Summer School

This workshop will help you to explore how your research can make an impact outside of academia. A pre-recorded seminar will be shared with you…

Are you a hedgehog or a fox? Does the idea of becoming a 'hedge-fox' sound at all attractive? What do you understand by these terms…

The purpose of this workshop is to encourage students to think of ethics as a continuum in their research project: it is not a set…

Research design is a core component of every good research paper, irrespective of its theoretical approach or type of empirical evidence (quantitative or qualitative) to…

A gentle and visual introduction to R. including: working within R, reading in data, scraping data from the internet and how to visualise your data.…

This session will provide health and social science doctoral students with skills to plan, develop and conduct a systematic or integrative review.

Reflexivity is a widely used - perhaps overused - term in research. Although social scientists would consider reflexivity to be a cornerstone of research, it…

In this Q&A session there will be an opportunity to address any questions you may have about getting your academic work published. We can share…

This workshop will examine how qualitative researchers USE emotion, rather than a focus on what emotion is. Qualitative data (as sometimes with quantitative) is a…

This course will introduce students to the logic and application of time-series analysis, as well as the necessary data structure for time-series analysis. Students will…

This half-day workshop provides an introduction to critical realism and realist evaluation and synthesis theory and methods. The realist approach is important because it takes…

This will be an informative and hopefully useful and interactive session looking at what funders are, how they operate and more.

How can my research be picked up by policymakers? How do governments and parliaments use research? Can I engage with policy without being 'political'? Does…

This session is for anyone who sometimes finds it difficult to keep on track with their PhD. You will have the opportunity to try out…

Are you a master of quizzes? Do you have a wealth of general knowledge? If the answer is yes, then the SGSSS Summer School Quiz…

Claire Pembleton (Edinburgh Innovations/ University of Edinburgh) and Dr Anna-Marie Linell (SGSSS) Do you want to explore working with external organisations and industry but are…

In this session we will look at the opportunities and challenges presented to academics through the use of social media in their doctoral studies and…

This training course provides doctoral students with the necessary methodological tools for structural equation modelling (SEM). The course will be at an introductory level but…