Past events
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Teaching with census data
09:00 - 11:00 22 October 2024
Census 2021 provides demographic, employment, housing and other characteristics about local populations at neighbourhood level. This free workshop is designed to enable those teaching undergraduate students to use this material to explore substantive questions related to their discipline. The aim of...
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‘Connecting Through Culture as We Age’: Digital Creative Citizenship
11:00 - 12:30 21 October 2024
In this edition of the MUARG Conversation Series, Helen Manchester (University of Bristol) will draw from her recently completed UKRI Healthy Ageing-funded research project ‘Connecting through Culture as we Age’ to explore how all forms of arts and culture participation, particularly those accessed...
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Getting started with secondary analysis
09:00 - 10:30 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...
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Social Statistics Seminar Series - Andrew Bell
13:00 - 14:30 15 October 2024
Intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) - what is it, and how can it be extended for longitudinal data? The intersectional Multilevel Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity and Discriminatory Accuracy (MAIHDA) approach is gaining prominence in...
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Ethical and legal guidelines in data sharing
09:00 - 10:30 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...
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Dissertation projects: Introduction to secondary analysis for qualitative and quantitative data
09:00 - 10:30 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...
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Computational social science drop-in
12:00 - 13:00 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...
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Lane Lecture 2024: Delivering Occupational Health Research in Government: an important front line service?
16:00 - 19:00 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...
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How to become a computational social scientist
09:00 - 10:30 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...
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Introduction to effective and practical research data management
09:00 - 10:30 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,...
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