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SUMMARY:Digital Research Skills for Social Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Date: 3rd – 6th March 2026 (four consecutive mornings) \nLocation: online \nThe National Centre for Research Methods are offering the opportunity to attend this introductory short course for the reduced price of £25 for all participants. Improve the efficiency and reliability of your research. Learn foundational computational skills including automating tasks using the command line on your computer\, tracking changes to your work using version control and building simple programs using the programming language python. These skills are the foundation of many powerful data analysis techniques including using Artificial Intelligence or High Performance Computing. \nPlaces are limited so don’t delay. Book your place here: https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/show.php?article=14333 [ncrm.ac.uk]
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/digital-research-skills-for-social-scientists/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260303T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T025724
CREATED:20251205T142720Z
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SUMMARY:Validating constructs through quantitative sampling
DESCRIPTION:Using multi-dimensional experience sampling via smartphones to map thought-emotion interactions in daily life\nAnqi Lei\, PhD researcher at the University of Plymouth \nPatterns 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 (valence\, arousal\, stress) as well as how alexithymia traits (reflecting atypical emotional awareness) modulate these thought patterns across a range of affective and social situations. Principal Component Analysis of the MDES data identified four latent thought dimensions: future-self orientation\, intrusive distraction\, sensory engagement\, and task-focus. Linear Mixed Models revealed different associations between thought dimensions and affective states\, which may reflect distinct adaptive and maladaptive cognitive processes\, particularly in relation to alexithymia. High overall alexithymia predicted fewer future-self-oriented thoughts as well as more different sensory engagement across affective and social contexts. Regarding specific facets of alexithymia\, difficulty identifying feelings selectively reduced future-self orientation during intense sadness\, and externally oriented thinking rendered thought patterns less sensitive to affective contexts. By mapping affective experiences onto thought dimensions in daily life\, these findings uncover cognitive pathways that support emotional well-being\, providing a scalable framework for understanding variability in human affective experience. \n  \nMeasuring sensitive constructs in conservative contexts\nSara Yadollahi\, PhD researcher at the University of Bath \nAs a psychometrician\, I was responsible for data gathering and analysis in the project: “Development and Validation of an Iranian Scale for Problematic Online Pornography Use\,” which used a descriptive-correlational design and online non-random snowball sampling. A total of 1\,921 adults (813 women\, 1\,108 men) completed the scales: the Iranian Scale for Problematic Online Pornography Use (developed by the research team following multiple steps\, including a thorough literature review) and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). \nData were analysed using AMOS and SPSS. Confirmatory factor analysis supported a seven-factor model—Salience\, Mood Modification\, Tolerance and Escalation\, Withdrawal\, Relapse\, Conflict and Problems\, and Guilt (RMSEA=0.07\, CFI=0.91\, df=228). Construct validity was confirmed through intercorrelations among subscales and the total score; discriminant validity by the Fornell-Larcker criterion; convergent validity by Average Variance Extracted (AVE); and criterion validity by correlations with pornography use frequency (r=0.56)\, duration per session (r=0.35)\, and frequency of masturbation with (r=0.56) and without pornography (r=0.25). Reliability was strong (CR=0.98\, α=0.93). \nIn this webinar\, I will focus on the data analysis process\, including designing the scale with the research team\, conducting the pilot study\, being creative in measuring sensitive constructs in conservative contexts\, working with a large dataset\, and ensuring participant anonymity during data collection and analysis. \nThis session is part of the SWDTP Data Analysis Webinar Series. Visit the following link for further information and registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/swdtp/1956811
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/validating-constructs-through-quantitative-sampling/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260312T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T025724
CREATED:20251205T142902Z
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SUMMARY:Negotiating positionality in data analysis
DESCRIPTION:Reflexive Thematic Analysis on researcher’s position as an “in-betweener”\nClaire Hadfield\, Senior Lecturer and PhD researcher in Education at Plymouth Marjon University \nReflecting 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 initial teacher education. This role placed me close enough to share aspects of participants’ experiences while also able to view them from a different perspective. Working with interviews\, viva reflections\, and journals\, I returned to the data repeatedly in an iterative process of theme development. RTA supported deep engagement through analytic journaling and participant discussion. I will discuss how insider knowledge both enriched and complicated the analysis\, how slowing the process helped avoid premature conclusions\, and how reflexivity was essential in managing bias. The session will share practical strategies and honest reflections on the challenges and insights that came from applying RTA in a long-term\, identity-focused study. \n  \nHow to prioritise participant voice in data analysis when a third voice is present – the use of advocates in research\nKim Collett\, Lecturer in Education at The Open University \nFor my PhD I conducted interpretivist research\, using research driven photo elicitation interviews and thematic analysis\, comparing experiences of inclusion in the classroom. For some of the participants adjustments were needed to ensure the research was accessible. This included having advocates present