methods@manchester: research methods in the social sciences

Courses and Training

 

 

Short Courses in Research Methods Training at Manchester:


All forthcoming training courses

Events

 

 

methods@manchester runs many seminars, workshops, conferences, discussions and meetings:


All forthcoming events

 

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What is ...?

A series of lunch-time talks providing short, accessible introductory guides to key research methods. The talks are ideal for research students, or their supervisors, who want to find out what the method does.

 

These events focus on particular methods or resources and provide an opportunity for discussion and exchange. Suggestions for workshops are welcome.

 

Manchester Methods Summer School

Introduction to social network analysis using UCINET and Netdraw
This is an introductory course, covering the concepts, methods and data analysis techniques of social network analysis.

Advanced methods for social network analysis
This course assumes basic statistical knowledge such as regression and familiarity with R together with a basic knowledge of social network analysis as given in the introductory course (see above).

Hands-on, participatory and visual: Ketso as a research method

This is an introductory course, aimed at researchers who wish to involve stakeholders or community members in their research, and who wish to learn skills in effective stakeholder engagement, using Ketso.

 

Advanced Structural Equation Modelling and Generalized Latent Variable Modelling -  This course introduces GLVM using the Mplus statistical package.

Please note: Fees Apply

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Past Events

Recordings from What is...? seminars and and the full past events list, as well as past seminar series.

Events usually have the twitter hashtag #methodsmcr (unless clearly announced otherwise)

podcast from itunes Submit your event to the m@m diary here. If you cannot find the course you want search the NCRM training database.To subscribe to the recordings of our events, you can add our podcast feed (all media, or just audio or video). If you use a calendar which can subscribe to events, we have a set of iCal feeds, and details of our past events.