Queering data: Producing data on sex, gender and sexuality - onlineInfo Location Additional Items Contact More Info Course Information![]() Queering data introduces participants to issues surrounding the ways that sex, gender and sexuality are represented in UK data. The course focuses on the production of data via surveys, helping participants design survey questions in an inclusive, transparent and reflexive manner. It takes place over four half days (10th & 11th and 17th & 18th June), with each session on a specific theme. The first two sessions engage with critical theories surrounding how populations are categorised and counted and dives into the UK data context. The final two sessions provide participants with insights and tools for designing their own survey questions and engaging with data in an informed 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. The course covers:
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Payment using the Online Store can only be completed via Visa and Mastercard Credit/Debit Card or PayPal. AMEX is not accepted. Course CodeNCRMGLASQD Course LeaderKirstie Ken English
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Additional InformationRequired preparatory reading: Browne, K. (2010). Queer quantification or queer(y)ing quantification: Creating lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual citizens through governmental social research. In Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research (pp. 231-249). D'ignazio, C. & Klein, L. 2020. 4.“What Gets Counted Counts”. Data Feminism. https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/h1w0nbqp/release/3 Additional reading will be provided closer to the time but these are the only two pieces required before the course. Presenter: Kirstie Ken English (they/them) Kirstie Ken is a mixed methods social researcher and quantitative methods tutor at The University of Glasgow. Their interests and expertise are in the production and use of equality, diversity and inclusion data, gender, sexuality and human rights. Their PhD in Sociology was on “How differences of in terms of sex and gender should be represented by UK population surveys”. To find out more about their work visit their website. |