg, Aidan and Mukherjee, Gaurav (2025) Access to Social Justice: Effective Remedies for Social Rights. Series: Bristol studies in law and social justice. Bristol University Press. ISBN 9781529237917 (doi: 10.51952/9781529237924)

Book Sections

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Greenwood, Sharon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4143-4430 and Edson Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2026) Ethical knowledge production? Considering university methods teaching as integral to the feminist mission of disability studies. In: Fish, R, Bjornsdottir, K and Wilde, A (eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032411262 (In Press)

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2026) The construction of Scotland’s LGBTQ+ population in the census. In: Taylor, Yvette (ed.) Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland. Bloomsbury Academic: London, New York, Dublin, pp. 51-64. ISBN 9781350513020 (doi: 10.5040/9781350513068.ch-005)

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2025) Binary barriers: representing trans and gender diverse populations in censuses and other population surveys. In: Baumle, Amanda K. and Tuthill, Zelma Oyarvide (eds.) Second International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. Series: International handbooks of population. Springer Nature: Cham, pp. 165-185. ISBN 9783031879111 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-87911-1_10)

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2024) An overview of the risks and benefits of data representation for LGBTI+ people. In: Webster, Lexi (ed.) Sage Research Methods: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research. SAGE Publications Ltd. ISBN 9781529690767 (doi: 10.4135/9781529690767)

Research Reports or Papers

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2024) Scotland's Open Budget Survey 2023. Documentation. Scottish Human Rights Commission.

Boyle, Katie, Camps, Diana ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-0482, English, Kirstie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 and Ferrie, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6498-174X (2022) The Practitioner Perspective on Access to Justice for Social Rights: Addressing the Accountability Gap. Documentation. Nuffield Foundation, London.

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2022) The Status of Young Women in Scotland 2022-2023 Experiences of Accessing Healthcare. Project Report. The Young Women's Movement.

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2020) The Open Budget Survey. Project Report. Scottish Human Rights Commission.

Conference or Workshop Item

Humphrey, Harvey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4522 and English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2025) Doing and Imagining Queer Sociological Research Methods Teaching as Forms of Resistance. BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology, University of Manchester, 8-10 April 2026.

Taylor, Yvette, Humphrey, Harvey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4522, English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Stella, Francesca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2384-0435, Mackay, Finn, McKinlay, Jack and Gagnon, Jessica (2025) Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality and Scotland Special Event. BSA Annual Conference 2026: 75 Years of Sociology, University of Manchester, 8-10 April 2026.

English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592 (2022) The Aspirational Future of Trans Data. Will the Digital ever be Non-Binary? The Future of (Trans) Data Rights, Brussels, Belgium, 25 May 2022.

Artefact

Humphrey, Harvey ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5791-4522, English, Kirstie Ken ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3050-2592, Kelley, Judas ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6113-7454 and Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies, . (2026) GLINTS Patch. [Artefact]

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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:

-Promoting transparent and reflexive survey designs 
-Sex, gender and sexuality 
-EDI data
-Human rights
-Queering feminist research methods 
-Critical quantitative methods 
 

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.


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