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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191017T090000
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SUMMARY:ESRC Media Training
DESCRIPTION: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.\nSuitable for later stage PhD Researchers and Post-Doc Fellows. \n  \nFor further information visit the ESRC website and see the Media training terms and conditions. For anything else please contact esrcmediatraining@esrc.ac.uk \nSign up on the ESRC booking form\, but hurry! Places fill up very quickly!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/esrc-media-training-13/
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191010T080000
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SUMMARY:ESRC Media Training
DESCRIPTION: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.\nSuitable for later stage PhD Researchers and Post-Doc Fellows. \n  \nFor further information visit the ESRC website and see the Media training terms and conditions. For anything else please contact esrcmediatraining@esrc.ac.uk \nSign up on the ESRC booking form\, but hurry! Places fill up very quickly!
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/esrc-media-training-12/
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191003T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T081644
CREATED:20190619T124054Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Hospital Episode Statistics
DESCRIPTION: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 will also learn how to ensure individuals’ anonymity and confidentiality when carrying out analyses and publishing results based on HES. The course consists of a mixture of lectures and practicals for which participants will use Stata software to clean and analyse HES data.\nThe course covers:\n• HES data collection and coding\n• HES data structure\n• How to clean and manage HES data\n• How to ensure anonymity and confidentiality\n• How to carry out basic analyses using HES data\n• Sources of variation in HES data\n• How to apply for HES data \nBy the end of the course participants will: \n• understand how and why HES data are collected \n• become aware of the strength and weaknesses of using HES data for research\n• know how to carry out basic cleaning\, management and analysis tasks using HES data\n• know how to ensure anonymity and confidentiality when using HES \nThis course is aimed at researchers and analysts at any level working in universities\, local authorities\, civil service\, the NHS\, private sector or third sector organisations. \nPre-requisites \nPrevious experience of programming in Stata\, R or SAS will therefore be helpful\, but Stata code and instructions will be provided to all participants. There are no pre-requisites for the lectures. \n  \nCost \nThe fee per teaching day is: \n• £30 per day for UK/EU registered students\n• £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions\, UK/EU Research Councils researchers\, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions.\n• £220 per day for all other participants \nAll fees include event materials\, lunch\, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/introduction-to-hospital-episode-statistics/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190916T090000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190916T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T081644
CREATED:20190930T091709Z
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SUMMARY:Emotions in Research
DESCRIPTION: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\, name\, accept and then potentially act on).\n  \nThis training event will draw on embodied therapeutic and creative techniques to focus on the presence of emotions in research – how we can attend to and become aware of them in ourselves as researchers and in our participants\, how we can hold emotional space for ourselves and our participants to express emotions safely\, how we can capture the emotional resonance created in research\, again in ourselves and in our participants\, and how we can process the emotions we feel directly\, and as a result of our participants’ experiences. \nCourse will run from 09:30-16:00 \nParticpiants will be asked to wear comfortable clothes to allow them to move freely and bring with you anyting that allows them to sit comfortably (cushions\, throws\, blankets) \n  \nCost \nThe fee per teaching day is: \n• £30 per day for UK/EU registered students\n• £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions\, UK/EU Research Councils researchers\, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions.\n• £220 per day for all other participants \nAll fees include event materials\, lunch\, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs. \nCancellation Policy: Please be reminded that you will be charged the full registration fee if you cancel your place within 4 weeks before the training delivery date or you fail to attend. \nIf you are able to fill the place on the course you are cancelling then the cancellation charge will not apply. \nHead to the NCRM Website for details
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/emotions-in-research/
LOCATION:London School of Economics Room:32L.B.07
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190912T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190913T153000
DTSTAMP:20260511T081644
CREATED:20190930T091453Z
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SUMMARY:Integrating and analysing multiple datasets
DESCRIPTION: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: \n• Produce data descriptions and summaries to understand the data.