Are you interested in making your research more inclusive, impactful, and grounded in lived experience? This two-day interactive workshop delivered by Dr Ben Scher, introduces doctoral students to the theory and […]
Run in partnership with NCRM Please note this event is not run by the SWDTP. Please direct enquiries to Lucy Haslam at the University of Bristol Centre for Multilevel Modelling: lucy.haslam@bristol.ac.uk […]
Introduction to Multilevel Modelling, Using MLwiN, R, or Stata 13-15 January 2026, Online via Zoom Closing date for applications is 23rd November 2025. This workshop is run by the University of […]
Every research project generates data. It’s the material that you gather, create, or interpret to answer your research questions; whether that is numbers, images, recordings, or documents. Good research data management […]
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 University […]
This talk will draw upon Alexander Betts’ recent book Social Science: A Very Short Introduction to offer a contemporary take on the philosophy of social science. It will focus in particular on […]
This two-day course provides a practical and accessible introduction to Bayesian statistics for applied research in any field. Students will benefit from a combination of lectures and discussion to explore […]
Educational researchers are often encouraged to reflect on their ‘philosophical positioning’, i.e. the ontological, epistemological and axiological (ethical) assumptions that underpin their research design. Meanwhile, in recent years in anglophone […]
Whether it’s ant colonies, traffic jams, fisheries, predator-prey interactions, segregation patterns in urban areas, or viruses spreading through populations, we are surrounded by complex systems. Those have lots of different […]
Years ago, you wrote a data analysis script. Hundreds of lines of R code, all in a single file. It was not beautiful, but it worked, and you got a […]