Advanced data visualisation using Stata: from exploration to presentation

University of Stirling and Online Stirling
Attendance: 22 / 45

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.

Hands-on training to use NVivo for efficient ‘reading’ & data analysis

Online
Attendance: 58 / 60

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.

Designing and running online co-creation workshops for data collection

Online
Attendance: 12 / 20

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.

Jupyter Notebook: Improving Workflow for Social Science Research

Chrystal Macmillan Building 15a George Square, Edinburgh
Attendance: 13 / 25

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.

Adapting Critical Discourse Analysis Approaches for Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Projects

Online via Zoom
Attendance: 28 / 50

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.

Practicum – Adapting Critical Discourse Analysis Approaches for Interdisciplinary Doctoral Research Projects

Online via Zoom
Attendance: 16 / 24

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.

Role Play Your Viva

Online via Microsoft Teams
Attendance: 50 / 50

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.

Creative Methods in Research: A Hands-on Learning Experience

Learning and Teaching Centre, Strathclyde University Level 6, 49 Richmond Street, Glasgow
Attendance: 30 / 30

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.

Utilising Social Capital Within and Through Research

Online via Collaborate
Attendance: 34 / 100

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.

Data preparation using STATA: Tips and practices

Online
Attendance: 13 / 20

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.

Co-creation, Creative Methods and the PhD

Room CEE13, Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Executive Education, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Attendance: 25 / 25

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.

Survey and Questionnaire Construction: the Shiny Package in R

Room 1.40, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Attendance: 25 / 36

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.

Transformative Storytelling for Research

Online via Zoom
Attendance: 30 / 30

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.

Unlocking Success with Miro: How to Design and Execute Online Co-Creation Workshops

Online via Teams
Attendance: 20 / 50

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.

Embracing the mess with the messiness: Doing ethnographic research as a PGR student

Campus Central Room CC304 The Atrium, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling
Attendance: 23 / 31

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.

Multimodal Photovoice and Co-Analysis with Young People

Room D145, University of the West of Scotland High Street, Paisley
Attendance: 31 / 30

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.

Doctoral-Led Symposium 2025

Stirling Court Hotel Airthrey Road, Stirling, United Kingdom
Attendance: 66 / 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…

Handling Missing Data: A Practical Introduction to Techniques and Methods

Room 1.40, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh
Attendance: 14 / 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.

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

Senate Room, New College Mound Place, Edinburgh
Attendance: 18 / 18

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.

Creative and Embodied Approaches to Trauma-Informed Research-ing: How to Bring the Body In?

Online via Teams
Attendance: 30 / 30

A two-half-day training to explore creative and embodied approaches to trauma-informed research. You will learn to approach research from an embodied perspective, considering the role of the body in engaging with data, materials, and readings within a post-qualitative and post-humanist theoretical framework.

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

University of Stirling
Attendance: 15 / 15

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.