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Events
The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMI) hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including seminars, conferences, workshops, and short courses.
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SPRITE+ Showcase 2024 (online)
16 September 2024
We are excited to invite you to the SPRITE+ Showcase 2024 taking place on 16th September 2024 (online). The programme is packed with a range of talks from community members. Programme outline 13:30 – Welcome by the SPRITE+ Director Prof Mark Elliot 13:40 – Talk by Dr Richard Jones, University of Edinburgh, titled "Digital Product Passports:...
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Data in the spotlight: Large scale social surveys
10:00 - 11:30 24 September 2024
Did you know that data from major social surveys such as the British Social Attitudes survey, the Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England can be accessed for research and teaching? These UK surveys provide a rich source of data from representative samples on important social and economic topics including work, family life, health,...
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Survey data drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 24 September 2024
This free online drop-in is for anyone working or thinking of working with survey data who are looking for help and advice with their project or research. It is targeted at academic and non academic researchers, as well as students, and anyone with an interest in survey data, whether absolute beginners or more seasoned users. Come along to discuss...
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Introduction to effective and practical research data management
10:00 - 11:30 30 September 2024
Research data management encompasses all stages of handling data created during a research project, either primary or secondary. It is not only about adhering to principles but also about enhancing the efficiency, impact, and integrity of research. Effective data management ensures that data are Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable...
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How to become a computational social scientist
10:00 - 11:30 1 October 2024
Scientific research and teaching are increasingly influenced by computational tools, methods and paradigms. The social sciences are no different, with many new forms of social data only available or practical through computational means (Kitchen, 2014). While social science research has always been marked by technological approaches to some degree,...
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Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?
12:00 - 2 October 2024
HSE has a proud history of undertaking occupational health research, either by funding others or using its in house capability. In this lecture Professor Andrew Curran CBE will review over 100 years of occupational health research by Government and consider if this capability should be considered as an important front-line service. In person...
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Computational social science drop-in
13:00 - 14:00 8 October 2024
Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in to get or give some help on computational social science projects. This event will take place on Zoom. There will be a data expert from the UK Data Service present to chair the session. Feel free to join for general advice on getting data, learning to code and much more. Stuck on a project? Not sure...
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Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data
10:00 - 11:30 8 October 2024
Secondary analysis offers a great option for dissertation students who are looking to gain experience working with data but who have limited abilities to go out into the field or would like to study a hard-to-reach population. This free workshop will take you through the research process of a secondary analysis project, including an overview of...
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Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing
10:00 - 11:30 10 October 2024
Data management is essential to make sure that well-organised, well-documented, high quality and shareable research data can be produced from our research projects. A key data management component is considering the ethical and legal issues of collecting, using and/or sharing data. Researchers obtaining or using data obtained from people are expected...
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Getting started with secondary analysis
10:00 - 11:30 15 October 2024
Participants will learn about the key issues to consider when using secondary data analysis as a method. This introductory workshop will briefly cover the pros and cons of reusing data and the importance of learning about the origins of your data. Quantitative and qualitative secondary analysis will be discussed with examples and issues of context,...
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