Spring into Methods: Working with Objects

1445 Argyle Street Glasgow G3 8AW United Kingdom 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Attendance: 18 / 20

This two-day training session will introduce doctoral students to the principles of object-based research as practiced across a range of fields in the Arts, Humanities,…

Student-led Symposium 2024 – Beyond the Buzzwords: Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing

Stirling Court Hotel Airthrey Road, Stirling, United Kingdom
Attendance: 73 / 73

This years’ Student-Led Symposium will take place at the University of Stirling on the 17th May. The theme is interdisciplinarity and wellbeing from the PGR perspective. It will provide an opportunity to learn about interdisciplinary research in practice and wellbeing during your degree, plus time to socialise and connect with your social science community.

Role Play Your Viva

Online via Microsoft Teams
Attendance: 50 / 50

This event aims to support people near their viva by inviting people who recently passed their viva and examiners to role play the viva experience. It is an interactive, immersive event to play three roles involved in viva: examinee, examiner and viva chair.

Summer School 2024: An Introduction to Demographic Analysis and Debate

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 37 / 40

The course considers key social debates that flow from demographic change such as overpopulation, fertility decline, rural population sustainability and population ageing. You will learn about the demographic data and methods and theory that underpin such debates with hands-on opportunities to undertake analysis using real demographic data.

Summer School 2024: After Atrocity: Justice, Memory and Representation

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 27 / 30

This workshop looks at the aftermath of a mass atrocity, a temporal moment when the killings are over and questions of justice and remembrance come to the fore. Through comparative studies of historical and contemporary mass atrocities, the workshop will create opportunities to interrogate notions of transitional justice and impunity.

Summer School 2024: Queer Data Production

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 9 / 10

This workshop focuses on the production of data via surveys, helping participants design survey questions in an inclusive, transparent and reflexive manner.

Summer School 2024: Hands-On Qualitative Methods

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 50 / 50

This training session, using a variety of data sources including interviews with Donald Trump, a US defender of the political right, and a speech from Jeremy Hunt, explores different ways of coding qualitative data.

Summer School 2024: Archive, Coloniality, and Negative Methodologies

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

This workshop will consider how museums, galleries, and universities curate and exhibit their colonial acquisitions and ethnological collections. We will also discuss alternative archives that use 3D imaging, storyworlding, and architectural technologies to rethink conventional archives and bring to the surface marginalised and concealed histories.

Summer School 2024: Natural Experiments in the Social Sciences

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 20 / 40

The workshop will teach the art of spotting a natural experiment and undertaking robust analysis to provide evidence for causal associations between social variables. You'll be introduced to the statistical models that are used to analyse natural experiments and have hands on opportunity to fit a difference in difference model and an interrupted time series model.

Summer School 2024: Data Visualisation Using R, for Researchers Who Don’t Use R

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

We will provide a beginner’s introduction to quantitative data visualisation using the statistical programming language R. We expect no prior knowledge of using R, this is meant for complete beginners, but more experienced users are welcome.

Summer School 2024: Web-scraping for Social Scientists

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 32 / 40

There is an unprecedented amount of information on the internet that could usefully be harvested in order to build social science research datasets. This half-day course will showcase suitable techniques for web scraping.

Summer School 2024: Comparative Case Studies as a Research Design

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

This workshop is aimed at people who are considering and/or actively designing a project that compares case studies. It is cross-disciplinary across the social sciences.

Summer School 2024: Making a game with your research: Using Twine to share your findings

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 44 / 50

A good way to share your research (or teach it!) is to make an interactive game based around them. This session uses 'Twine', a free tool for telling interactive, non-linear stories and publishing them on the web, to both demonstrate how to make such a story, as well as teaching participants the basics of the tool so that they can make their own.

Summer School 2024: Quiz Night

Dundee University Students' Union Airlie Place, Dundee

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 Summer School Quiz Night?

Summer School 2024: Latent Class Analysis

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 19 / 20

Many theoretical concepts in the social sciences cannot be easily observed directly. This workshop will introduce latent class analysis, and you will learn how to undertake and interpret analyses using this method.

Summer School 2024: Research with Young People and ‘Vulnerable’ Groups

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 42 / 42

This session will explore the ethical and methodological considerations for research with young people, especially those who might be considered ‘vulnerable’. Workshop attendees will have the opportunity to reflect on how these topics might apply to their own research.

Summer School 2024: The Hidden Curriculum & Development Needs Analysis: Connecting the Dots

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 23 / 30

This workshop aims to highlight how doctoral scholars can harness the power of the Hidden Curriculum as they plan their personal journeys of growth & development not only for a successful, meaningful & timely PhD completion, but also in preparing for a post-PhD career.

Summer School 2024: Emotion, Research & the Neoliberal University

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 28 / 30

Drawing on similar events run in the past and published work, I will consider strategies to safeguard yourself as a key component of researching ethically. We will consider and discuss what a sustainable workload looks like? and just as important, how can we achieve this in institutions that seem to be determined to push us to burnout.

Summer School 2024: Challenge Pathway Cohort Building

Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee Old Hawkhill, Dundee
Attendance: 11 / 60

This session will include a range of activities to support networking within your challenge pathway. There will also be opportunities to make connections across PhD projects in terms of research questions, methods, literature, approaches to making broader impact and more!