Training

If you are interested in developing your skills, there are lots of options locally and further afield.

Centre for Data, Culture & Society Training 

The Centre for Data, Culture & Society offers a training programme, designed to help researchers develop new skills that enable them to conduct their research more effectively.  Details of upcoming training courses can be found on our events page. 

We welcome suggestions for future training events. Just get in touch and let us know what you’d like to see on our programme. 

Peer learning cohorts are small groups of motivated people, meeting to work together and support one another when completing online courses. Groups meet regularly to work through course materials together, with the guidance of a facilitator.

We also provide a limited number of bursaries that enable University of Edinburgh researchers (staff and post-graduate) to attend specialist training provided by other organisations. 

 

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Luis Reyes

Thanks to the support of the CDCS bursary award, I had the opportunity to attend an intensive course in Experiments with R, at the University of Barcelona.

Learning about principal components, hierarchical factors, fixed and random effects, and clusterisation with the use of software R, endowed me with the analytical toolkit to develop a Multi-Level Structural Equation Model for my research, on “Public Confidence in Policing”. A better understanding of such techniques allowed me to refine my analytical approach to variables, such as police ‘trust’ and ‘legitimacy’, that influence confidence at the individual and neighbourhood levels.

Not only did I get deeper statistical knowledge currently applied in my research, but I also expanded my network of academic contacts. This will have a significant impact on my career development as a scholar.

- Luis Reyes, PhD, Edinburgh Law School, The University of  Edinburgh, 2018-2020.

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh provides a range of training opportunities for researchers:

Digital Skills (part of Information Services) provides a wide range of IT skills courses. 

The Institute for Academic Development (IAD) offers research skills courses.

All staff and students have access to LinkedIn Learning, an online skills development service offering an extensive library of high-quality video courses in digital, technology, creative and business skills.

The Edinburgh Q-Step Centre provides quantitative methods training for social scientists.

AQMEN, based in the School of Social and Political Science,  is an established provider of training, capacity building and knowledge exchange activities in the area of statistical methods and data analysis.  

 

Local and National

International

Online Resources

Online Courses in Research Methods