Events

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

• Code Anxiety Club: Package it up: Installing software and libraries

  13:00 - 13:30 7 October 2025

  Feeling overwhelmed by the command line? Confused by file pathways? Want to navigate the world of coding with confidence? Join the Code Anxiety Club! Viewers can follow along as we work through common beginner topics while coding live for a quick half hour. No prior experience, installed software or setup required. Viewers can interact via the...

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• Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data

  10:00 - 11:30 8 October 2025

  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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• Using integrated non-survey data for evaluating and correcting for non-response bias in surveys

  13:00 - 14:30 14 October 2025

  Over the past decade, the landscape of survey data has substantially changed as response rates in probability-based surveys have seen a steady decline. Survey non-response can have a substantial impact on data quality, including the precision and reliability of survey estimates. The integration of non-survey data sources (i.e. administrative records,...

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• An introduction to Social Network Analysis

  10:00 - 11:30 15 October 2025

  Social Network Analysis is an exciting computational method that allows us to study social systems by visualising and interrogating the relationships among individuals or groups in the system. This technique allows us to answer questions about the ins-and-outs of social interaction and information flow, such as how ideas or behaviours spread through...

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• Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing

  10:00 - 11:30 16 October 2025

  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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• Computational social science drop-in

  13:00 - 14:00 21 October 2025

  Do you find yourself: - stuck on a project with no one to ask about it? - not sure what to learn next? - the only person in your team using computational methods? - wanting to meet other computational social scientists? - interested to learn or teach some data skills with like-minded individuals? Join our free UK Data Service data drop-in...

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• You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British Music His and Herstories

  18:00 - 19:30 6 November 2025

  Join us as we share the findings from a recent research project, “You Ought To Know – Reclaiming Black British music His and Herstories”. You will learn more about the stories of artists underrepresented in the history of the Manchester music and cultural scene, through an in-conversation with the researcher, including clips from a podcast...

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