- Location
- Room 507
- Series/Type
- DLSPH Event, Student Event
- Format
- Hybrid
- Dates
- June 4, 2026 from 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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Presented by the RISE Centre for Queer and Trans Health Research …
Join the RISE Centre for Queer and Trans Health Research, along with the 2S/LGBTQ+ Health Hub, for part one of our two part “Sex and Gender Measurement in Surveys” lecture series. This lecture is open to anyone who is curious about how to ask better questions about sex and gender in surveys and how to use sex and gender data in secondary analyses.
Dr. A.J. Lowik, is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Lethbridge. Dr. Lowik led the development of the Centre for Gender and Sexual Health Equity’s “Gender & Sex in Methods & Measurement: Research Equity Toolkit” project, which provides free, open-source tools, detailing practical guidance for researchers in their pursuit of accuracy, precision, and inclusion when it comes to how sex and gender as concepts – and intersex, trans and Two-Spirit people by extension – show up in their health research.
This lecture will draw upon Dr. Lowik’s expertise when helping co-create the fourth tool in the Canadian Gender & Sex in Methods and Measurement toolkit . Rather than prescribing a single “best” approach, in alignment with the toolkit, this lecture encourages a thoughtful and critical interrogation of the advantages and shortcomings of different approaches – where the ‘best’ measure in one respect may have shortcomings in others. We will focus on best practices such as the process of selecting measures with intentionality, and reporting on those intentions with transparency, humility, and accountability.
This lecture welcomes questions about best practices in sex and gender survey measurements and will create an open and inclusive environment for anyone working to integrate sex and gender measurements into their quantitative or qualitative work.
A following lecture on Two-Spirit best practices and inclusion in survey design will take place on Monday, September 21st at 1:30 EST with Dr. TJ Salway from Simon Fraser University.
For any questions, contact RISE coordinator, Mac Stewart, mackenzie.stewart@utoronto.ca.