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June 2020
‘Don’t Let Your Cat Walk Across Your Laptop’: And Other Advice for An Online Viva
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…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »August 2020
Multilevel Modelling for Repeated and Correlated Data: Application Using STATA Software
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…
Find out more »September 2020
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.…
Find out more »Affective Reimagining: The University for Us
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…
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Co-designing Research: Widening Impact through Critical Materialist and Posthumanist approaches
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…
Find out more »Engaging Creatively with Research Participants Online
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…
Find out more »Optimising the Use of Mobile Phones in Qualitative Research: Practical, Theoretical and Ethical Considerations
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…
Find out more »Introduction to Institutional Ethnography and Its Application in Health-Related Research
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…
Find out more »Creative and Imaginative Practices: Exploring Reflexive Writing as a Quantitative or Mixed Researcher
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…
Find out more »October 2020
Using Gaelic in Social Sciences Research – Ag rannsachadh le Gàidhlig anns na Saidheansan Sòisealta
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…
Find out more »STATA for Business and Management Students
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…
Find out more »November 2020
Quantitative Approaches to Linguistic and Textual Analysis and Data Visualisation Using R
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…
Find out more »Conducting Research with LGBTQ+ People Using Online Resources
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…
Find out more »Conducting PGR Research in a Time of COVID-19: Conceptual and Methodological Reframings
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;…
Find out more »Hub Festivals 2020 – Economies, Mind, and Technologies
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,…
Find out more »Hub Festivals 2020 – People and Place
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…
Find out more »Hub Festivals 2020 – Society and Welfare
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…
Find out more »December 2020
Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Interviews in the Social Sciences
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…
Find out more »Show and Tell: Enhancing your Methods Section with Audio-Visual Walk-Throughs
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…
Find out more »January 2021
Online Teaching: Rethinking the Old Challenges or Creating the New Ones?
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…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »Questionnaire Design for Surveys and Interviews in the Social Sciences
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…
Find out more »February 2021
Changing Research Plans: How to Move Forward in Times of Uncertainty
It is anticipated that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impact research planning throughout the first half of 2021, and possibly beyond. How can students…
Find out more »March 2021
Participatory Approaches to Health and Social Research in the UK and Globally
This online interactive workshop will provide training in participatory research methods to doctoral students from across Scotland who are considering/already using input from key stakeholders…
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