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Dr Karen Jeffrey

  • Centre for Data Science and AI Fellow (Research Services)

Biography

I'm a Fellow in the University of Glasgow's Centre for Data Science & AI. My work sits at the intersection of economics and data science, exploring how societies can harness the benefits of AI while managing its risks. I hold a PhD in Political Economy from King's College London and completed a Postdoc in Medical Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

My research examines how generative AI is reshaping labour markets and how public and political attitudes are responding. My aim is to generate evidence-based insights that can inform the design of politically viable policy responses to AI-driven disruption.

Research interests

  • Political Economy of AI
  • Computational Social Science
  • Causal Inference
  • Data science & AI methods (LLMs, NLP etc.)

Publications

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2025

McCabe, R. et al. (2025) Effect modification and interaction between ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in severe COVID-19: analyses of linked national data for Scotland. BMJ Open, 15(4), e092727. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092727) (PMID:40228847) (PMCID:PMC11997826)

2024

Shi, T. et al. (2024) Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 117(7), pp. 232-246. (doi: 10.1177/01410768231223584) (PMID:38345538) (PMCID:PMC11450722)

Jeffrey, K. et al. (2024) Prevalence and risk factors for long COVID among adults in Scotland using electronic health records: a national, retrospective, observational cohort study. EClinicalMedicine, 71, 102590. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102590) (PMID:38623399) (PMCID:PMC11016856)

Amele, S. et al. (2024) Quality of ethnicity data within Scottish health records and implications of misclassification for ethnic inequalities in severe COVID-19: a national linked data study. Journal of Public Health, 46(1), pp. 116-122. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdad196) (PMID:37861114) (PMCID:PMC10901260)

2023

Morrison, K. et al. (2023) Predictors of incomplete COVID-19 vaccine schedule among adults in Scotland: two retrospective cohort analyses of the primary schedule and third dose. Vaccine, 41(40), pp. 5863-5876. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.07.070) (PMID:37598025)

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Number of items: 5.

Articles

McCabe, R. et al. (2025) Effect modification and interaction between ethnicity and socioeconomic factors in severe COVID-19: analyses of linked national data for Scotland. BMJ Open, 15(4), e092727. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-092727) (PMID:40228847) (PMCID:PMC11997826)

Shi, T. et al. (2024) Risk of winter hospitalisation and death from acute respiratory infections in Scotland: national retrospective cohort study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 117(7), pp. 232-246. (doi: 10.1177/01410768231223584) (PMID:38345538) (PMCID:PMC11450722)

Jeffrey, K. et al. (2024) Prevalence and risk factors for long COVID among adults in Scotland using electronic health records: a national, retrospective, observational cohort study. EClinicalMedicine, 71, 102590. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102590) (PMID:38623399) (PMCID:PMC11016856)

Amele, S. et al. (2024) Quality of ethnicity data within Scottish health records and implications of misclassification for ethnic inequalities in severe COVID-19: a national linked data study. Journal of Public Health, 46(1), pp. 116-122. (doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdad196) (PMID:37861114) (PMCID:PMC10901260)

Morrison, K. et al. (2023) Predictors of incomplete COVID-19 vaccine schedule among adults in Scotland: two retrospective cohort analyses of the primary schedule and third dose. Vaccine, 41(40), pp. 5863-5876. (doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.07.070) (PMID:37598025)

This list was generated on Sat Apr 4 10:08:34 2026 BST.

Prior publications

Article

Syed Ahmar Shah, Karen Jeffrey, Chris Robertson, Aziz Sheikh (2025) Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on elective care backlog trends, recovery efforts, and capacity needs to address backlogs in Scotland (2013–2023): a descriptive analysis and modelling study The Lancet Regional Health - Europe Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 2666-7762 (doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101188)

Karen Jeffrey et al. (2024) Deriving and validating a risk prediction model for long COVID: a population-based, retrospective cohort study in Scotland Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 1758-1095 (doi: 10.1177/01410768241297833)

Igor Rudan et al. (2024) Selecting the most informative positive and negative controls for self-controlled case series (SCCS): Rationale, approach, and lessons from studies investigating the safety of COVID-19 vaccines Journal of Global Health Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 2047-2986 (doi: 10.7189/jogh.14.03037)

Calum Macdonald et al. (2024) Association between antibody responses post-vaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes in Scotland npj Vaccines Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 2059-0105 (doi: 10.1038/s41541-024-00898-w)

Karen Jeffrey, Konstantinos Matakos (2024) Automation anxiety, fairness perceptions, and redistribution: Past experiences condition the response to future job loss Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 0167-2681 (doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2024.02.038)

Tristan Millington et al. (2024) Caveats in reporting of national vaccine uptake Journal of Global Health Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 2047-2986 (doi: 10.7189/jogh.14.03006)

Steven Kerr et al. (2023) External validation of the QCovid 2 and 3 risk prediction algorithms for risk of COVID-19 hospitalisation and mortality in adults: a national cohort study in Scotland BMJ Open Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 2044-6055 (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075958)

Steven Kerr et al. (2023) Understanding and reporting odds ratios as rate-ratio estimates in case-control studies Journal of Global Health Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 2047-2986 (doi: 10.7189/jogh.13.04101)

Karen Jeffrey (2021) Automation and the future of work: How rhetoric shapes the response in policy preferences Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Karen Jeffrey. ISSN 0167-2681 (doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.10.019)

Thesis

Karen Jeffrey (2021) Essays on the Political Economy of Automation Karen Jeffrey.


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