Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research

Programming with Python for Social Science Bootcamp

29 October - 1 November 2019
This four-day bootcamp is aimed at academics and postgraduate researchers across the social sciences wishing to build skills with computer programming as a research method. The event…

Webinar: Key data: Qualitative and mixed methods data

15:00 - 16:00 31 October 2019
This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about the qualitative or mixed-methods data available from the UK Data Service. The UK Data Service provides access…

Webinar: Key data: Business data

15:00 - 16:00 5 November 2019
This webinar is an introduction to Office for National Statistics (ONS) business data available from the UK Data Service, such as the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. The webinar…

Introduction to Data Analysis 1

7 November 2019
Introduction to Data Analysis 1 is designed for those who would like to know more about the theory and practice of quantitative methods, but lack a background in statistics. Rather…

Creative Approaches to Qualitative Researching

11 - 12 November 2019
This course will: Introduce participants to creative qualitative research, both as an overall approach and as a means of generating social science research data; Introduce participants…

Webinar: Key data: Data about countries

15:00 - 16:00 12 November 2019
This introductory webinar is intended for anyone who wants to learn about the international time series data available from the UK Data Service. Your host Richard Wiseman will give…

Introduction to Stata

14 November 2019
The course provides introductory training in Stata, a statistical package increasingly used for social research data analysis which has powerful data manipulation procedures and extensive…

R Essential Skills

12:30 - 16:00 19 November 2019
This ‘Essential Skills in R’ workshop is for any researcher who has data they want to analyse using the R programming language. No prior computational experience is required. This hands-on…

Python Essential Skills

12:30 - 16:00 20 November 2019
This ‘Essential Skills in Python’ workshop is for any researcher who has data they want to analyse using the Python programming language. No prior computational experience is required.…

SQL Essential Skills

12:30 - 16:00 21 November 2019
This SQL Essential Skills workshop is for any researcher who has a larger amount of data they want to pre-process (clean, reduce, summarise), before further analysis. No prior computational…

Excel Essential Skills

12:30 - 16:00 22 November 2019
This introductory course will explore the data analysis functionality of Microsoft Excel 2010. Examples will be worked through to demonstrate what Excel can be used for and how to make…

CMI Seminar: A Counter Public of the Right

15:00 - 16:15 5 December 2019
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Andreas Jungherr from the Center for Data and Methods, University of Konstanz who will be speaking on the topic: A counter public of the right:…

CMI Seminar: Bayesian Methods for Population Forecasting

15:00 - 16:15 16 January 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Jon Forster from The University of Warwick who will be speaking on the topic: Bayesian Methods for Population Forecasting Abstract The estimation…

Webinar: Introduction to agent-based modelling for social scientists

15:00 - 16:00 16 January 2020
Social science seeks to understand and predict patterns involving human behaviour, many of which are large-scale and complex. But social science explanations or predictions can be difficult…

Webinar: A Guide to Weighting in Understanding Society

15:00 - 16:00 22 January 2020
Understanding Society is a complex study with many different features and this complexity is reflected in it's weights. In this free webinar Dr Olena Kaminska, Survey Statistician for…

Introduction to Survival Analysis with STATA

23 January 2020
Outline This course aims to introduce participants to the theory and concept of survival analysis and provides strategies to decide for which research questions this method has benefits…

CMI Seminar: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper: A Tool for Visualizing Multidimensional Datasets

15:00 - 16:30 30 January 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Simon Rudkin from Swansea University who will be speaking on the topic: Topological Data Analysis Ball Mapper: A Tool for Visualizing Multidimensional…

Webinar: Adding real world GIS and census data to agent-based modelling for social scientists

15:00 - 16:00 30 January 2020
Following on from the webinar on 16 January, this session focuses on how social scientists can incorporate real world data in to their computational social science experiments. In this…

CMI Seminar: "Anti-media party cues and selective exposure to political information" by Dr Sebastian Stier, GESIS

15:00 - 16:15 6 February 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Sebastian Stier from GESIS who will be speaking on the topic: Anti-media party cues and selective exposure to political information Abstract Whereas…

Multiple Linear Regression

11 February 2020
Outline This course provides a thorough grounding in the theory and methods of multiple linear regression including model selection, nonlinear relationships, and transformations, dummy…

Logistic Regression

12 February 2020
Outline This course examines the fitting of models to predict a binary response variable from a mixture of binary and interval explanatory variables, using STATA software. The approach…

CMI Seminar: Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Participate in Surveys Using a Smartphone App

15:00 - 16:15 13 February 2020
The Cathie Marsh Institute welcomes Caroline Roberts from The University of Lausanne who will be speaking on the topic: Data Privacy Concerns as a Source of Resistance to Participate…

Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis

19 February 2020
Outline The course covers basic concepts in longitudinal design and analysis. The morning session focuses on the strengths and methodological difficulties of the longitudinal approach…

Longitudinal Data Analysis

20 February 2020
The course covers two of the most useful ways of analysing longitudinal data. In the morning we cover growth curve analysis within a multilevel modelling framework. The theoretical…

Social Data Science Week: Introduction to Python

24 February 2020
Part of Social Data Science Week, a collaboration between the Cathie Marsh Institute and methods@manchester. These courses have been designed for postgraduate researchers, giving you…

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