What comes next? Life after the PhD
Attendance: 41 / 40
This session will give researchers a chance to hear from a PhD alumni who is now working in the Scottish Human Rights Commission. Dr Alison…
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‘Don’t Let Your Cat Walk Across Your Laptop’: And Other Advice for An Online Viva
Attendance: 31 / 30
This session will be a live interview and Q&A with Margaret Laurie, who recently completed her online viva, and her examiner Dr Katie Cebula. Find…
Learning Lunch: Postdoctoral Fellowships
Attendance: 41 / 40
This session will be of interest to any doctoral researchers considering applying for Postdoctoral Fellowships. It will offer an informal introduction to different kinds of…
Multilevel Modelling for Repeated and Correlated Data: Application Using STATA Software
OnlineAttendance: 21 / 25
Multilevel models are composed of fixed and random effects components and are used extensively in social sciences to analyse either hierarchical structured data that involve…
Project Planning in Uncertain Times
Attendance: 85 / ∞
Aimed at those entering 2nd and 3rd year, this session will provide a space to think through the challenges of project planning in uncertain times.…
Affective Reimagining: The University for Us
OnlineAttendance: 17 / 20
Feeling emotional? Us too. This two-day workshop wants to harness the power of emotions to rethink the University to work for us, and put people…
Co-designing Research: Widening Impact through Critical Materialist and Posthumanist approaches
OnlineAttendance: 25 / 25
The training programme will combine a mix of synchronous and asynchronous activities with inputs from academics across social sciences and arts and humanities active in…
Engaging Creatively with Research Participants Online
OnlineAttendance: 30 / 30
When fieldwork is unexpectedly cancelled or postponed, how can researchers build trust and engage with research participants in a positive, meaningful, and ethical manner? The…
Optimising the Use of Mobile Phones in Qualitative Research: Practical, Theoretical and Ethical Considerations
OnlineAttendance: 35 / 35
The proliferation of smartphone technologies has considerably expanded social scientists’ methodological repertoire. Although widely recognised as flexible and powerful research tools, smartphone technologies in social…
Introduction to Institutional Ethnography and Its Application in Health-Related Research
OnlineAttendance: 15 / 15
IE approach is considered as an alternative sociology, a sociology from the standpoint of participants. The workshop will provide an overview of institutional ethnography, an…
Creative and Imaginative Practices: Exploring Reflexive Writing as a Quantitative or Mixed Researcher
OnlineAttendance: 54 / 60
Join Michelle Jamieson and Tawnya Renelle for an exciting session on integrating creativity into your research. This workshop will cover some theory of reflexivity, the…
Using Gaelic in Social Sciences Research – Ag rannsachadh le Gàidhlig anns na Saidheansan Sòisealta
Online via ZoomAttendance: 11 / 14
This interactive online workshop on the 22nd of October is for PhD researchers across Scotland interested in using Scottish Gaelic in social sciences research. We will…
STATA for Business and Management Students
Online via ZoomAttendance: 15 / 15
This training event aims to provide an introduction to STATA for Business and Management students. The course assumes no prior knowledge of STATA and covers…
Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic and Textual Analysis and Data Visualisation Using R
Online via ZoomAttendance: 22 / 20
Quantitative data are central to social and political research. As online forums proliferate, the amount of sources of quantitative data available has exploded over the…
Conducting Research with LGBTQ+ People Using Online Resources
Online via ZoomAttendance: 24 / 30
This student-led training will provide advanced methods training in engaging with marginalized groups and understanding secondary data on said groups with a specific focus on…
Conducting PGR Research in a Time of COVID-19: Conceptual and Methodological Reframings
OnlineAttendance: 40 / 40
Under the remit of ‘Reframing Research’, peer-to-peer training sessions will focus on a variety of topics including Archival Research; Fieldwork; Case studies; Methods of Analysis;…
Hub Festivals 2020 – Economies, Mind, and Technologies
Attendance: 17 / 20
Register here for the Economies, Mind, and Technologies Hub. This Hub includes the following Pathways: Accounting, Finance, Business and Management (AFBM) Economics Linguistics Psychology Science,…
Hub Festivals 2020 – People and Place
Attendance: 19 / 20
Register here for the People and Place Hub. This Hub includes the following Pathways: Economic and Social History Human Geography, Environment and Urban Planning Language-based…
Hub Festivals 2020 – Society and Welfare
Attendance: 18 / 20
Register here for the Society and Welfare Hub. This Hub includes the following Pathways: Accounting, Finance, Business and Management (AFBM) Economics Linguistics Psychology Science, Technology…
Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Interviews in the Social Sciences
OnlineAttendance: 30 / 30
This training course delivered by Dr Sergiu Gherghina (Department of Politics, University of Glasgow) will use a hands-on approach to designing and implementing questionnaires for…
Show and Tell: Enhancing your Methods Section with Audio-Visual Walk-Throughs
OnlineAttendance: 12 / 12
In social science, quantitative and qualitative research uses complex instrumental, digital and humanistic methods to collect, process and analyse data. We describe such methods in…
Science Historiography Clinic
OnlineAttendance: 11 / 16
The Science Historiography Clinic is a weekly online discussion-based workshop running during the semester 2 instructional period. Participants will develop skills in rapidly and efficiently…
Online Teaching: Rethinking the Old Challenges or Creating the New Ones?
Online via ZoomAttendance: 29 / 30
The introduction of COVID-19 restrictions in March has resulted in a pivot from in person, face-to-face teaching, to learning and teaching happening online. This change…
PHOTO and OBJECT Elicitation Methods
Online via ZoomAttendance: 30 / 30
Visual methods have long been mobilised in the social sciences, but they are still under-represented compared to more traditional methods. This is regrettable as visual-elicitation…
Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Interviews in the Social Sciences
OnlineAttendance: 30 / 30
This training course delivered by Dr Sergiu Gherghina (Department of Politics, University of Glasgow) will use a hands-on approach to designing and implementing questionnaires for…