Summer School

This workshop will introduce zine-making as creative and participatory research method.

This session explores the cutting-edge anthropological scholarship on specifically political violence, including state terror, genocide, war, and shadows of historical violence, such as transatlantic slavery.

The training will provide students with some important points of reflection for their current practice: but aims also to help them navigate their role and responsibilities as they emerge into employment as a researcher (with a range of research employers in mind).

Participants will understand the methodological underpinnings of sampling in quantitative research in social sciences. They will learn to select appropriate sampling procedures, evaluate and critique sampling plans.

Multilevel modelling is an umbrella term for a wide range of statistical models appropriate for clustered data. In this short course, we will introduce the main concepts and theoretical issues around multilevel modelling.

This will be an interactive workshop that will explore the benefits of using an online collaborative autoethnographic approach to reflect on personal and shared experiences.

This is an informative and interactive session that considers the value of creativity in research.

This session is an introduction to critical anthropological approaches to time and historicity, as well as archival methods.

While your PhD may be a lonely and autonomous endeavour, most academic writing is done collaboratively. The outcome of this session will be a title and a paper abstract written collaboratively during the session.

This session offers an overview of the media, how it works and why.

This workshop will explore the use of comparative case study design. We will discuss what case studies are and how we need to think carefully about the boundaries of any single case. We will then discuss which points of comparison are being selected in order to build theoretical extension from comparing case studies.

After an exciting day of learning new things and meeting your fellow PhD students, why not come and win some prizes at our legendary SGSSS Summer School Quiz Night?

What does it mean to decolonise within the academy? How can this relate to creating research for social change? This workshop explores these two critical questions.

This workshop is designed to talk through some of the practical challenges of teaching these types of courses for the first time. The workshop will be a mix of open discussion led by the convenor of the session along with group discussions, to help understand what concerns others might have and share experiences that might help.

This session is an opportunity to sense the way ahead using U-theory's approach to innovation development that places wellness at the centre, with Steve Earl of University of Edinburgh's Future Institute and Beth Cross, lead for the professional doctorate at UWS.

In this workshop we will look at how to make the best use of NVivo in your qualitative data analysis.

This workshop will introduce students to diary methods through two key approaches. First, students will read and analyse a series of diary excerpts collected during the pandemic. Secondly, students will then analyse their own diary entries.

There is an unprecedented amount of information on the internet that could usefully be harvested in order to build social science research datasets.
This two-day course will showcase suitable techniques for collecting raw data from web pages, as well as from online databases.

This event is based on the idea that learning is a process between personal biographies of students, the skills abilities of methods teachers and also the wider structural processes that frame learning.

In this session we will introduce the methods of Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), and provide the opportunity to apply them in a practical lab using Stata.

We will provide a beginner’s introduction to quantitative data visualisation using the statistical programming language R. We expect no prior knowledge of using R, this is meant for complete beginners, but more experienced users are welcome.

This session will consist of three parts: ethical challenges and moral dilemmas, practical aspects, and your own plans.

In this workshop we will look at how to make the best use of NVivo in your qualitative data analysis.

This online session identifies the role of publishing in your PhD and post-PhD journey, explores outlets, co-authoring options, and highlights the importance of a writing habit.

This session provides an introduction to qualitative research and is geared towards individuals who have no or very little prior experience in the area.

This session will reflect on the use of focus groups in social research.

This session shall draw onto the real-world experience of having participated in several such multi-disciplinary and multi-institution research projects to offer insight and understanding into the realities of working in such a space, and hopes to ask what this might mean for YOUR careers as young researchers.

We will have a hands-on task to critically evaluate how 'responsible' current AI technologies are, possible ways forward in creating responsible AI systems, and the role of AI in your own research programme.

This session will introduce the photovoice methodology and present a worked example from a study around cooking on solid fuel (e.g. charcoal/ wood) and household air pollution in informal settlements ('slums') in Kenya and Malawi.

This session provides an overview of patient and public involvement in research, from the beginnings of bid development to reporting and dissemination.