• Introduction to agent-based modelling in NetLogo Introduction to agent-based modelling in NetLogo

    6 Worcester St, Oxford OX1 2BX

    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 parts that interact in non-linear ways, giving rise to patterns that are difficult to predict by looking at individual components in isolation. And when these […]

  • Reproducible data analysis pipelines in R

    6 Worcester St, Oxford OX1 2BX

    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 great paper out of it. But now some new version of one of the datasets you used has come out, and there is also that […]

  • Data Analysis Webinar Series

    Messy and mixed: working with quant and qual data

    Making 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 Bristol My doctoral research investigates rights-based climate litigation (RBCL) in Latin America and the Caribbean applying a socio-legal methodology and from a decolonial perspective. Chapter 3 of my thesis is […]

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    Validating constructs through quantitative sampling

    Using multi-dimensional experience sampling via smartphones to map thought-emotion interactions in daily life Anqi Lei, PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth Patterns of on-going thought have crucial implications for emotional health. In the present study, we used multi-dimensional experience sampling (MDES) via smartphones to examine how daily-life thought patterns relate to concurrent affective states […]

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    Negotiating positionality in data analysis

    Reflexive Thematic Analysis on researcher’s position as an “in-betweener” Claire Hadfield, Senior Lecturer and PhD researcher in Education at Plymouth Marjon University Reflecting on my journey using Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) in a qualitative longitudinal study of early career secondary teachers’ professional identities, I draw on my position as an “in-betweener”—moving from school teaching into […]

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    Making sense of lived experiences through narratives

    Understanding home deathcare through narrative. Sam Hooker, SWDTP-funded PhD researcher in Social Policy at the University of Bath My PhD project used a narrative methodology to capture people’s experiences caring for the dead at home. Two interviews were conducted with participants. The first consisted of asking them to tell me their experience, while the second was […]

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    Visual mapping for data analysis

    Visual mapping of process data Prof. Peter Turnbull, Professor of Management at the University of Bristol In several studies we have used visual mapping to depict changes over time and the (inter)action of the key players that we focus on in our research. We draw on the work of Anne Langley and others on “process […]

  • Excellence at Interview- Grants and Jobs Masterclass

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    An interview is a precious opportunity to make a positive, memorable impression and advance a researcher’s career. Thorough preparation is vital, and that means working on style as well as content. The way candidates conduct themselves, present ideas and respond to questions has a powerful influence on the way they are perceived. Even an academic […]

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    Posthuman data analysis?

    “Entanglement makes all the categories of humanist qualitative research problematic.” (Lather and St. Pierre, 2013) How does our analysis shift when we stop asking ‘What does this data show?’ and instead ask ‘Who and what is this data entangled with, and how can we stay accountable to those relations?’ This webinar invites pondering of the […]

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    Handling data in decolonial research

    The Messy Realities of Anticolonial Research: Reimagining Language Practices in Secondary Education in Nigeria Mercy Martins, PhD researcher in Education at the University of Bath My research explores how language practices in Nigerian secondary schools can be reimagined using anticolonial concepts of agency and resistance. The research design was indigenous, weaving qualitative, creative, and participatory […]