Past events
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Introduction to copyright: Copyright and secondary data use
09:00 - 10:30 29 April 2025
This second session on copyright focuses on copyright considerations in the context of secondary data use. The first session, Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing, provides an overview on copyright considerations in both publishing and teaching. This free 90-minute online workshop will...
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Introduction to copyright: Copyright and publishing
12:00 - 13:30 24 April 2025
This workshop is the first of two on ‘Introduction to copyright’. The first session focuses on copyright considerations in the context of publishing while the second session focuses on copyright issues in secondary data use. Copyright is an area of scholarly communications that affects every researcher...
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How to become a computational social scientist
09:00 - 10:30 16 April 2025
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...
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Introduction to effective and practical research data management
09:00 - 10:30 8 April 2025
This introductory workshop offers a practical guide to managing research data effectively across its lifecycle. Designed to help participants understand the basics of managing research data effectively and responsibly the workshop covers the key data principles FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable,...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Jackie Wong Siaw Tze
13:00 - 14:30 8 April 2025
Fully Bayesian Estimation of Temporal Decay in Ordinal Relational Event Models Relational event models (REMs) can infer the generative properties of longitudinally observed social networks with instantaneous edges. They assume conditional independence of edges given sufficient network statistics formed...
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Pankhurst Health Technology Translation Toolkit Introductory Webinar
09:00 - 10:00 1 April 2025
Webinar Announcement: Introducing the Pankhurst Health Technology Translation Toolkit We are excited to announce a webinar to introduce the recently launched Pankhurst Health Technology Translation Toolkit (see flyer). Date: 1st April 2025 Time: 10-11am Platform: Zoom [https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pankhurst-health-technology-translation-toolkit-webinar-tickets-1256434020979?aff=oddtdtcreator/...
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Introduction to the UK Data Service
10:00 - 11:30 27 March 2025
The UK Data Service holds the UK’s largest collection of research data. This introductory workshop is for anyone with an interest in social research who wants to hear about the vast array of resources we offer. Participants will learn about the different types of quantitative and qualitative data...
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Training Course on Advanced Scripting and Batching of Tomographic Datasets
24 - 25 March 2025
Although X-ray tomography is an attractive characterisation technique in materials science, it generates a huge amount of data at a fast rate and it can be extremely time consuming to process the data manually. A great benefit to creating scripts and plugins in Avizo is the ability to reuse a workflow...
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Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data
10:00 - 11:30 19 March 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...
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Crime Surveys User Conference 2025
09:30 - 16:30 5 March 2025
Are you interested in research on crime? Do you want to know the latest developments in crime data from UK social surveys? This free conference, organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics and Home Office, will be held in London at Lift, Islington on 5 March...
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