The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Copyright Guide at the University of Sussex | A copyright game of snakes and ladders | The aim of the game, as with the traditional snakes and ladders, is to be the first player to reach the finish square, 100, by moving acros |
The new social learning blog | A new generation of tools for meeting and networking online | There is a new generation of tools that enriches the toolset of online facilitators. |
University of Helsinki | Applied Language Technology | These learning materials consist of a two-course module that seeks to provide humanities majors with a basic understanding of language technology and the practical skills needed to apply language t |
University of Parma | Archilochus of Paros: Elegiac Fragments – XML Archive | Goals and objectives of the training materials: |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Archive and Publish | High-quality data have the potential to be reused in many ways. |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Bringing synergy to better data management and research in Europe | The course includes a series of recorded videos, quizes, and practical assignments that will allow you to go through the course at your own pace. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Building skills in quantitative methods and statistical software | A collection of quantitative methods e-books and accompanying quizzes for direct use in teaching students or for self-study. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Cite the data | Citing a dataset correctly is just as important as citing articles, books, images and websites - each dataset is a source of evidence to support our argument. |
edX | Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change | Learn principles and strategies for engaging with global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning. |
University of Helsinki | Computational Morphology with HFST | The course demonstrates how HFST tools can be used for generating finite-state morphologies. Through practical exercises, students will learn how to use finite-state methods to develop a morphology |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Consent for data sharing resources | Detailed guidance for researchers, with model consent form and example consent forms, on how to consider future reuse of research data as part of consent procedures with research participants. |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Copyright & Related rights | This section is an introduction to copyright notions and related rights: |
UK Copyright Literacy | Copyright the Card Game Online | Introduction to copyright law and the relationship between licences and copyright exceptions. The four ‘suits’ in the game are: |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Cross sectional and longitudinal survey data | This is an introductory guide to the main types of data with a time element. The guide is a brief overview of key elements in need of consideration when using these types of data. |
DigCurV - Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe Project | CURATE! The Digital Curator Game | The CURATE game is designed to be used as an exercise that prompts players to put themselves into digital project scenarios in order to address issues and challenges that arise when institutions en |
DANS Training | DANS Data Game | DANS has developed a game especially for researchers: the DANS Data Game. The game gives an impression of the research data landscape and was specially produced for the 15th anniversary of DANS. |
ICPSR Teaching & Learning | Data-Driven Learning Guides | These standardized exercises introduce (or reinforce) key concepts in the social sciences by guiding students through a series of questions and related data analyses. |
Research Data Mantra | Data handling tutorials | Practical tutorials to manage and handle research data for particular software packages: SPSS, R, ArcGIS and N-Vivo. Tutorials contain many practical exercises. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Data management training exercises | Set of hands-on exercises that can be used for data management and sharing training, developed from real-case datasets and scenarios. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Data management videos | Youtube playlist of online video tutorials demonstrating practical data management aspects such as writing a data management plan, encrypting data files, backing up data, etc. |
UK Data Service: Data Skills | Data Skills Modules | These introductory level interactive modules are designed for users who want to get to grips with key aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data. |
IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework | David Rumsey MapTab | A IIIF powered, Chrome extension that displays a random map from the David Rumsey Map Collection everytime you open a new tab in your browser. Built using Leaflet-IIIF and React.js. |
Digital Curation Centre | Delivering Research Data Management Services | This is a five-week course for individuals that support researchers to manage and share their data, including librarians, IT and information specialists, data stewards, and research off |
CLARIN Knowledge Sharing | Digital Humanities Course Registry | A dynamic map of university courses that deal with CLARIN content. |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | Dilemma Game | Like in any profession, scientists are frequently faced with dilemmas: Can I exclude particular observations from my research? |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Discover | Chapter on the process of data discovery and reuse, including evaluating data quality. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Dissertation Guide | Guide designed to be used as a resource for encouraging better data management and research integrity in undergraduate dissertations, and is aimed at RDM trainers and teachers supervising research |
Digital Curation Centre | DMPonline | DMPonline is a web-based tool that supports researchers to develop data management and sharing plans. |
Training Courses | European Social Survey (ESS) | Finding and reusing data | This webinar is intended for everyone who wants to learn about ways of finding and reusing research data. Managing your research data in a FAIR and transparent manner is important. |
PARTHENOS Project | Formal Ontologies: A Complete Novice’s Guide | This module is specifically aimed at those who are not yet familiar with ontologies as a means of research data management, and will take you through some of the main features of ontologies, and th |
IASSIST Community Webinars | Free Qualitative Data Analysis with Taguette and Qcoder | Webinar on free and open source qualitative analysis tools. Presentation of the free software Taguette and Qcoder. |
Open Education Resources | Game Jam | A Game Jam is an organised event where a group of people gather with the intention of creating a full game – from conception to completion – in a pre-determined, short period of time. |
University of Sheffield | GATE Training Course | The training materials are all based around teaching the use of GATE, a freely available open-source toolkit for Natural Language Processing that has been widely used in both academia and industry |
