Dr Kirstie Ken English (they/them)

Just read a lovely message from one of my students. Hope students know how much we appreciate their feedback, positive and negative (although the positive does really keep us motivated 😅) 🥰

Sad now excited I am to get to all the other parts of my job. My inbox has been looming over me all semester 😱

Just finished a pile of marking meaning I’m entering the most magical time of year: The week with little or no teaching and no marking 🤩🤣

It’s a k3 , like the low profile design and yeah can barley function without the mx master 😅

Excited for tomorrow’s final Research Design & Method Selection session. Going to discuss data visualisation & dissemination. Calling upon my favourite Tidy Tuesday entries from @nrennie.bsky.social & @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social ‘s ethnodrama “As Is”.

Excited for tomorrow’s final Research Design & Method Selection session. Going to discuss data visualisation & dissemination. Calling upon my favourite Tidy Tuesday entries from @nrennie.bsky.social & @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social ‘s ethnodrama “As Is”.

A desk with a laptop, keyboard, mouse and monitor on it alongside some coffee. There are cork boards behind it with art and sticky notes on them.

Very fond of my wee home office 🥰

Some glass half full (of shitt) thinking here: The “let’s be as explicitly cruel as possible” approach anti trans and anti migrant bigots are taking is going to backfire on them. Makes the job of communicating why solidarity & resistance is important soo much easier.

When the time comes that people have to at least act as if they care about trans people, do not forget and do not forgive a single person associated with this who isn’t speaking out about it now.

Don’t let them say it was a different time. Don’t let them say they didn’t know. We know.

I will also be joining a panel for @yvettetaylor.bsky.social ‘s Queer in a Wee Place book special event!

Nice Birthday week news: Will be speaking at two things at the 75th @britsoci.bsky.social conference! Myself and @harveyhumphrey.bsky.social are presenting on queering research methods & the role of teaching as a form of resistance.

*blinks as I provide feedback to multiple rounds of formative assesment* 🙃🤣

I feel personally attacked by this meme

Sketchbook next to a coffee with some drawings of owl skulls.

It’s my 30th today so celebrating by actually taking a coffee+drawing break on my busy teaching day! Second year in a row my Birthday has fallen on my busiest day 😅

Solidarity with Edinburgh colleagues!

This is such a massive loss. Alice Wong’s work is outstanding. We are all worse off without her. If you haven’t I would highly recommend you read her work. She’s my go to mention when discussing impactful people who studied Sociology. I’m gutted by this news 💔

Proton website showing their doc system

Think this is relatively new but looks like they might have a docs system set up now.

Has anyone used proton drive? I’m planning to ditch gmail but also looking for a google drive/docs alternative for working collaboratively? Suggestions welcome. Looking for options that prioritise privacy & not using our work to feed AIs.

It’s one of those days that I’m very thankful that most of my marking is research proposals & projects where students have autonomy over what they investigate. The variety makes my marking load bearable.Great seeing what students want to research. Would love to review how that changes over time.

Im now tittering on the bus thinking of a research project where you shout at seagulls while offering them food to see if the shouting puts them off 😅

Four zines on an orange background all either about categorisation or furbies

Thinking of applying to a sociology + arty related thing so pulled out some of my old zines. Feel like they say a lot about my flavour of weird 😅

Kinda want to revisit the boxes in context one as it explores differences between essentialism & social constructionism.

a stuffed frog is floating in a red bowl of water . ALT: a stuffed frog is floating in a red bowl of water .

Been responding to emails all afternoon and there is more than when I started 🙃

By the same token don’t care ask me about works that’s Harvey’s domain not mine 😂

An excellent resource from one of my favourite colleagues. And students on our Media Research Methods course get to hear from @kenglish.bsky.social with their lecture on questionnaires and surveys next week! (Please don’t ask me about numbers. Kirstie Ken is here for numbers. I only do words).

Have been using the Social Research Toolbox in my teaching for over a year now and find it really useful & hope others will to. Let me know what you think of it and if you apply it in your own teaching ☺️

The social research toolbox visual analogy. Full image description on link

Have been included in a collection of online resources for teaching research methods produced by the @ncrm.ac.uk .

www.ncrm.ac.uk/documents/Th...

Looks like the type of show that you would always be hungry while watching cause we are constantly stopping for coffee & cake. We solve mysteries like finding a lost first edition copy of Stone Butch Blues 😅

Some of the speakers at the GLINTS event from left to right: Xuqing, Sam, Sasha Kirstie Ken, Antonio Ivan & Harvey.

The GLINTS logo which is pink/coral text on a light navy background

On Tuesday we launched the new Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary & Trans Studies! Thank you to everyone who came to the launch event & my fellow co-directors. It was a great evening & the first of what Iam sure will be many fantastic GLINTS events.

Picture of the GLINTS logo. Glasgow Lab for Intersex Non-binary and Trans Studies

Thanks to everyone who came to the GLINTS launch yesterday. Great to see so many academics, students & supporters. Excited for the possibilities of this new space. Thanks to @echomikeromeo.bsky.social @notrightruth.bsky.social @kenglish.bsky.social @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & co-directors not on here

'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary & Trans Studies' printed in coral on a lavender background

A reminder that if you're in the area it is not too late to join us at the Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-Binary and Trans Studies launch event tomorrow afternoon! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glints-lau...