led by Dr Roxanne Connelly, University of Edinburgh
As social scientists we aim to influence social policy, to improve people’s lives and to build better societies, but we are increasingly recognising that the way we do social science research may have unintended consequences, and a negative influence on research quality. This workshop will introduce you to the arguments for why we need to improve our research practices in quantitative social science research, and you will learn skills which will help you to promote the transparency and reproducibility of your statistical research. Take this workshop to find out why our politicians started standing strangely, if eating potatoes is bad for teenagers, and how you can open black boxes to improve the quality of your research.
Attendees should have some understanding of inferential statistics.