This workshop will introduce zine-making as creative and participatory research method.
Summer School 2023
7 - 8 June (in person), 12 - 13 June (online)
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How to Register
1. Book into Workshops
Take a look at the sessions below, click through to get the full details and fill in the form if you want to register
2. Register Attendance
Once you have secured a place on all your chosen sessions, fill in the Summer School Attendee form (click here)
3. Purchase Ticket
After you have secured your sessions and registered your attendance, you can now head over to the payment portal and purchase the relevant ticket (click here)
Late registration is now open until Monday 6th June
This year, the SGSSS Summer School returns as a hybrid event, with in-person sessions at the University of Edinburgh’s John McIntyre Conference Centre on 7 – 8 June, and online sessions on 12 – 13 June.
With a wide variety of interesting and useful workshops over four days across two weeks, plus opportunities to socialise, join a pub quiz and learn about social science research happening throughout Scotland, the Summer School will be an exciting way to learn advanced skills, meet other PhD students, and be inspired by ideas and stories.
The main registration period has ended. You can now sign up for sessions where there are remaining places. Please note that not all sessions will be available, accommodation is extremely limited, and dietary preferences will be requested but cannot be guaranteed.
Here’s how to sign up to be part of Summer School:
- Browse the sessions below and make a note of the ones you’d like to sign up for.
- Fill in the Late Registration Form here, selecting your chosen sessions
- When you have filled in and submitted the form, you will be sent a link where you can make payment.
Prices:
- £80 for two in-person days, including lunches and B&B accommodation if required (Please note accommodation is extremely limited);
- £40 for one in-person day including lunch;
- No charge for online sessions.
- If you are an ESRC-funded student, you can reclaim your payment via an RTSG application on SGSSS Apply. This amount will not come out of your nominal RTSG allowance.
Any queries in the meantime can be directed to team@sgsss.ac.uk
See below for all our exciting sessions, and we look forward to welcoming you in June!
Wed Jun 7
10am - 1pm
This will be an interactive workshop that will explore the benefits of using an online collaborative autoethnographic approach to reflect on personal and shared experiences.
Wed Jun 7
10am - 1pm
This session explores the cutting-edge anthropological scholarship on specifically political violence, including state terror, genocide, war, and shadows of historical violence, such as transatlantic slavery.
Wed Jun 7
10am - 1pm
Participants will understand the methodological underpinnings of sampling in quantitative research in social sciences. They will learn to select appropriate sampling procedures, evaluate and critique sampling plans.
Wed Jun 7
10am - 5pm
Multilevel modelling is an umbrella term for a wide range of statistical models appropriate for clustered data. In this short course, we will introduce the main concepts and theoretical issues around multilevel modelling.
Wed Jun 7
10am - 1pm
The training will provide students with some important points of reflection for their current practice: but aims also to help them navigate their role and responsibilities as they emerge into employment as a researcher (with a range of research employers in mind).
Wed Jun 7
2pm - 5pm
This workshop will explore the use of comparative case study design. We will discuss what case studies are and how we need to think carefully about the boundaries of any single case. We will then discuss which points of comparison are being selected in order to build theoretical extension from comparing case studies.
Wed Jun 7
2pm - 5pm
This is an informative and interactive session that considers the value of creativity in research.
Wed Jun 7
2pm - 5pm
This session offers an overview of the media, how it works and why.
Wed Jun 7
2pm - 5pm
While your PhD may be a lonely and autonomous endeavour, most academic writing is done collaboratively. The outcome of this session will be a title and a paper abstract written collaboratively during the session.
Wed Jun 7
2pm - 5pm
This session is an introduction to critical anthropological approaches to time and historicity, as well as archival methods.
Wed Jun 7
7pm - 9pm
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?
Thu Jun 8
10am - 1pm
There is an unprecedented amount of information on the internet that could usefully be harvested in order to build social science research datasets. This two-day course will showcase suitable techniques for collecting raw data from web pages, as well as from online databases.
Thu Jun 8
10am - 1pm
In this workshop we will look at how to make the best use of NVivo in your qualitative data analysis.
Thu Jun 8
10am - 1pm
What does it mean to decolonise within the academy? How can this relate to creating research for social change? This workshop explores these two critical questions.
Thu Jun 8
10am - 1pm
This workshop is designed to talk through some of the practical challenges of teaching these types of courses for the first time. The workshop will be a mix of open discussion led by the convenor of the session along with group discussions, to help understand what concerns others might have and share experiences that might help.
Thu Jun 8
10am - 1pm
This workshop will introduce students to diary methods through two key approaches. First, students will read and analyse a series of diary excerpts collected during the pandemic. Secondly, students will then analyse their own diary entries.
Thu Jun 8
10am - 1pm
This session is an opportunity to sense the way ahead using U-theory's approach to innovation development that places wellness at the centre, with Steve Earl of University of Edinburgh's Future Institute and Beth Cross, lead for the professional doctorate at UWS.
Thu Jun 8
2pm - 5pm
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.
Thu Jun 8
2pm - 5pm
In this workshop we will look at how to make the best use of NVivo in your qualitative data analysis.
Thu Jun 8
2pm - 5pm
This event is based on the idea that learning is a process between personal biographies of students, the skills abilities of methods teachers and also the wider structural processes that frame learning.
Thu Jun 8
2pm - 5pm
This session will consist of three parts: ethical challenges and moral dilemmas, practical aspects, and your own plans.
Thu Jun 8
2pm - 5pm
In this session we will introduce the methods of Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD), and provide the opportunity to apply them in a practical lab using Stata.
Mon Jun 12
10am - 1pm
This session provides an introduction to qualitative research and is geared towards individuals who have no or very little prior experience in the area.
Mon Jun 12
10am - 1pm
This online session identifies the role of publishing in your PhD and post-PhD journey, explores outlets, co-authoring options, and highlights the importance of a writing habit.
Mon Jun 12
10am - 1pm
By using a hands-on approach, this course will show how theories can be tested through different research designs with different types of data, will investigate the implications and suitability of research designs, and will reveal how these designs can be best presented to broader audiences.
Mon Jun 12
2pm - 5pm
This session will reflect on the use of focus groups in social research.
Mon Jun 12
2pm - 1pm
These sessions will provide participants with the knowledge and a range of practical tools required for conducting a systematic review.
Tue Jun 13
10am - 1pm
This session shall draw onto the real-world experience of having participated in several such multi-disciplinary and multi-institution research projects to offer insight and understanding into the realities of working in such a space, and hopes to ask what this might mean for YOUR careers as young researchers.
Tue Jun 13
2pm - 5pm
This session will introduce the photovoice methodology and present a worked example from a study around cooking on solid fuel (e.g. charcoal/ wood) and household air pollution in informal settlements ('slums') in Kenya and Malawi.
Tue Jun 13
2pm - 5pm
We will have a hands-on task to critically evaluate how 'responsible' current AI technologies are, possible ways forward in creating responsible AI systems, and the role of AI in your own research programme.
Tue Jun 13
3pm - 5pm
This session provides an overview of patient and public involvement in research, from the beginnings of bid development to reporting and dissemination.