Past events

We regularly organise methods-related events and our archive is a great way to see which topics have been covered previously.

Browse through our past events by academic year:

Past events 2022-2023

  • Methods Masterclass: 'Ethics in Times of Adversity' with Dr Helen Kara
  • Methods Masterclass: 'Latent Growth Models and Latent Growth Mixture Models' with Prof Roberta Fida
  • Methods Masterclass: 'Researcher vulnerability workshop' with Dr Chloe Steadman (Manchester Metropolitan University)
  • Methods Fair 2023
  • Summer School 2023

Past events 2018-2019

  • Stand: North West Digital Research Methods Festival – 13th  September 2018
  • Seminar: Research Careers (Social Research Association) – 18th  September 2018
  • Workshop: Introduction to Python (Royal Statistics Society) – 18-19th  September 2018
  • Workshop: Introduction to R Regression Modelling in R (Royal Statistics Society) – 20-21st  September 2018
  • Presentation by Director: School of Education, Environment and Development, University of Manchester, PGR welcome event – 20th  September 2018
  • Workshop: Interactive Data Visualisation (Royal Statistics Society) – 25-26th  September 2018
  • Stand: Government Statistical Service Conference – 2-3rd October 2018
  • Seminar: Practices of sensory attention in multi-species ethnography (Maisie Tomlinson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester) – 4th October 2018
  • Workshop: Cultivating Curiosity - multi-species ethnography (Maisie Tomlinson, Dept. of Sociology, University of Manchester) – 11th October 2018
  • Workshop: Introduction to Quantitative Evaluation and Survey Design for Evaluation (Methods for Change) – 12th October 2018
  • Seminar: The Wonderful World of Market Research (Irina Dimitriade, Mustard Research) – 25th October
  • Methods Fair 2018 – Digital Methods for Social Research – 29th October 2018
  • Seminar: Doing Visual Sociology – Case Studies from the Grave (Terence Heng, University of Liverpool) – 6th November 2018
  • Workshop: Exploring your research through LEGO Serious Play (Alison James, University of Winchester) – 13th November 2018
  • Seminar:  Studying Extreme Teams (Nathan Smith, Dept of Politics, University of Manchester) – 5th December 2018
  • Workshop: Academic Presentation Skills (Tina Hannemann, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester) – 7th December 2018
  • Workshop: Gentle Introduction to Statistical Analysis for Evaluation (Methods for Change) – 14th February 2019
  • Seminar: How to do Citizen's Juries (Malcolm Oswald, School of Law, University of Manchester) – 12th March 2019
  • Webinar: Using app-based and sensing methods for social science research (Reka Solymosi, School of Law, University of Manchester and Michael Chataway, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) – 21st March 2019
  • Seminar: An introduction to n-of-1 methods in health-related research (Suzanne MacDonald, Centre for Clinical Research, University of Queensland, Australia) – 25th March 2019
  • Sponsored Workshop: Researching (In)equalities at Work': Postgraduate Researchers' Methods Symposium (Kara Ng, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester – 5th April 2019
  • Workshop: The Beautiful Science of Data Visualisation using Tableau (Thierry Driver, Tableau) – 21st May 2019
  • Workshop series: TQ2U 2019 (Bailey de Sousa, Thinking Qualitatively 2U, University of Alberta, USA) – 28 – 29th May 2019
  • Seminar: Researching Online Communities (Irina Dimitriade, Mustard Research) – 30th May 2019
  • Course: NVIVO (Christina Silver, QDAS) – 3 – 4th June 2019
  • Conference: Methodological innovations for 21st century societal challenges (with the Cathie Marsh Institute) – 10th June 2019
  • Sponsored Workshop: Measurement error in longitudinal data analysis (Alex Cernat, Dept of Social Statistics, University of Manchester) – 20 – 21st June 2019
  • Workshop: Reducing Plastic Use Data Dive (UK Data Service/JISC)
  • Summer School – 1 – 12th July 2019

Past events 2017-2018

  • Presentation: SEED PGR welcome event - 01 September 2017
  • Seminar: Social Science Research: good fortune - 04 October 2017
  • Seminar: What is data linkage for longitudinal cohort studies - 09 October 2017
  • Seminar: What is crowdsourced data? - 18 October 2017 
  • Methods Fair 2017 - 01 November 2017 
  • Seminar: Doing research with letters - 08 November 2017
  • Workshop: Intro to CLOSER: Longitudinal resources for reaching and research - 21 November 2017
  • Seminar: How to do Social Network Analysis using STATA - 22 November 2017
  • Workshop: Academic Presentation Skills - 24 November 2017
  • Presentation: Innovative qualitative methods for researching everyday life - 29 November 2017
  • Seminar: MMarching Learning and its applications - 13 February 2018
  • Seminar: Ethno science fiction: projective inprovisation of future scenarios in ethnographic film - 19 March 2018
  • Seminar: Object Interviews and Elicitations - 24 April 2018
  • Seminar: How to use Olfactory methods - 14 May 2018
  • Workshop: Academic Presentation Skills - 16 May 2018
  • Stand: Data Science Conference - 21 May 2018
  • Workshops: Thinking Qualitatively Travelling Workshop - 29-30 May 2018
  • Workshop: NVivo - 4-5 June 2018
  • Summer School 2018

