Queer Data: The challenge to research, researchers and open science. A conversation with Kevin Guyan

When we learned earlier this year about Kevin Guyan's book "Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action" we knew we had to have him on the podcast. 

We talk about what queer data is and what the queering of data is. The latter probably being less familiar to the listeners.  And we talk about the pros and cons of queer data. Why it can actually be problematic for the queer community to have more data collected about them. We talk queer competencies and the central question: Who should be in the room?

Finally we talk about ethics, responsible research and the challenges of open science. 

This is obviously a topic that is close to us personally. Still, we truly think that researchers, research managers, EDI consultants and other people involved in open science and science policy can learn much from this conversation. 

We hope you enjoy the conversation.

You can learn more about Kevin here:

• Twitter: @kevin_guyan
• Website: www.kevinguyan.com

Links to the texts Kevin mentioned during our interview:

 Jen Jack Giesking. Size Matters to Lesbians, Too: Queer Feminist Interventions into the Scale of Big Data

• Sara Ahmed. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life
• Sara Ahmed. ‘You end up doing the document rather than doing the doing’: Diversity, race equality and the politics of documentation

 

Some non-paywalled links to some of Kevin's writing that speak to some of the themes highlighted:

 

• The limits of numerical diversity (The Skinny, August 22)
• The need to look at data’s harmful history (The Conversation, February 22)
• Technology and the downsides of being counted (WIRED, December 21)

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Thanks for listening. Please share, rate, review and follow us on Twitter @Divrespod .

If you're interested in our work with diversity and internationalisation in research, please visit www.diversiunity.com.