The ESRC offer their funded researchers a one-day media training session that provides the opportunity to develop practical media skills in a safe environment including guidance on engaging the media with confidence – and plenty of opportunity to practice.In small group settings run by journalists, the sessions are full of simulations providing each delegate with […]
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, […]
This course will provide participants with an understanding of how Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data are collected and coded, their structure, and how to clean and analyse HES data. A key focus will be on developing an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of HES, how inconsistencies arise, and approaches to deal with these. Participants […]
The ESRC offer their funded researchers a free one-day media training session that provides the opportunity to develop practical media skills in a safe environment including guidance on engaging the media with confidence – and plenty of opportunity to practice. Suitable for later stage PhD Researchers and Post-Doc Fellows. For further information visit the ESRC website and see the Media training […]
The ESRC offer their funded researchers a free one-day media training session that provides the opportunity to develop practical media skills in a safe environment including guidance on engaging the media with confidence – and plenty of opportunity to practice. Suitable for later stage PhD Researchers and Post-Doc Fellows. For further information visit the ESRC website and see the Media training […]
This four-day bootcamp is aimed at academics and postgraduate researchers across the social sciences wishing to build skills with computer programming as a research method. The event will provide participants with not only programming skills (i.e. the “how” of programming) but also explore Python as a tool that can be creatively applied to problems in the […]