• From Theory to Practice: Participatory Methods for Doctoral Students

    6 Worcester St, Oxford OX1 2BX

    Are you interested in making your research more inclusive, impactful, and grounded in lived experience? This two-day interactive workshop delivered by Dr Ben Scher, introduces doctoral students to the theory and practice of participatory research methods. Where: In-person |6 Worcester St, Oxford OX1 2BX When: 10.12.2025 & 11.12.2025|10:00-16:00 Advert & Registration:  https://granduniondtp.web.ox.ac.uk/event/from-theory-to-practice-participatory-methods-for-doctoral-students-2  This event is not organised by the […]

  • What is Research Data? Practical Guidance on Organising and Sharing your Files and Findings

    Data Analysis Webinar Series

    Every research project generates data. It’s the material that you gather, create, or interpret to answer your research questions; whether that is numbers, images, recordings, or documents. Good research data management and sharing are essential for making your work accessible, your methods transparent, and your findings easy to use and build upon. Funders, publishers, and universities […]

  • Analysing large-scale assessment data

    Data Analysis Webinar Series

    Issues with using police data to investigate offending: A research perspective Dr Ioana Crivatu, Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham Dr Ruth Spence, Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University Police data is an important source of information for researchers about investigations, suspects, and victims. However, crime records can be problematic to work with. Here […]

  • Qualitative Research Symposium – Applications & Call for Papers

    The Centre for Qualitative Research looks forward to inviting you all to the University of Bath to ponder important questions around participation, access and inclusion in qualitative research.   If you would like to attend or apply for the call, check out the link below.

  • Philosophy of Social Science

    Online

    This talk will draw upon Alexander Betts’ recent book Social Science: A Very Short Introduction to offer a contemporary take on the philosophy of social science. It will focus in particular on the underpinnings of interdisciplinary social science, arguing that across disciplines, the social sciences have more in common than that which divides them.  Where: Hybrid | GUDTP […]

  • Bayesian Statistics for Applied Research

    London School of Economics and Political Science

    This two-day course provides a practical and accessible introduction to Bayesian statistics for applied research in any field. Students will benefit from a combination of lectures and discussion to explore fundamental concepts unlocking the potential to design bespoke statistical analyses based on your data and hypotheses as well as practical exercises to gain hands-on experience […]

  • Philosophy as method for data analysis in research

    Data Analysis Webinar Series

    Educational researchers are often encouraged to reflect on their ‘philosophical positioning’, i.e. the ontological, epistemological and axiological (ethical) assumptions that underpin their research design. Meanwhile, in recent years in anglophone educational research departments, using philosophy as a ‘method’ in its own right, as opposed to a tool supporting empirical research, has tended to go out […]

  • Messy and mixed: working with quant and qual data

    Data Analysis Webinar Series

    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 […]

  • Validating constructs through quantitative sampling

    Data Analysis Webinar Series

    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 […]

  • Negotiating positionality in data analysis

    Data Analysis Webinar Series

    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 […]