Student-led Training

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The training event will provide hands-on experience in engaging with arts-based narrative inquiry research—a creative approach that blends storytelling and various art forms to study lived experiences. The research approach is ideal for studying complex, emotional, or marginalised perspectives. The training will also explore innovative ways to collect research data and disseminate findings using this approach.

These two half-day workshops are designed to unleash your creativity and expand your understanding of arts-informed inquiry. The event is ideal for beginners who consider arts-informed methodology or those eager to explore the power of imagination in social science research and community contexts.

This event offers a hands-on, engaging approach to unpacking Critical Realism (CR) using the analogy of a jigsaw puzzle. Attendees will break down complex philosophical ideas into manageable "pieces," helping them understand how CR can be applied in a practical and accessible way.

Are you interested in listening to children’s voices?
This workshop will offer you the opportunity to explore how to apply the four elements of Lundy’s model - space, voice, audience, and influence – to meaningfully involve children in your research.