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Dr Katherine Keenan

Deputy Director (Training) of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science

Senior Lecturer in Demography/Population Geography

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3951

Email

Katherine.Keenan@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

I have a multidisciplinary background in anthropology, demography, and epidemiology. After a spell working in technology, I completed an MSc Demography and Health and PhD in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). I went on work as a postdoc at both LSHTM and LSE before joining 58³Ô¹Ï as a Lecturer in July 2017.

From April 2024 I am serving as Deputy Director (Training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, seconded 50% of my time to the University of Edinburgh.

Teaching

I help deliver the core quantitative methods teaching for undergraduate geography and sustainable development students in 58³Ô¹Ï, and also deliver research-led teaching in demography, population, health inequalities and life course studies.Ìý

From 2024 I am working as the Deputy Director (training) for the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science, which works to develop core and specialist training for social science postgraduate students across Scottish universities.Ìý

Research areas

My research interests are in complexity in global population health, and have a particular interest in women's health, reproduction and life course.Ìý I currently lead projects on the social dimensions of antimicrobial resistance, multimorbidity, and miscarriage.Ìý I primarily use quantitative methods, but am an experienced mixed-methods researcher.Ìý

My current projects:

• Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa- I was the Co-I and analysis lead on the MRC-funded and the NIHR-funded CARE project (2020-23), and still leading several impact-related activities and PhD projects on this topic.Ìý
• Social Determinants of Miscarriage: I am collaborating on an ERC funded (led by Heini Vaisenen at INED), which uses Scottish adminstrative data to better understand social dimensions of miscarriage.Ìý
• Integenerational Continuities in Family Building Behaviours and Inequality: I am a Co-I on the
• Multimorbidity trajectories and their determinants in Scotland: I am the PI of a data linkage project in Scotland, with partners in Edinburgh and 58³Ô¹Ï.
• I co-lead the RAIZ network which brings together AMR researchers across Latin America:
• Social burden of AMR - I am an associate researcher with the Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of Sao Paulo, a FAPESP-funded Institute of Research, Diffusion and Innovation. There I work on social dimensions of AMR.Ìý

PhD supervision

• SepidehÌýBenvari
• MadeleineÌýClarkson
• VictorÌýEmmanuel
• ThuÌýNguyen
• RuhamahÌýPaul
• EdwardÌýPomeroy

Selected publications

• Open access
  Šťastná, M., Mikolai, J., Finney, N. & Keenan, K. L., 19 Jan 2026, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies. Early View, 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Zheng, C., Abubakar, E., Keenan, K., Halliday, K., Dibben, C., Guthrie, B., Marshall, A. & Pearce, J., 1 Apr 2026, In: European Journal of Public Health. 36, 2, 7 p., ckaf238.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Lam, A., Keenan, K., Kulu, H. & Myrskylä, M., 23 Feb 2026, In: Population Studies. Latest Articles, p. 1-18 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Keenan, K., Kiffer, C. R. V., Carmo, E. V. S., Corrêa, J. S., de Abreu, A. L., Massuda, A., Gales, A. C., Colombo, A. L. & Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance of São Paulo (ARIES) group, 1 Mar 2025, In: IJID Regions. 14, 5 p., 100558.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Lam, A., Keenan, K., Myrskylä, M. & Kulu, H., Nov 2025, In: The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. 80, 11, p. 1-11 11 p., gbaf136.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Ke, X., Keenan, K. L. & Smith, V. A., Dec 2025, In: Discover Data. 3, 1, p. 1-21 21 p., 18.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Ke, X., Smith, V. A., Mshana, S. E., Asiimwe, B., Neema, S., Kiiru, J., Mushi, M. F., Mmbaga, B. T., Mwanga, J. R., Kibiki, G., Stelling, J., Gillespie, S. H., Green, D. L., Benvari, S., Sabiiti, W., Kesby, M., Lynch, A. G., Sandeman, A., Sloan, D. J. & Holden, M. T. & 2 others, Keenan, K. & HATUA Consortium, 4 Feb 2025, Research Square.

  Research output: Working paper › Preprint

• Open access
  Silago, V., Keenan, K., Mushi, M. F., Kansiime, C., Asiimwe, B., Sunday, B., Bazira, J., Sandeman, A., Sabiiti, W., Seni, J., Holden, M. T. G., Mshana, S. E. & behalf of the HATUA and CARE Consortia, Apr 2025, In: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 7, 2, p. 1-4 4 p., dlaf038.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Zlatkute, G., Crocamo, C., Specka, M., Keenan, K., Cioni, R. M., Roe, L., Zabłocka-Żytka, L., Woźniak-Prus, M., Appleton, J., Bekaert, S., Paavilainen, E., Rantanen, H., Jouet, E., Viganò, G. & Baldacchino, A., 10 Sept 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice. p. 1-22 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Keenan, K. L., Corrêa, J. S., Sringernyuang, L., Nayiga, S. & Chandler, C. I. R., 1 Apr 2025, In: JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance. 7, 2, 10 p., dlae208.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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