There are a limited number of places to each of the Digital Social Research workshops to non-funded students at SeNSS Institutions. These will be allocated on a first come basis. The training costs and travel to a maximum of £70 will be covered. Interested students should complete the online application form that can be found here.
- Web Scraping for Social Scientists - A practical introduction (18 June, University of Essex). Delivered by Dr James Allen Robertson (Department of Sociology, University of Essex).
- Telling a story through maps - a practical introduction to Geographical Information Systems (23 July, University of Essex). Delivered by Ruth Weir (Catalyst Project Research Fellow, Department of Government).
- Using mobile devices as data collection tools for social scientists (12 September, Goldsmiths). Delivered by Dr Guido Orgs (Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology) and Dimitra Kale (PhD student, Department of Psychology)
- Predictive analytics, topic modelling and text analytics using machine learning in social science - a practical introduction (11 October, University of Reading). Delivered by Dr Weizi Li (Associate Professor, Henley Business School), Professor Keiichi Nakata (Professor, Henley Business School) and Professor Anupam Nanda (Professor, Henley Business School)
- An introduction for social scientists to Bayesian data analysis and digital tools to help (6 November, Goldsmiths). Delivered by Professor Alan Pickering (Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology).