• Centre for Qualitative Research Core Training begins

    Online

    The Centre for Qualitative Research from the University of Bath is running weekly online workshops for doctoral researchers funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP). Bringing together academics from across the SWDTP institutions interested in qualitative research, across disciplinary pathways, to collaboratively develop and deliver a programme of bespoke training for SWDTP doctoral researchers. […]

  • NCRM – A Friendly Introduction to Quantitative Methods

    Online

    About the event The aim of this course is to introduce students and researchers who have little to no quantitative training to the key concepts in quantitative methods in an accessible way. It is targeted at those who are writing theses/papers based on qualitative or review methods but who want to include some quantitative analysis […]

    £30
  • PGR Workshop – Narrative research: Possibilities and challenges of researching people’s stories

    Online

    Sign up on Eventbrite here Full-day workshop for PGR students at UoB interested in learning, discussing and sharing their work on narrative research.   Narrative research has gained popularity and relevance in diverse disciplines and has become a diverse, complex and contested field. Multiple theoretical approaches, methods, strategies of analysis coexist under the term “narrative”. […]

  • Feminist Perspectives and Methodologies

    Online

    Sign up on Eventbrite here About the session Taking inspiration from the epistemological and theoretical critiques and developments in feminisms, feminist methods and methodologies are about more than just including women in research or women studying women. Feminist methods tend to offer a challenge to knowledge production itself interlinked with feminist political intent, ethical processes, […]

  • Social media training for mental health research

    University of Bath Bath, United Kingdom

    Are you a PhD candidate researching child and adolescent mental health and interested in improving the dissemination of your research via social media? The SWDTP is providing a half-day training course facilitated by Andre Tomlin of The Mental Elf to improve your social media skills. The course will take place at the University of Bath […]

  • Creative Approaches to Ethical Qualitative Research

    Online

    The Centre for Qualitative Research is running weekly online workshops for doctoral researchers funded by the South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP). This event is part of the CQRs Qualitative Innovation Series. Find out more about the series here   Dr Shona McIntosh and Dr Rachel Wilder will discuss their recent work experimenting with creative, inclusive […]

  • NCRM: MethodsCon 2022

    etc.venues 11 Portland Street, Manchester

    MethodsCon is a wholly in-person event that will take place over two days in Manchester (UK) on 13-14 September 2022. The theme of the event is “rethinking the boundaries of methods in health and social science research”. Following two years of online delivery, NCRM is delighted to announce a return to in-person, live events. This […]

  • Open House – University of Bath

    University of Bath Bath, United Kingdom

    We at the SWDTP love connecting with our community and what better way than to come straight to you! The purpose of this meet-up is for students to have the chance to come and speak directly with the SWDTP team, it need not be a PhD or academic-related discussion either, we always love to simply […]

  • Unlock the Power of Corpus-Based Techniques for systematic literature reviews

    Conducting Literature Reviews

    Advances in computer technology made it possible to create and use large language databases often referred to as corpora in language studies. A recent development in the field is to apply corpus-based approaches to a wide range of areas beyond linguistic analysis (Pérez-Paredes, 2021; Seale & Charteris-Black, 2010). This interactive webinar will showcase how both […]

  • Conducting a Systematic Scoping Review: Methods and Insights from a Study on the Indian Diaspora and Education

    Conducting Literature Reviews

    This webinar, part of our Conducting Literature Reviews webinar series, explores the process of conducting a systematic scoping review. Using a worked example on education in the post-independence Indian diaspora, the session will outline the five-stage framework of Arksey and O’Malley (2005), covering search strategies, inclusion criteria, and thematic analysis. It will also discuss challenges […]