Summer School 2025: Multilevel models for applied social research

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 30 / 30

In this session we introduce and reflect upon the role of multilevel models in applied social research, and provide practical training materials which demonstrate ways of running multilevel models in survey data analysis scenarios.

Summer School 2025: Introduction to Participatory Research Methods

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 20 / 20

This workshop offers a creative and hands-on guide to participatory research approaches and methods. By sharing our own research experiences, we will reflect on the different forms that participatory research can take.

Summer School 2025: Text Analysis

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 40 / 40

In this one-day course you will learn how to apply computational methods for the processing and analysis of textual data. Using Python and R, you will develop skills in preparing textual data for computational analysis; and core methods of text data analysis (e.g., sentiment analysis, topic modelling).

Summer School 2025: Ethnography: An introductory workshop

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 32 / 30

Led by Dr Bridget Bradley, University of St Andrews In this workshop you will gain a detailed introduction to ethnography from a trained anthropologist who…

Summer School 2025: Getting Critical About Discourse Analysis

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 30 / 30

This session will map the socio-historical context of DA, from its roots in semiology and through the ethnomethodology that characterized much 1970s social research. Theory will be explored, particularly contributions from Foucault around power.

Summer School 2025: Meet the Alpacas

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 64 / 200

Come along to this drop-in session to meet Lynne and her herd of alpacas - feed them snacks, take them for a walk around the green, and learn more about their lives on a smallholding in the Scottish Borders.

Summer School 2025: An Introduction to Multi-Species Social Research

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 22 / 22

In this short session, we will critically explore how incorporating ‘more-than-human’ viewpoints and experiences into social research can yield richer accounts of social life and open up new possibilities for addressing contemporary social challenges.

Summer School 2025: Itu Ninu – An Indigenous Sci Fi Film

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 38 / 60

Directed by Dr Itandehui Jansen, Screen Academy Scotland at Edinburgh Napier University We are excited to host a special screening of Itu Ninu (2023), an…

Summer School 2025: My PhD and me: A mindfulness-based approach to engaging with doctoral research

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 20 / 20

This session offers a space to reflect on the doctoral journey and explore the PhD as an emotional and embodied process, unique and personal to each student. Through gentle movements, mindfulness practices and reflection exercises, the attendees will be invited to consider their academic journey beyond notions of output, career trajectory and destination.

Summer School 2025: Quiz Night

Queen Margaret University Queen Margaret University Way, Musselburgh
Attendance: 93 / 100

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…