Past events 2016-2017

  • PGR Welcome event - 20 September
  • Seminar: Evaluating the quality of survey and administrative data - 21 September
  • Policy evaluation methods - 4-6 October
  • PGR open day stand - 2 November
  • Methods Fair - 4 November 
  • Course: Discrete choice demand estimation - 7-8 November
  • Playful research methods – new practices and technologies - 15 November
  • Seminar: Employing meta-ethnography in the analysis of qualitative data sets: A new tool for transnational research projects? - 23 November
  • Seminar: Spoken English collections at the British Library - 21 February
  • Workshop: Academic Writing - 13 March 
  • Seminar: A dynamic analysis of word and sound-level effects in sound change - 22 March
  • Workshop: Academic presentation skills - 6 April
  • Workshop: Academic Writing - 4 May
  • Methods North West – Methods X - 10 May
  • SEED PGR Conference stand - 15 May
  • Workshop: Academic presentation skills - 18 May
  • International Institute for Qualitative Methodology: TQ2U Manchester - 23-24 May
  • Course: Harnessing NVivo for qualitative and mixed methods research - 1-2 June

Past events 2015-2016

Past events 2014-2015

Past events 2013-2014

  • Methods Fair 2013 - 9 October 2013
  • R, R-studio and the R-commander: tools for statistical analysis - 16 October 2013
  • Surveying migrants in Europe: an important challenge? - 22 October 2013
  • Data coding and management - 23 October 2013
  • Policy Evaluation Methods - 22-25 October 2013
  • What is UK Data Service? - 24 October 2013
  • Generalized Linear Models: a simple structure for test selection - 30 October 2013
  • Engaging Qualitative Material - 6 November & 16 October 2013
  • Understanding Models using graphics: effect displays - 6 November 2013
  • Research Ethics Workshop - 12 November 2013
  • Ethnography and Observation in Criminological Contexts - 13 November 2013
  • Categorical explanatory variables: Contrast coding, dummy codes and reference categories - 13 November 2013
  • What is Bayesian Analysis? - 14 November 2013
  • Hands-on and visual, an introduction to using Ketso in research - 20 November 2013
  • Logit models: modelling ordered and unordered categorical data - 20 November 2013
  • What is Life History and Biographical Approaches to Research? - 21 November 2013
  • What is Focus Groups? - 28 November 2013
  • Internet Ethnographies - 4 December 2013
  • What is Fixed Effects vs Multilevel Models? - 5 December 2013
  • Workshop 1: Using Latent Variables in Health Inequalities Research - 5 December 2013
  • Statistical Models - 15-17 January 2014
  • What is Path Analysis (for people who hate statistics)? - 30 January 2014
  • Modelling continuous data - 5 February 2014
  • Diagnostics and data transformation - 12 February 2014
  • What is The difference between Latent Class Analysis and Cluster Analysis? - 13 February 2014
  • Modelling ordered categorical data using the proportional-odds logit model - 19 February 2014
  • What is Mind reading with eye tracking... for less than £100!? - 20 February 2014
  • Modelling unordered categorical data using multinomial logistic regression - 26 February 2014
  • Variable selection and multi-model inference - 5 March 2014
  • What is How can agent-based modelling be used in the social sciences? - 6 March 2014
  • Internet Ethnographies - 6 March 2014
  • Missing Data - 12 March 2014
  • Qualitative Software Planning Seminar - 19 March 2014
  • NVivo v10 Introductory hands-on workshop - 20-21 March 2014
  • What is Post-structuralist discourse analysis? - 3 April 2014
  • Statistical Models - 27-29 August 2014
  • LEMMA 3 - 11-12 September 2014

