A collection of webinars featuring presentations by over 30 social science researchers about conducting data analysis in actual research projects. Throughout the series, we will explore all kinds of data, methods, approaches, and stages of data analysis. In addition to the achievements and breakthrough findings, we will also highlight the nitty gritty details – the challenges, frustrations, surprises and change of plans that researchers could expect. Through these reflections, we hope to help PGRs and other researchers be better prepared for the ups and downs of their data analysis journey.
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What is Research Data? Practical Guidance on Organising and Sharing your Files and Findings
20/01/26
Speaker
Dr Jade Godsall, Assistant Research Support Librarian in Research Data Management and Digital Scholarship at the University of Bristol
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Analysing large-scale assessment data
22/01/26
Issues with using police data to investigate offending: A research perspective
Dr Ioana Crivatu, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham
Dr Ruth Spence, Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex UniversityPreparation of a Large-scale Assessment in Education and its use in a Quantitative Intersectional analysis in R
Dr Natalia López-Hornickel, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Roehampton University; SWDTP alumniSession chair
Prof. George Leckie, Professor of Social Statistics; Co-Director, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, School of Education, University of Bristol
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Philosophy as method for data analysis in research
10/02/26
Speakers
Prof. Janet Orchard, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion in Teacher Education at the University of Bristol
Dr Naomi Hodgson, Reader in Educational Philosophy & Theory at Edge Hill University
Anna Park, Edge Hill University
Cathy Shail, University of Bristol
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Messy and mixed: working with quant and qual data
26/02/26
Analysing Mixed Ideologies Using Mixed Methods
Simone Long, PhD researcher at The University of ExeterMaking Sense of Messy Legal Data: Analysing Climate Litigation in Latin America and the Caribbean
Cristian Heredia Ligorria, PhD researcher in Socio-legal Studies at UWE BristolSession chair
Prof. Rich Harris, Professor of Quantitative Social Geography, University of Bristol; SWDTP Director
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Validating constructs through quantitative sampling
03/03/26
Using multi-dimensional experience sampling via smartphones to map thoughtemotion interactions in daily life
Anqi Lei, PhD researcher at the University of PlymouthMeasuring sensitive constructs in conservative contexts
Sara Yadollahi, PhD researcher at the University of Bath
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Negotiating positionality in data analysis
12/03/26
Reflexive Thematic Analysis on researcher’s position as an “in-betweener”
Claire Hadfield, Senior Lecturer and PhD researcher in Education at Plymouth Marjon University
How to prioritise participant voice in data analysis when a third voice is present – the use of advocates in research
Kim Collett, Lecturer in Education at The Open University
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Making sense of lived experiences through narratives
19/03/26
Understanding home deathcare through narrative
Sam Hooker, SWDTP-funded PhD researcher in Social Policy at the University of Bath
Putting a light in the window: using creative writing to focus analysis in relationally
engaged research
Luci Gorell Barnes, PhD researcher in Education at UWE Bristol
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Visual Mapping for Data Analysis
31/03/26
Visual Mapping of Process Data
Prof. Peter Turnbull, Professor of Management at the University of Bristol
Art-based Mapping: An Analysis of where Teenagers Spend their Breaktime in School
Zifi Tung, PhD researcher at the University of Bath