during data collection. One of the under explored\, issues with advocacy in research is how to deal with advocate voices in the data. The words of advocates will appear in verbatim transcripts and removing them can change meaning/context. However\, keeping them means they become part of the analysis and introduce a third voice. \nI kept the voices of advocates and analysed these along with the words of the participants. However\, careful consideration was needed to determine if the data was really reflecting the experiences/thoughts of the participant when the advocate was speaking. Sometimes it was clear as the participant would verbally or non-verbally agree/disagree\, or the content would reflect other parts of the conversation. However\, sometimes there was no confirmation. Reflexivity was key to assessing this and the findings chapter had to carefully cover the use of advocates when a finding was based on or informed by the advocate. \nThis session is part of the SWDTP Data Analysis Webinar Series. Visit the following link for further information and registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/swdtp/1956811
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/negotiating-positionality-in-data-analysis/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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SUMMARY:Social Network Analysis Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Networks shape nearly every aspect of our lives\, from the spread of ideas and diseases to the dynamics of friendship\, crime\, and power. This two-day workshop introduces the theory and practice of Social Network Analysis (SNA) using R\, combining insights from sociology\, data science\, and computer science. \nParticipants will learn how to map\, measure\, and model networks using R. Through lectures\, interactive analysis walk-throughs\, and hands-on exercises\, we will cover the fundamentals of graph theory\, key network concepts\, and the principles of visualising\, modelling\, and interpreting network structures. \nBy the end of the workshop\, participants will understand how to collect and prepare network data\, analyse patterns of connection\, and design their own network-based research project. The course provides both the conceptual foundation and the practical skills to think critically about how networks shape our social world. \n  \nTo find out more\, please follow the link below.
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/social-network-analysis-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Training
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T025724
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SUMMARY:Making sense of lived experiences through narratives
DESCRIPTION:Understanding home deathcare through narrative.\nSam Hooker\, SWDTP-funded PhD researcher in Social Policy at the University of Bath \nMy 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 used to ask questions to fill in gaps in the narratives. Then\, in the participant’s own words\, a chronological narrative of the event (core story) was formed\, which reads like a short story of their experience. This process was an emotionally taxing experience for me as a researcher\, due to the depth of immersion in the data. The core stories are included in the thesis\, allowing the data to remain situated\, capturing the complexity of a very personal and challenging experience for participants. While additional analysis is included\, the core stories allow the reader to draw conclusions from the data itself. They also provide a valuable resource for people who wish to take care of their own dead to learn from. \n  \nPutting a light in the window: using creative writing to focus analysis in relationally engaged research\nLuci Gorell Barnes\, PhD researcher in Education at UWE Bristol \nMy PhD investigates how relationally engaged arts-based research methods can support minoritised children to express\, reflect on\, and amplify their lived experiences and perceptions. I understand meaning-making as happening through the process of engagement\, and gathered data to consider the ‘double hermeneutic’ (Smith and Eatough\, 2021) of not only what the children expressed\, but how they did this through their conversations\, interactions\, and demeanours. \nThis study focuses on the children’s unique experiences and I wanted to examine what I had learned from each child\, foregrounding how they had ‘got under my skin’. Having familiarised myself with the data I then drew on less conscious or orthodox ways of knowing (Hammond and Fuller\, 2024) to write what I think of as ‘fictional portraits’ of my encounters with individual children. These were informed by the issues that child explored\, the metaphors and images they used\, and how they had interacted with me and each other. Using this process helped me get close to each child’s ‘internal narrative’ Mannay (2010\, p.10) and I came to understand each ‘portrait’ as being like a light in the window guiding me through the dark woods of data\, focusing my analysis and supporting me to write interpretive accounts that kept the relational nature of the study at their heart. McNiff (2019) suggests that fact and fiction can work together to deepen our understandings\, and by engaging with my data in this highly subjective and ‘interruptive’ way (Clark\, 2024\, p. 3) I brought a level of relational accuracy to my analysis that I might not have otherwise found. \nThis session is part of the SWDTP Data Analysis Webinar Series. Visit the following link for further information and registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/swdtp/1956811
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/making-sense-of-lived-experiences-through-narratives/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260331T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260331T140000
DTSTAMP:20260416T025724
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SUMMARY:Visual mapping for data analysis