Past events 2012-2013

  • Methods Fair 2012 - 10 October 2012
  • What is Social Network Analysis? - 25 October 2012
  • Internet ethnographies - 27 November 2012
  • What is Case-Control Study? - 8 November 2012
  • What is Confirmatory Factor Analysis? - 15 November 2012
  • What is good qualitative research? - 22 November 2012
  • Seminar on Rasch Modeling - 28 November 2012
  • What is Generalized Method of Moments? - 29 November 2012
  • Pathways from Social Disadvantage to Health: What can we Learn from Longitudinal Analysis? - 5 December 2012
  • What is Survey Weights? - 6 December 2012
  • Auto-photography - 10 December 2012
  • What is Systematic Reviews? - 13 December 2012
  • An Introduction to Multimodal Methods for Researching Digital Data - 17 January 2013
  • Seminar 2: Rasch (and/vs) Factor Analysis - 23 January 2013
  • What is Confounding? - 24 January 2013
  • Generalized Linear Models: a basic statistics course - 28-30 January 2013
  • R and the R-commander (Rcmdr): tools for statistical analysis - 6 February 2013
  • What is Power Calculation? - 7 February 2013
  • Data coding and management - 13 February 2013
  • What is Causal Inference? - 14 February 2013
  • Measures of Deprivation and Area Type - 18 February 2013
  • Generalized linear models: a system for data analysis and test selection - 20 February 2013
  • Categorical explanatory variables: Contrast coding, dummy codes and reference categories - 27 February 2013
  • What is Cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis? - 28 February 2013
  • A hands-on introduction to Agent-Based Modelling for Social Scientists: Exploring Complex and Dynamic Social Processes - 28 February - 1 March 2013
  • Logit models: modelling ordered and unordered categorical data - 6 March 2013
  • What is Meta-analysis? - 7 March 2013
  • 7th annual UK Rasch User Group Meeting - 8 March 2013
  • Variable selection: using restricted-set, multi-model presentations - 13 March 2013
  • Construction, methods and the city: Materiality, visibility and anticipation in the crafting of urban interventions - 20 March 2013
  • Siblings Day @Manchester Art Gallery - 23 March 2013
  • Researching Conflict: Methods and Ethics - 18 April 2013
  • Hands-on and visual, an introduction to using Ketso in research - 24 April 2013
  • Qualitative Software Planning Seminar - 2 May 2013
  • NVivo version 9 introductory one-day hands-on workshop - 3 May 2013
  • NOVELLA Workshop - 17 May 2013
  • Symposium and public lecture: The future of the multi-ethnic city - 29 May 2013
  • Manchester Methods Summer School - 17-21 June 2013
  • Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA): an interdisciplinary introduction - 2 July 2013
  • Researching everyday life -  9 August 2013

Past events 2011-2012

Past events 2010-2011

  • Research methods for new immigrant groups - 10 September 2010
  • Denim workshop: interdisciplinary methods for exploring Narratives and Materiality - 13 September 2010
  • Life Journey: ethnographic methods that merge art and collaborative anthropology in pursuit of a better understanding of disease, death and dying - 16 September 2010
  • Methods Fair - 29 September 2010
  • What is participatory research? - 7 October 2010
  • A one-day workshop on the British Cohort Studies - 8 October 2010
  • What is multilevel modelling? - 14 October 2010
  • A workshop on formulating a research strategy and choosing appropriate design and statistical tools - 19 October 2010
  • What is material culture? - 21 October 2010
  • What is ethnofiction? - 28 October 2010
  • What is data matching and linkage? - 4 November 2010
  • Multilevel modelling day - 10 November 2010
  • Working with International Development Data - 11 November 2010
  • What is time series analysis? - 11 November 2010
  • A talk and workshop on Timescapes: a qualitative longitudinal study - 17 November 2010
  • What is creative interviewing? - 18 November 2010
  • What is action research? - 25 November 2010
  • An introduction to online resources for the analysis of qualitative data - 29 November and 6 December 2010
  • What is sensitive interviewing? - 2 December 2010
  • Research Computing Support for the University of Manchester - 6 December 2010
  • Ethical Concerns for Conducting Sensitive Interviews - 7 December 2010
  • What is GIS? - 9 December 2010
  • Cross-national comparisons and the European Social Survey - 19 January 2011
  • Experiments Research Network Launch Seminar - 19 January 2011
  • Introduction to Qualitative Coding Software - 26 January 2011
  • What is blog analysis? - 27 January 2011
  • What is formal logic? - 3 February 2011
  • What are bayesian methods? - 10 February 2011
  • Reflective practice online: logging, blogging and cataloguing - 15 February 2011
  • Methodological perspectives on causality from different disciplines - 16 February 2011
  • Longitudinal resources for researching ethnicity: Understanding Society and the Millennium Cohort Study - 22 February 2011
  • What is confirmatory factor analysis? - 24 February 2011
  • Using social media tools for marketing and engagement - 1 March 2011
  • Manchester Digital Media Network (MDMN) method(s): challenges of online research - 2 March 2011
  • What is grounded theory? - 3 March 2011
  • You’re having a laugh? Using comedy for communicating your research - 8 March 2011
  • Qualitative Data Analysis Software - 24 March 2011
  • Qualitative Innovations in CAQDAS (QUIC) events - 25 March 2011
  • Experiments Research Network Second Seminar - 30 March 2011
  • Are national statistics on subjective well-being valid and reliable? - 4 April 2011
  • What is archival research? - 10 March 2011
  • What is experimental design? - 17 March 2011
  • What is Visual Analytics (VA)? - 31 March 2011
  • Using Ethnographic Methods Workshop - 6 April 2011
  • What is agent-based social simulation - 7 April 2011
  • Research Ethics and the University's Research Ethics Committee - 13 April 2011
  • What is email interviewing? - 14 April 2011
  • Critical Reading for Self Critical Writing: Introduction to a Structured Approach for Reviewing Literature - 13 May 2011
  • Voters in Social and Political Context - 26 May 2011
  • Estimating and Measuring the effects of Inequality - 15 June 2011
  • Third Experiments Research Networks Seminar - 22 June 2011
  • Measurement and Modelling - 1 July 2011
  • Open Educational Resources for Research methods - 27 July 2011

Past events 2009-2010