\n• Use statistical tools to clean and manipulate data\n• Integrate relational data\n• Identify and handle missing data\n• Visualise data and explore patterns\n• Improve their interdisciplinary team working skills \nCourse Leaders: Dr Ana Ivon Morales Gomez (UK Data Service-University of Manchester)\nProf Mark Elliot (University of Manchester) \nThis course will introduce participants to the complexities of analysing data from multiple sources. It will cover issues of data quality\, cleaning\, derivation and linkage. \nThe increasing availability of data on all aspects of modern life – whether such data be open\, archived or proprietary – has started to open up the possibility of drawing on multiple datasets to solve analytical problems. \nGetting to know the data available is a fundamental step in data analysis. Not only does it allow us to know what they contain\, their scope and shape\, but also provides insights about the quality\, format and other potential issues that affect the usability of the data. This is especially important when working with data from different sources\, where inconsistencies between the different sources are more prone to occur presenting problems with merging or linking the datasets together. \nDay 1 \nThe morning session will be focused on data cleaning and manipulation as an essential part of data analysis. In this session\, we will learn how to identify the type of cleaning a particular data set needs in preparation for the data analysis. We will learn different techniques and practical tools to explore and manipulate the data with an emphasis on: checking the quality of the data\, removing unnecessary data\, creating new variables and dealing with potential errors and inconsistencies. \nThe afternoon session will be firstly devoted to discussing issues around missing data\, with the goal of learning to identify missing data mechanisms and how different methods are applied to address missingness\, depending on the underlying mechanism. Then\, we will move on to discuss challenges around linking relational data and learn different methods to integrate data from different sources. \nAll sessions will include a mixture of presentations and hands-on practical activities. All the practical exercises will be done using R Studio. These practical sessions will give participants the opportunity to apply the main concepts discussed in the lectures to real-world data. \nDay 2  \nDay 2 will focus on working in teams to produce an analysis requiring them to work on multiple datasets. At the end of the day each team will present their solution. \nOn completion of this workshop\, participants will gain new skills to understand the challenges of using real-world data and to apply a range of data analysis tools to process\, clean and transform data into a suitable format for data analysis. Participants will also learn how to work with multiple datasets and apply practical methods for handling missing data. \nIntroduction to R webinar (optional) \nThe course will be taught using R. For those with no prior experience an introductory webinar is designed with the purpose of giving a brief introduction to R to participants with no previous experience using R or R Studio. A private link to the webinar will be sent to all participants. \nDay One- 10:00 -5:00 pm \nDay Two – 9:00-3:30 pm  \nReading materials (not compulsory) \nWickham\, H; Grolemund\, G. 2016”R for Data Science” available online: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/ \n  \nCost \n• £30 per day for UK/EU registered students\n• £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions\, UK/EU Research Councils researchers\, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions.\n• £220 per day for all other participants
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/integrating-and-analysing-multiple-datasets/
LOCATION:Roscoe Building\, University of Manchester\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190911
DTSTAMP:20260511T081644
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SUMMARY:Questionnaire Design
DESCRIPTION: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 and hands-on exercises. \nThe course covers: \n\nKey principles of question design (from cognitive\, linguistic and practical perspectives) (with Workshop)\nSpecial issues for factual questions (with Workshop) – Highlights from Appendix on advanced topics for factual questions focusing on understanding memory issues and solutions.\nSpecial issues for subjective questions (with Workshop) – Highlights from Appendix on attitude change\nIssues in measuring validity and reliability\nHighlights from appendix on asking sensitive questions\nCombining individual questions into a questionnaire\nSpecial guidelines for self-completion surveys (e.g.\, web or paper-based surveys) versus quantitative interview surveys (face-to-face and telephone) (with Group Discussion)\nAn introduction to the various methods to test survey questions\n“Open surgery” where participants can receive comments on their own questionnaires in a group setting or one-on-one with Dr Campanelli\n\nBy the end of the course participants will: \n\nHave a greater awareness of the different aspects involved in writing good survey questions and questionnaires\, taking into account the important differences between questionnaire design for quantitative interview surveys versus self-completion surveys\nHave the tools to critique existing surveys\nHave the knowledge to be able to write their own high quality questionnaires\n\nThis course is aimed at anyone in any discipline wishing to improve their survey questionnaires. The course will benefit people who anticipate designing a questionnaire in the future but also those in the role of critiquing commissioned or existing research. \nPreparatory Reading \nKrosnick\, J. A. and Presser\, S. (2010)\, Questionnaire Design in J. D. Wright and P.V. Marsden (eds)\, Handbook of Survey Research (Second Edition)\, San Diego\, CA: Elsevier. \nIt is fine to read the 2009 version submitted for publication and available at https://web.stanford.edu/dept/communication/faculty/krosnick/docs/2009/2009_handbook_krosnick.pdf. \n  \nLevel: \nEntry (no or almost no prior knowledge) \n  \nCost: \nThe fee per teaching day is: \n• £30 per day for UK/EU registered students\n• £60 per day for staff at UK/EU academic institutions\, UK/EU Research Councils researchers\, UK/EU public sector staff and staff at UK/EU registered charity organisations and recognised UK/EU research institutions.\n• £220 per day for all other participants \nAll fees include event materials\, lunch\, morning and afternoon tea. They do not include travel and accommodation costs.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/questionnaire-design/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190621
DTSTAMP:20260511T081644
CREATED:20190226T164117Z
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SUMMARY:ESRC Media Training
DESCRIPTION: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 expert advice\, allowing them to develop their interview technique\, explain the findings of their research\, and pitch their story. \nFor more information\, click on the link:\nhttp://www.esrc.ac.uk/skills-and-careers/media-training/
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/esrc-media-training-11/
LOCATION:London\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Training
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