Student-led Training

Building rapport is essential to ethical and methodologically-sound research. This workshop will explore practical techniques for effective verbal and non-verbal communication with research participants. Whether conducting research online or in-person, participants will come away with evidence-based strategies for building trust and setting boundaries to safeguard their own well being and that of participants.

Corpus analytical software are versatile tools that provide users with an easy-to-use means for analysing qualitative and quantitative data. In this two-part session, first, an overview of Corpus Linguistics and its applications in Social Sciences will be presented. Then, an opportunity to gain practical experience using corpus tools is provided.

This training will introduce time series analysis for associative studies using distributed lag non-linear models and how to conduct it in R/RStudio. This method provides an elegant framework to study the 3-dimensional relationships between the predictor, its lags and their effects on the outcome.