Events

The Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research (CMI) hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including seminars, conferences, workshops, and short courses.

• How to become a computational social scientist

  10:00 - 11:00 14 September 2026

  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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• Exploring census microdata

  10:00 - 11:30 22 September 2026

  Census microdata provides detailed anonymised information about individuals and households, allowing researchers to explore relationships between population characteristics in ways that are not possible using standard aggregate census tables. This free workshop will introduce census microdata available through the UK Data Service and demonstrate...

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• Introduction to synthetic data

  14:00 - 15:00 30 September 2026

  This free online workshop about synthetic data has three parts: A presentation to introduce the fundamentals of synthetic data, including what synthetic data is and is not, what are the most important concepts related to synthetic data, ways synthetic data can be used and ways synthetic data can be generated. A live coding demonstration in Jupyter...

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• Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026

  12:00 - 17:00 1 October 2026

  The Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 will bring together leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry to examine the persistent inequality in women’s health outcomes as one of the defining healthcare and social justice challenges of our time, and the role of digital technology in tackling it. The...

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• Using QGIS to map 2021/22 census data from the UK Data Service

  10:00 - 12:30 21 October 2026

  A table of numbers is not always the best way to present census data, often we want to visualise the information as a map to help people see patterns quickly. This free online workshop will focus on the use of the free and open-source cross-platform QGIS GIS application to create maps and other geographical visualisations from 2021/22 census data...

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