Summer School 2024: Thinking Through Decolonial Methodologies

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 25 / 25

The call for decolonisation within the academy has been intensifying in recent years. What does this mean for our research methodologies? This workshop opens a dialogue on what decolonising research may mean.

Summer School 2024: Analysing Complex Surveys

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 13 / 30

This workshop will explain why complex samples are used, the implications of complex samples for statistical data analysis, and approaches to analysing complex samples data. Whilst this workshop is primarily focussed on the analysis of social survey data resources, the principles can be more widely applied to other forms of made and found data.

Summer School 2024: An Introduction to Qualitative Research

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 27 / 60

This session is intended to be an introductory guide for students who have never engaged in qualitative research before, or have a small amount of qualitative experience that they would like to build on. No prior learning is required.

Summer School 2024: Queer Data Production (online session)

Online
Attendance: 15 / 15

This workshop guides participants through the current UK data context, the risks and benefits data representation has for LGBTI+ people and show how reflexivity, transparency and consent can be centred in our survey design processes.

Summer School 2024: Using Focus and Reading Groups in Social Research

Online
Attendance: 132 / 200

This session is intended for anyone who might be considering the use of focus groups as part of their research project. It will introduce and consider the use of focus group and reading group as a distinctive method of qualitative research.

Summer School 2024: Responsible AI

Online
Attendance: 51 / 50

In this session, you will learn what AI technologies are, how they work, and how they are developed. We will then cover current research strands in responsible AI to make AI system fair, accountable, and transparent.

Spring into Methods: Green Freeport Hackathon Challenge

University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness 1, Inverness Campus Inverness, Highlands IV2 5NA United Kingdom University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness 1, Inverness Campus Inverness, Highlands, Inverness, United Kingdom
Attendance: 8 / 30

led by the University of the Highlands and Islands Aim: to develop co-created community projects securing local socio-economic benefits from major infrastructure development, specifically, the…

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.

Autumn Internships Q&A

Attendance: 32 / ∞

This virtual Question & Answer session will be hosted by the SGSSS Research Impact and Partnerships Team. The event will start with an overview of…

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.

Scottish Government Evidence in Policy Training

Practice Suite 1.12. 1st Floor, Chrystal MacMillan Building, 15A George Square, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9LD 15A George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Attendance: 20 / 20

Join social researchers from the Scottish Government’s Office of the Chief Researcher (OCR) to learn more about applied social research outside of academia. This three-hour…

Regime Switching Models: Theory and Applications

Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Attendance: 12 / 20

Regime switching is widely prevalent in economic and social data and knowing how to interpret and analyse the phenomena is at the heart of economic or public policy debates and design. This course offers advanced PhDs analytical tools to study these processes and analyse real world data.