This is a reflective session on navigating ethics, and dealing with trauma, vulnerability and emotions in research.

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.

You will have the chance to hear about the Researcher Access Service, a new service which was launched in April 2024 and provides a streamlined approvals process for accessing certain datasets, and how RDS are making synthetic datasets available for research.

As you get started on your PhD journey, this session will introduce you to some strategies and techniques for managing your research project, which will ultimately support your wellbeing.

We will use the example of the work of the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit to reflect on the ways in which we can use social science research to shape Scottish (and beyond) society for the common good.

Join the SGSSS Research Impact Team and the Scottish Government to find out more about the opportunities of the SGSSS internship scheme. This session will draw on the real world experiences of hosts and former interns to share the experience of completing an internship as a PhD student.

In this session we will explore how to ask questions in a way that enable the people we are listening to. We will focus on the dangers of asking questions in a way that is laden with values or where the researcher runs the risk of presuming that they already know the answers.

This workshop will teach you how natural experiments can be used in the social sciences as a tool to provide stronger evidence for causal connections between variables than in observational studies.

This session will introduce and consider the use of focus groups and reading groups as a distinctive method of qualitative research.

In this session, we will introduce the core concepts and metrics of Social Network Analysis, including centrality measures, network level metrics (i.e. density, centralisation), and sub-group metrics.

This session provides a practical guide for PhD researchers planning overseas fieldwork, focusing on preparation, logistics, and ethical responsibilities.

In this workshop, students will learn to navigate the submission and review stage of the academic publication process, including how to interact with journal editors and reviewers.

The course draws on recent work around research integrity, notably from the Economic and Social Research Council but also from experts working in the forefront of the field. As well as explaining what we mean by research integrity, we will explore why it is important by thinking about the consequences where integrity standards are not met.

Keynote delivered by Dr Karen Gregory, Digital sociologist and ethnographer, The University of Edinburgh This talk will explore three research projects whose methodological approaches place…