Student-led Training

This event is a 2.5-hour training session on some of the key benefits and challenging issues when implementing a mixed-methods design in social research.

Are you going to collect your own data using in-depth interviews, surveys, and/or focus group discussion? Wondering how to plan and monitor your data collection progress? This is a 2-hour webinar event on “Managing data collection: Preparation and monitoring”. The webinar will combine presentation, small-group discussion, and whole-class reflection. This workshop focuses on how to plan, organise, manage, and monitor data collection.

The event explores the benefits of bringing mindfulness to postgraduate research, for the benefit of the researcher and the research project. Through group discussions, writing exercises, and mindfulness practices, the attendees will consider the “emotional labour” of research, such as writer’s block, procrastination, perfectionism, and imposter syndrome.

This training focuses on designing and conducting efficient interviews. Attendees are expected to: 1) understand the nature of conducting various interviews; 2) know how to design interviews; 3) share and discuss their interview plans; 3) understand the key factors of engaging various interviewees; and 4) conduct mock interviews in different circumstances.

Stata has varied and powerful data visualisation capabilities which can be hard to master. Participants will receive training on how to create data visualisations that aid in every stage of the research process, analyse the purpose of visualisation critically, and employ a streamlined and logical workflow using the Stata software.

This interactive workshop helps you 1) learn NVivo on your own or with your peers, 2) use the software for qualitative as well as mixed methods research, 3) employ it to save time and effort in your everyday tasks of reading and research-based writing.

This event suits students interested in collecting cross-country data online and considering employing an online co-creation workshop. The event is entirely virtual and will provide participants with the foundational knowledge necessary for designing and conducting co-creation workshops using Miro.

Using Jupyter Notebook, this training event will provide quantitative researchers with the tools necessary to streamline and improve current research workflow by integrating comments, data analysis, visualization, and write-up within one system all within an open-science environment.

This training will provide an advanced training and workshop around Critical Discourse Analysis and its applications in PhD research. Attendees will learn about varied CDA approaches, practice analysis with these methods, and consider the theoretical and logistical practicalities of applying them to their own research projects.

This training will provide an advanced training and workshop around Critical Discourse Analysis and its applications in PhD research. Attendees will learn about varied CDA approaches, practice analysis with these methods, and consider the theoretical and logistical practicalities of applying them to their own research projects.

This workshop will offer background information on e-cigarette use among young people and ask participants to engage in discussions relating to working with young people using innovative qualitative approaches (e.g., photo-elicitation).

This online workshop aims to provide the principles behind fundamental concepts of programme monitoring and evaluation.

Come along to this interactive day-long introduction to agent-based modelling and system dynamics modelling, focusing on their applications in social science and public health.

This event aims to support people near their viva by inviting people who recently passed their viva and examiners to role play the viva experience. It is an interactive, immersive event to play three roles involved in viva: examinee, examiner and viva chair.

Let’s have a play date! Stella and Arushi invite you to play with LEGO® and walk around the University to reflect on our PhD journeys.

This hands-on learning workshop will offer the participants the opportunity to explore positionality and reflexivity in research along with two creative methods, namely: LEGO® building and map-making.

Online workshop examining the various positions of social capital in research. The purpose of this workshop is to develop and deepen understanding of the interdisciplinary influences of social capital and create a ‘Special Interest Group’ to support further discussion and collaboration.

This online workshop will equip researchers who are planning to use STATA to conduct quantitative analysis with the knowledge and tools required to effectively prepare and document their data.

**This event will take place over two afternoons, from 1pm-4.30pm on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th November** led by Quentin Loisel, PhD student at Glasgow…

This half day workshop is for any students interested in creative methods and co-creation in their PhD research design. The first session will focus on defining co-creation and discussing common questions around methodology, rigour, ethics and analysis. The second session will involve a mini workshop to build attendee confidence in gathering and reflecting on co-created or creative data.

This event will train users in the Shiny package using R to create their own open-source survey and questionnaire instruments for their own research needs and interests. Unlike alternative survey creation tools, Shiny allows the researcher complete fluid control over their survey creation. This training is suitable for both quant and qual researchers alike that wish to provide greater flexibility and control over their survey/questionnaires.

At this training, you will experiment with how to tell stories using creative techniques and learn about why storytelling is important for research. Based on this experience, you will decide how to apply storytelling to your research. This training is for current and future qualitative and quantitative researchers.

Have you thought about the idea of conducting a co-creation workshop with remote participants from around the world, using tools like Miro to facilitate the process? This workshop aims to sharing the experience of organising and running an online co-creation workshop by Miro from the very beginning.

This face-to-face workshop is about ethnography and the wonders, dramas, and challenges of doing an ethnographic PhD project. Our hope is that you will be able to experience some of this in the workshop and leave feeling better equipped to embark on your own ethnographic project.

An introduction focused on arts-based data creation using an adapted photovoice methodology. This session will provide an overview of photovoice and discuss how other arts-based methods can be incorporated. A hands on element will provide attendees with the opportunity to engage with the co-analysis process using the systematic visuo-textual analysis framework.