Other Training Resources
If you are interested in developing your skills, there are lots of options and organisations that provide training and information. CDCS offers training bursaries that enable University of Edinburgh researchers to benefit from training provided by other organisations.

University of Edinburgh
IAD
The Institute for Academic Development (IAD) offers research skills courses.
Linkedin learning
LinkedIn Learning is an online skills development service offering an extensive library of high-quality video courses in digital, technology, creative and business skills.
Edinburgh Q-Step Centre
The Edinburgh Q-Step Centre provides quantitative methods training for social scientists.
Aqmen
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.
Coding Club
The Coding Club is a group of ecology and environmental science students and researchers from the University of Edinburgh. Their aim is to replace statistics anxiety and code fear with inspiration and motivation to learn.
Digital Skills
Part of Information Services, Digital Skills offers a broad array of courses.
Local and National Organisations
Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute is the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, with headquarters at the British Library
Software Sustainability Institute
The Software Sustainability Institute cultivates better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research. They also support the global Data and Software Carpentry training movement.
datalab
DataLab is Scotland's Innovation Centre for data and AI, whose mission is to help Scotland maximise value from data and lead the world to a data-powered future.
CodeClan
Code Clan is an industry-led digital skills academy whose mission is to help bridge the digital skills gap in Scotland.
Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
The UK's largest facilitator of funding, training and support for doctoral students in social science
Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities
Training for researchers and practitioners in the Arts and Humanities.
Intensive Courses
Digital Humanities Summer Institute (Victoria, Canada)
DHSI is a community-based environment for discussing and learning about new technologies and how they influence teaching, research, creation, and preservation in different disciplines.
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School
Training in the Digital Humanities for academics at all career stages, students, project managers, and people who work in IT, libraries, and cultural heritage.
Amsterdam Methods Initiative: Summer and Winter Schools
An intensive Digital Methods Summer School and Winter School in which students learn and develop internet research techniques for studying societal conditions and cultural change.
Online Digital Methods Courses
Other Online Resources
- Datacamp
- LinkedIn Learning
- THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES LITERACY GUIDEBOOK (CMU)
- HARVARDX
- SKILLSHARE
- CODEACADEMY
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- coursera
- OPEN YALE
- UDEMY
- TREEHOUSE
- LIBRARY CARPENTRY
- Software Carpentry
- Data Carpentry
- Cultural Heritage Imaging (RTI & Photogrammetry)
- DendroSearch - Query tool for Ancient Greek Treebanks
- copyright, licensing & data protection resources (NAOMI KORN)
- Access & Copyright for 3D Scanning (GLAM 3D)
- FOSTER Open Sciences
- OpenAIRE
- EOSC-hub
- TeSS (Training eSupport System)
- Research Data Alliance
- Project Checklist for Research Data (Caltech)
- Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud Training toolkit
- Legal Information Platform for Researchers (CLARIN)
- The Data Management Expert Guide (CESSDA)
- BUILDING LEGAL LITERACIES FOR TEXT DATA MINING: COPYRIGHT (NEH)
- The Digital Humanities Toolbox (Purdue University)