Scottish Programme of Advanced Training for Social Anthropology PhD Students, STAR 1 Pre-Fieldwork training

The Burn, Angus Glenesk, Brechin, Scotland, United Kingdom
Attendance: 21 / 30

Workshops and talks cover anthropological methods and are designed and delivered both by staff and students in collaboration. The outcomes of the programme cannot all be prescribed in advance. However, one of the key aims and outcomes is to facilitate networking and to build a sense of support and cohesion between and amongst the full range of Scottish Social Anthropology students.

Doctoral-Led Symposium 2025

Stirling Court Hotel Airthrey Road, Stirling, United Kingdom
Attendance: 51 / 80

This will be a day-long event, taking place at the University of Stirling’s Stirling Court Hotel on Friday the 2nd May.  It will take place in person, and we will…

Spring into methods: Walking with PAR: A/r/tography as a critical, creative approach to participatory action research

50 George Square (Room G.02) 50 George Square, Edinburgh
Attendance: 22 / 0

This one-day workshop invites participants to engage creatively and critically with Participatory Action Research (PAR) through the arts education practice of A/r/tography. The workshop affords participants an opportunity to practically apply a creative-relational research method that embodies not only what can be reported but what is ‘felt’ at their sites of research.

Handling Missing Data: A Practical Introduction to Techniques and Methods

Room 1.40, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Attendance: 7 / 54

This training event focuses on a practical introduction to the variety of missing data methods in use across social scientific research. This event will navigate methodological best practices to implement into your own research – learning the pitfalls and ‘gold standard’ methods to handle missing data.

Researching intersectionality in the language (teacher) education curriculum: Advancing the conversation

Room 4.20, Charteris Land Building Holyrood Campus, Moray House School of Education and Sport, Edinburgh
Attendance: 20 / 20

This training seeks to offer a platform for doctoral researchers to lead a conversation on intersectionality in the specific area of language (teacher) education. It will also allow them to broaden their understanding and use of intra-/inter-disciplinarity and develop a toolbox of appropriate research methods in language education-oriented research.

Using Digital Ethnography and Media Content Analysis to Conduct Ethical Research with Marginalised Subjects

Senate Room, New College Mound Place, Edinburgh

Social scientists researching marginalised communities face particular methodological and ethical considerations. Rather than seeing these considerations as obstacles to be overcome, this training will focus on how researchers can use digital ethnography and media content analysis to respect the needs of their participants, all without compromising the quality of data collected.

Scottish Doctoral Colloquium in Accounting and Finance 2025

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee

The Scottish Doctoral Colloquium (ScotDoc) in Accounting and Finance is an annual event that provides a platform for PhD students across Scotland to present their research, receive feedback, and network with academics. The event includes plenary sessions with distinguished speakers and parallel research presentation sessions.

Participatory and Creative Methodologies: Sense-making across generations in troubled times

University of Stirling

Wondering how other PhD researchers are working creatively across generations in the field? This peer-to-peer training will explore participatory and creative methodologies in interdisciplinary research, with a focus on co-analysis with children, young people and doctoral researchers. Attendees will hear from case studies applied to issues of sustainability and then will be invited to reflect on methodological opportunities in their own contexts.

Building Your Own Computational Workflow – A Course for Social Scientists

Clarice Pears Building 90 Byres Road, Glasgow

Join this half day training to explore resources to support best practice in making your research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reproducible (FAIR). This software carpentry course offers guided and hands-on learning of the building blocks to design your own scalable and reproducible scientific workflow using Nextflow.

A Practical Overview of Systematic Reviews for the Social Sciences

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee

There are a lot of ways to conduct a systematic review. This full day workshop will provide participants with the information to engage with the varied research methods involved in conducting a systematic review, as well as to get hands on experience with every step of the process from designing a search prompt to synthesising the findings.