Data Carpentry | Geospatial Data Curriculum | This workshop is co-developed with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). |
National Coordination Point Research Data Management: RDM Advice and Tips | Guidelines for the archiving of academic research for faculties of Behavioural and Social Sciences in the Netherlands | These guidelines for the archiving of academic research set out the preconditions for the archiving of data, materials and information that form the basis for pu |
School of Simulation and Visualisation at The Glasgow School of Art | How to Fail Your PhD | How to Fail Your Research Degree was created to deliver knowledge and understanding of research processes and techniques, within the context of a postgraduate training programme at Glasgow School o |
edX | Human Rights: The Rights of Refugees | This short course will enable you to find the answers and empower yourself to defend and promote the rights of refugees and discover how you can be part of the solution. |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Interactive computing | Service based on Jupyter Notebook enables the creation and sharing of documents containing “live” code, equations, visualisations and texts. |
#dariahTeach | Introduction to Digital Humanities | Through a series of videos featuring a variety of voices and perspectives and discussing a range of methodologies and theoretical approaches, this course aims to explore the history, practice and p |
Masaryk University | Introduction to Digital Humanities | The aim of the course is to introduce digital humanities and to describe various aspects of digital content processing. |
CODATA/RDA Schools of Research Data Science | Introduction to Research Data Management and Open Research | This presentation was delivered virtually for Botswana Open University Library on 17th May 2021 as part of a Foundational Data Stewardship Workshop. It is primarily aimed at data stewards |
PARTHENOS Project | Introduction to Research Infrastructures | This module allows to: understand the elements of common definitions of research infrastructures; be able to discuss the importance of issues such as sustainability and interoperability; understand |
University of Helsinki | Introduction to Speech Analysis | This course offers a general picture of managing speech corpora and of the methods that are available for the acoustic-phonetic study of speech. |
ESS EduNet | Latent variable modelling | In the analysis of a cross-national survey such as the European Social Survey (ESS), many research questions naturally involve comparisons between countries. |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Licensing Practice | This section includes information on: |
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | Linking external business data to ONS business data | The UK Data Service is able to assist researchers wishing to link external business data to ONS business data in the Secure Lab. |
Machine Learning for Artists | Machine Learning for Artists @ ITP-NYU, Spring 2016 |
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UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Data in QGIS | This guide will cover how to map census data in QGIS. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Microdata using R | This guide aims to show the strength of using Census Microdata for a variety of research purposes, via a worked example taken from real-life research. |
ESS EduNet | Measurement errors | A simple procedure to correct for measurement errors in survey research. |
Training Courses | European Social Survey (ESS) | Meeting Funders’ Requirements - Archiving and Data Sharing | This introductory webinar is for anyone who is involved in the collection of data and is considering making (some of) their data available in accordance with funders’ requirements. |
ESS EduNet | Multilevel models | Multilevel analysis has become popular in many fields of social research. |
Multimodal Literacies | This course for graduate students invites you to discover the world of the digital multimodal literacies, by history, examples, experiments and editing tools. |
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The Library Advisory Group (LAG) at the University of Essex | Open Access Escape Room | This Open Access themed escape room was created in September/October 2018. This fileset contains all downloadable items and props for the Open Access Escape Room. |
DelftX - Free online courses from Delft University of Technology | Open Science: Sharing Your Research with the World | Explore ways to apply Open Science principles to academic work - including your own. Learn how to share your research effectively and responsibly, building greater visibility and impact. |
University of Siena | Oral Archives for Sociolinguistic Research | The goal of the course in sociolinguistics is to show students the possibilities and challenges offered by oral history archives for (socio)linguistic research. |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Organise and Document | Chapter on how to properly organise and document data and metadata, discussing good practices in designing an appropriate data file structure, file naming and organising data within suitable folder |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Personal Data Protection | This section includes information relevant to Personal Data Protection: |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Plan | Chapter introducing research data management and data management planning, explaining basic concepts on: |
University of Groningen | Privacy by Design in Research | This is privacy by design in research! |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Process | Chapter on the data operations needed to prepare data files for analysis and data sharing, starting with data entry and coding of data files. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Qualibank | QualiBank is an online tool for browsing, searching and citing the content of selected qualitative data collections held at the UK Data Service. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Quantitative methods e-books | These quantitative methods e-books and accompanying quizzes are for direct use in teaching students or for self-study. |
Training Courses | European Social Survey (ESS) | Questionnaire Design and Development Tool | The Questionnaire Design and Documentation Tool is intended to provide an interactive and dynamic web-based tool which can be used to both document and retrieve information on the complex process o |
Software Carpentry | R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis | An introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data |
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | Ranke.2 | Ranke.2 is a teaching platform for lecturers and students of History to teach how to apply source criticism to digitised and digital born historical sources. |
ESS EduNet | Regression | Analysing cross sectional survey data using linear regression methods: A ‘hands on’ introduction using ESS data’ is by Associate Professor Odd Gåsdal of the Depa |
Coursera | Research Data Management and Sharing | This course will provide learners with an introduction to research data management and sharing. |
National Coordination Point Research Data Management: RDM Advice and Tips | Research Data Management: more than just storage | Overview of possible costs per activity within each phase of the research process. |
