Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action
12 May 2022, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm
![book cover of Queer Data](https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lgbtq-research/sites/lgbtq_research/files/styles/large_image/public/events/queer_data.jpeg?itok=LJxpuMOk)
Kevin Guyan will share key themes from his new book Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action including the relationship between data and visibility, the politics of who and how to count, and how data biases are used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer communities.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Noel Caliste
Location
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t.b.c.UCL, Gower StreetLondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Data has never mattered more.
Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data?
Kevin Guyan will share key themes from his new book Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action, including the relationship between data and visibility, the politics of who and how to count, and how data biases are used to delegitimise the everyday experiences of queer communities.
To attend the event, please ensure you register in advance.
About the Speakers
Kevin Guyan
Writer and Research Fellow at School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow
Kevin's work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury), which examines the collection, analysis and use of gender, sex and sexuality data, particularly as it relates to LGBTQ people in the UK. In 2016, Kevin completed a PhD in history at University College London and has written about LGBTQ data for publications including WIRED, The Independent and The Scotsman. He is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland, sits on Young
Scot’s Data Advisory Group and the board of the LGBTI charity Equality Network.
Kevin S. M. Coutinho
Athena SWAN Manager at UCL
He is Chair of the Higher Education Race Action Group (HERAG), an Athena SWAN and Race Equality Charter panel chair for Advance HE, a member of Advance HE’s EDI Committee and co-Chair of LERU’s Gender and EDI Policy Group. Kevin is Chair of Windsor Fellowship, a race equality charity, a Linnean Society council member, an independent member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Diversity and Inclusion Committee and an Adviser for the Faraday Institution, promoting diversity in battery technology. He was awarded The Guardian Public Service Leadership Excellence Award in 2019.
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