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• Director,
• Research Champion for the Ethics, Responsibility and Sustainability Committee (UEBS)
• Course organiser on Business Ethics (UG Hons)
• MSc and UG dissertation advisor
• Affiliate of 
• Affiliate of Ìý(2024-25)

I joined the University of Edinburgh Business School as a Chancellor's Fellow in 2024. My research explores the intersection of data and identity, with a particular focus on data practices that engage LGBTQ communities in the UK.

Between 2021 and 2024, I worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow on an international project investigating . Before joining the University of Glasgow, I worked for a higher education organisation that focuses on diversity, equality and inclusion among staff and students in universities and colleges. In 2016, I completed a PhD in history at University College London.

I am a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s , sit on Young Scot’s  and chair the board of the LGBTI human rights charity .

I am the author of  (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), which examines the collection, analysis and use of gender, sex and sexuality data, particularly as it relates to LGBTQ people. My work on queer data has had broad academic, policy and societal impacts, including the design of gender, sex and sexuality questions in UK censuses. In 2022, I presented evidence from my research at the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights & Civil Justice Committee on data impacts of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill.

I am interested in the datafication of identity characteristics in organisational contexts, the tools used to gather this information (e.g. workplace diversity monitoring forms) and how these methods work in a generative way: they do not merely count, categorise and manage our identities (e.g. ‘gay', ‘Black’ and ‘woman’), they shape how we understand identity and what we collectively do based on that understanding.

In 2025, I publish my second book  (Bloomsbury Academic), which reveals how the fight for LGBTQ equalities in the UK is shaped – and constrained – by the classifications we encounter every day.

Kevin discusses how his research has influenced global conversations on the collection, analysis, and presentation of gender, sex, and sexuality data.