DESCRIPTION:Visual mapping of process data\nProf. Peter Turnbull\, Professor of Management at the University of Bristol \nIn 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 research methods”\, using our visual maps for “temporal bracketing” and the application of “alternative templates” to explain (inter)action in each period and establish not simply “what’s going on here” but “what is this case of”? \nI could give a couple of examples from our research on: (i) the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the ILO’s (failed) attempt to develop a Convention (international labour standard) for decent work in global supply chains\, published in Human Relations\, and (ii) a recent paper on (successful) trade union resistance to the introduction of new technology in air traffic control\, published in New Technology\, Work and Employment. \nThe ILO study was based on a rich ethnographic dataset. My co-author worked at the ILO for 2.5 years during the deliberations on the proposed Convention and my own work with the ILO dates back to 1999. We encountered some rather very difficult challenges using these data as much of the “real work” at the ILO takes place “behind closed doors” and is therefore not part of the public record. \nThe study of trade union resistance to new technology (digital towers) was more straightforward as we have a close working relationship with Prospect (the union that represents air traffic controllers and technical staff) and Members of the Scottish Parliament who also opposed the plans were more than willing to discuss their concerns. \n  \nArt-based Mapping: an analysis of where teenagers spend their breaktime in school\nZifi Tung\, PhD researcher at the University of Bath \nFor decades\, research on play has primarily focused on young children\, emphasizing its benefits for social\, physical\, and cognitive development (Lindon\, 2007; Casey\, 2010\, Jawabri et al\, 2023).) This study shifts the focus to adolescents\, examining the nature of their playful experiences within a school setting. Data collection methods include map-making\, observations\, and focus group discussions. \nThis presentation focuses on the analysis of art-based maps created by students from year 7\,8\,9\,10 and 12. Art-based mapping techniques have been widely applied in urban planning and the study of adolescent spatial experiences (Lynch\,1960; Thomson and Philo\,2004; Travlou et al\, 2008; Webber et al\, 2014). In this study\, map-making was utilized to identify where students spend their break and lunch times\, their favourite and least favourite locations\, and restricted areas within the school. \nBy using content analysis\, findings indicate across all year groups\, most participants spend their free time with friends. During lunch\, students are primarily engaged in eating\, queuing for food\, and socializing with peers. Significantly\, only boys were shown to be playing football on the astro turf\, there were no girls reported to spend time there. These results underscore the significance of friendship and questions whether the breaktime experiences are gendered. \nThis session is part of the SWDTP Data Analysis Webinar Series. Visit the following link for further information and registration: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/swdtp/1956811
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/visual-mapping-for-data-analysis/
CATEGORIES:Higher Level Training,Training,Webinar/Seminar/Symposium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260331T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260331T160000
DTSTAMP:20260416T025724
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SUMMARY:BDFI Seminar - Twins of Justice? The Role of Data Justice and Energy Justice in Advancing U.K. Aspirations for an Energy Digital Twin With Zia Saylor
DESCRIPTION:Our funded student Zia Saylor kicks off a new series of seminars at the Bristol Digital Futures Institute. \nDigital twins have received significant hype in the energy industry for their potential to create real-time models of energy systems that can be used to balance supply and demand within the energy grid. Even as the actualisation of these models remains elusive\, the Data Sharing Infrastructure (DSI) pilot in the U.K. has taken a first step of trying to integrate consumer smart meter data with industrial datasets responsible for day-to-day operations. This step forward comes as consumers have struggled with high energy bills and raised concerns about the privacy implications of smart meters. Grounded in these lived experiences\, data justice and energy justice have both offered insight into energy digitalisation efforts. Using the frameworks of data justice and energy justice\, this paper analyses stakeholder interview transcripts and secondary documents from the DSI’s implementation body. In considering both data justice and energy justice in dialogue with one another\, this paper finds that principles of each are often pitted against the other\, even as both can align under a common framework for broader social justice. Two potential reasons for this clash are explored with their implications: in the case of an intentional dichotomy\, this indicates an attempted perseverance of structural injustices. Alternatively\, unintentional discord reflects a need to embed principles of justice into design and advancement of future twin technologies. Both instances engage with debates of social justice and the relevance of discipline-specific terms in an era of increasing interdisciplinary technological advancement. \nBio: Zia Saylor is a second-year Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Bristol School for Policy studies\, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council through the South West Doctoral Training Partnership. Her thesis focuses on experiences and dynamics of well-being both within and across households in Cape Town and how that is shaped by experiences of load-shedding. She completed her Master of Science in Public Policy at the University of Bristol as a Fulbright Scholar after receiving her B.A. with honours in Political Science and Economics from Williams College. \nThe seminar is an outcome of the PhD placement with the South West Doctoral Training Partnership\, mentored by the BDFI Lecturer\, Dr Ola Michalec. The project follows on from the ongoing sociotechnical research on the development of digital twins in the energy sector. \nHybrid event. Register to attend here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bdfi-seminar-twins-of-justice-with-zia-saylor-tickets-1985137158680?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
URL:https://www.swdtp.ac.uk/event-calendar/bdfi-seminar-twins-of-justice-the-role-of-data-justice-and-energy-justice-in-advancing-u-k-aspirations-for-an-energy-digital-twin-with-zia-saylor/
LOCATION:Bristol Digital Futures Institute\, Avon Street\, Bristol\, BS20PZ
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