Social Sciences and Law - University of Bristol | Researchers, Impact & Publications (R.I.P.) Game | Increasing researcher awareness of the importance of the links between good Research Data Management, published articles, funder requirements and the research lifecycle is a large part of a Researc |
edX | Scratch: Programming for Teachers | In this course you will learn the basics of programming and how to teach it yourself as a primary or secondary school teacher. |
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | Secure Lab User Guide | This is a guide to the UKDS Secure Lab. |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Shared drive | Online tools allow you to easily and quickly share personal documents, the results of teams, the work of individual trainees. |
Slavic Corpora Terminology Dictionary in TEI | The corpora linguistics research group at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies (University of Warsaw) has recently started a project collecting Slavic corpora terminology with defin |
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Data Carpentry | Social Science Curriculum | This workshop uses a tabular interview dataset from the SAFI Teac |
EOSC Hub Project Training Materials | SSDS 2018 - Summer School on Data Science Training Materials | Training materials used for the 3rd Int'l Summer School on Data Science (SSDS 2018) Final resource accessible here: https://github.com/SSDS-Croatia/SSDS-2018 |
PARTHENOS Project | Standardization Survival Kit - PARTHENOS Project | The Standardization Survival Kit (SSK) is designed to support researchers in selecting and using the appropriate standards for their particular disciplines and work flows. |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Store | Chapter on storage, backup, recovery and security strategies for research data, to protect them against accidental loss and against unauthorised manipulation. |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Synergy Train the Trainer Programme | Massive open online courses platform. This service is based on the worldwide most popular Moodle platform. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching ideas: Guides for teaching data analysis | This resource is a collection of short guides designed to make lesson planning more efficient for those teaching data analysis skills. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: Britain by Numbers | This resource is designed for teachers to get students to think about data and numbers, teach them how to interpret, analyse and visualise data. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: Interview methods | This teaching resource provides instructors and students with materials designed to assist in teaching qualitative interviewing. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: Introducing quantitative analysis using SPSS | The resource can serve both as an introduction to the Malaise Inventory - an established scale to measure signs of psychological distress - and as an introduction to quantitative analysis using SPS |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: Non-interview methods | This teaching resource provides instructors and students with materials designed to assist in teaching qualitative methods of data collection. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: teaching sociology with archived data | Tutors can use this resource to create an assignment that enable students to learn to engage with a genuine, real-life piece of research. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: The Last Refuge | This resource consists of a series of activities which can be used in the classroom or in self-paced learning. |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: Using psychosocial approaches | The resource includes a range of activities that can be used in the classroom or as self-paced learning activities. |
Training catalogue ENVRI | Terminologies for ENVRIs: why, what and how | Presentations and course material from the ENVRI FAIR session "Terminologies for ENVRIs: why, what and how" held physically in Dresden on 5 February 2020, with the possibility to connect remotely. |
University of Huddersfield Library Services | The Game of Open Access | The Game of Open Access is a board game developed by staff from Computing & Library Services (CLS) at the University of Huddersfield in 2017. |
Cranfield Online Research Data (CORD) | The Impact Game | Game made to enhance researcher knowledge. Enhances our own knowledge of what people know. Generates discussion on library services in general which we can follow up. |
UK Copyright Literacy | The Publishing Trap | The Publishing Trap is an exciting new board game which helps research students, early-career researchers and the wider academic community to learn about and discuss the importance of copyright lit |
IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework | The Transcriptinator | A prototype "game" created for use on the British Library's crowd-sourcing arcade machine. |
FD Mentor | Train-the-trainer concept for research data management | As part of the project FDMentor, a German-language train-the-trainer program on research data management was created and piloted in a |
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | UK Business Data User Conference 2021 | The UK Data Service and the Office for National Statistics (UK) held a business data conference in 2021. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | UKDS training workshops, events and webinars | Training workshops, webinars and events on various data managemnet topics organised by the UK Data Service. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Videoconference | Conduct online training and consultation wherever you are. Talk, share screen, upload files without installing applications. |
ICPSR Teaching & Learning | Videos on Teaching: Conceptualizing and Visualizing Conflict Data with Shiny | ICPSR has a number of video presentations that address a variety of topics on their YouTube Channel. Including Drs. |
Data management support for researchers | Virtual Games Workshop | This workshop was a chance for research support staff to learn how they could design their own games using the Python programming language. |
University of Ljubljana | Voices of the Parliament: A Corpus Approach to Parliamentary Discourse Research | While corpus methods are widely used in linguistics, including gender analysis, this tutorial shows the potential of richly annotated language corpora for research of the socio-cultural context and |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Webinar recordings | Youtube playlist of past webinars organised by the UK Data Service. Topics include: |
Learning Hub | What are longitudinal studies? | Part of the Introduction to longitudinal studies Module. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | What is complex sample design? | This guide covers the basics of sampling as well as other related topics such as clustering, stratification and weighting. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | What is weighting? | This guide explains the main reasons for using weights, how weights work and how to use weighting variables in statistical analysis. |