As a rule, our courses cost £30 a day for UK/EU students and £60 a day for UK/EU academics, researchers or public service staff. Register for the event here Citizens’ juries are an innovative process that enables members of the public to give considered views and recommendations on complex and often controversial topics of a social […]
As a rule, our courses cost £30 a day for UK/EU students and £60 a day for UK/EU academics, researchers or public service staff. Register for the event here. Many students in the social sciences, especially in political science, public policy and public administration who decide to undertake qualitative or interpretive research feel they are unqualified […]
As a rule, our courses cost £30 a day for UK/EU students and £60 a day for UK/EU academics, researchers or public service staff. Register for the event here. In this one day course we will explore how to use R to import, manage and process spatial data. We will also cover the process of making […]
As a rule, our courses cost £30 a day for UK/EU students and £60 a day for UK/EU academics, researchers or public service staff. Register for the event here This course aims to equip people who attend with methodological knowledge and research skills to be able to design, conduct and critically appraise evaluation research. It takes […]
Mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) are increasingly being used by respondents to complete Web surveys. This presents a number of design challenges for survey researchers. Smartphones also offer a number of added possibilities for survey designers, such as the use of GPS to track movement, apps to trigger measurement at set times (ecological momentary assessment), […]
The ESRC National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) will be holding its 14th residential summer school in Southampton in July 2019. The topic of this year’s summer school is a response to increasing interest from policy-makers in sponsoring research that is in some way inclusive of the people the policy affects, changing the dynamics between […]
This workshop aims to give participants a range of practical approaches they can adopt when writing about methodology in the social sciences, with a particular focus on writing a PhD methodology chapter. Using a range of exercises throughout, the course focuses on 20 or so writing strategies and thought experiments designed to provide more clarity […]
Have you ever discovered too late that your survey questionnaires did not deliver useful data? This course is about learning to write effective survey questions and combining them into a meaningful questionnaire. This course is designed to remedy that situation. This course combines practical knowledge with advice from the current survey research literature, featuring lectures […]
This workshop will provide participants with conceptual and technical skills to understand the processes of using data from different sources. The workshop will be comprised of presentations and practical exercises using data from the UK Data Service and open data sources.This workshop will enable participants to: • Produce data descriptions and summaries to understand the […]
Some authors describe the academy as a place devoid of emotion (Bloch, 2012), however emotions are a fundamental part of how we live in and experience the world around us. Researchers and participants have emotions and feel emotional responses to experiences, though these can be hard to acknowledge, express, capture and process (that is recognise, […]