The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Use the search bar to discover materials or browse through the collections. The filters will help you identify your area of interest.
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Title | Description | Organisation |
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The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE): Special Data Sets | The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks |
SHARE ERIC |
DelftX - Free online courses from Delft University of Technology | Free online courses from Delft University of Technology on edX |
Delft University of Technology |
IASSIST Community Webinars | IASSIST Professional Developement Committee organizes and hosts IASSIST Community Webinars. Webinars usually last about 45-60 minutes. |
IASSIST |
ESS EduNet | ESS EduNet is a training resource mainly developed for use in higher education. |
ESS ERIC |
Harvard University: online courses | About 200 online courses dedicated to various disciplines including humanities and social sciences. |
Harvard University |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | The platform aims to introduce researchers with basic notions related to the legislative and licensing framework in Europe on Copyright and Data Protection: |
CLARIN ERIC |
Data management support for researchers | The University of Glasgow has a range of resources to support researchers seeking to manage their research data. |
University of Glasgow |
The new social learning blog | In The new social learning blog, suggestions for online training and toolkits and for designing online or blended learning are made. |
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EHRI Training | The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) portal offers interactive and online courses in Holocaust Studies, as well as information and useful links on Seminars and Workshops, Fellowshi |
EHRI |
Coursera | MOOC, offering diverse online teaching including single courses, specializations, professional certificates, mastertrack certificates and online degrees. |
Coursera |
PARTHENOS Project | PARTHENOS stands for “Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies”. |
CLARIN ERIC, DARIAH ERIC, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, King’s College London, Academy of Athens, Trinity College Dublin |
Copyright Guide at the University of Sussex | Copyright gives legal protection to the creators of certain kinds of work so that they can control the way they may be exploited. |
University of Sussex |
GESIS Training | At GESIS we offer a wide range of events, especially training courses on empirical social research methods. |
GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences |
Learning Hub | Learning modules on longitudinal studies. Each module of the Learning Hub can be downloaded to work through offline. |
University College London |
UK Copyright Literacy | Decoding copyright and bringing you enlightenment - a blog from Chris Morrison and Jane Secker. |
UK Copyright Literacy |
School of Simulation and Visualisation at The Glasgow School of Art | The School of Simulation and Visualisation is a state of the art research centre at The Glasgow School of Art focussing on cutting-edge real-time 3D visualization and interaction technologies. |
Glasgow School of Art |
DARIAH-CAMPUS | DARIAH-Campus is a hosting platform and discovery framework for learning resources in the digital arts and humanities. |
DARIAH ERIC |
Training catalogue ENVRI | Training catalogue of the ENVRI community. This catalogue is designed to facilitate findability, sharing and reuse of educational resources on FAIR data management. |
ENVRI |
UK Data Service: Data Skills | This source includes interactive modules designed for users who want to get to grips with key aspects of survey, longitudinal and aggregate data as well as tools that can be used to assess and impr |
UK Data Service |
UK Data Service: Teaching with Data | This is a collection of resources dedicated to teachers, trainers and their students but could also be useful to researchers and the general public. |
UK Data Service |
The Carpentries Workshops | The Carpentries teaches in-person or online workshops around the world on the foundational skills to work effectively and reproducibly with data and code. |
The Carpentries |
University of Huddersfield Library Services | University of Huddersfield’s Library holds over 330,000 book and journal items, and provides access to around 750,000 electronic resources. |
University of Huddersfield |
JISC | Provides digital solutions aimed primarily for UK education and research. |
JISC |
Cranfield Online Research Data (CORD) | CORD (Cranfield Online Research Data) is an institutional data repository, where you should store any research data that must be preserved, if there is |
Cranfield University |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | This source includes a series of resources in the form of guides and e-books dedicated to trainers and students interested in sample design, weighting, changes over time using cross sectional and l |
UK Data Service |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Online data management guidance and resources for researchers, developed by the UK Data Service. |
UK Data Service |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | Erasmus University Rotterdam is a highly ranked, international research university, based in the dynamic and diverse city of Rotterdam. Education and Research |
Erasmus University Rotterdam |
ICPSR Teaching & Learning | ICPSR is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. They acquire, preserve, and distribute original research data and provide training in its analysis. |
ICPSR |
edX | edX is a global nonprofit platform for education and learning. |
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
DigCurV - Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe Project | DigCurV, was a project funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci programme to establish a curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation launched today. |
Digital Renaissance Foundation, Goettingen State and University Library, Humanities Advanced Technology Institute, Institute of Museum and Library Services, MDR, University of Toronto, Trinity College Dublin, Vilniaus Universiteto Biblioteka, Digital Preservation Coalition, The nestor qualification consortium |
FD Mentor | Roadmaps, recommendations for action and good practice examples for the strategic development and improvement of research data management at German-speaking universities are developed for subsequen |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Technical University of Berlin, University of Potsdam, European University Viadrina |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | The Data Management Expert Guide is designed by European experts from the CESSDA Training Working Group to help social science researchers m |
Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives |
Library Carpentry | Library Carpentry workshops teach people working in library- and information-related roles how to: |
The Carpentries |
Social Sciences and Law - University of Bristol | Our academics work in a wide range of research centres and groupings across economics, education, human geography, law, policy studies, sociology, politics and international studies and are committ |
University of Bristol |
Software Carpentry | Teaching basic lab skills for research computing. Lessons and workshops in three core topics: the Unix shell, version control with Git, and a programming language (Python or R). |
The Carpentries |
The Library Advisory Group (LAG) at the University of Essex | Library Services at the University of Essex comprises 3 libraries located in Colchester, Loughton, |
University of Essex |
Australian Research Data Commons Training Materials | The ARDC is a transformational initiative that enables Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant, leading edge data intensive eInfrastructure, platforms, skills an |
The Australian Research Data Commons |
Open Education Resources | Open Education Resources (OERs) are digital resources used in the context of teaching and learning that have been released by the copyright holder under an open licence permitting their use and re- |
University of Edinburgh |
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Erasmus University Rotterdam | Dilemma Game | Like in any profession, scientists are frequently faced with dilemmas: Can I exclude particular observations from my research? |
#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 |
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. |
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. |
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 |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Discover | Chapter on the process of data discovery and reuse, including evaluating data quality. |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Plan | Chapter introducing research data management and data management planning, explaining basic concepts on: |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Archive and Publish | High-quality data have the potential to be reused in many ways. |
CLARIN Knowledge Sharing | Digital Humanities Course Registry | A dynamic map of university courses that deal with CLARIN content. |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Personal Data Protection | This section includes information relevant to Personal Data Protection: |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Licensing Practice | This section includes information on: |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Copyright & Related rights | This section is an introduction to copyright notions and related rights: |
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 |
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 |
Coursera | Research Data Management and Sharing | This course will provide learners with an introduction to research data management and sharing. |
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. |
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. |
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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Data Carpentry | Geospatial Data Curriculum | This workshop is co-developed with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). |
Data Carpentry | Social Science Curriculum | This workshop uses a tabular interview dataset from the SAFI Teac |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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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Digital Curation Centre | DMPonline | DMPonline is a web-based tool that supports researchers to develop data management and sharing plans. |
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 |
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. |
edX | Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change | Learn principles and strategies for engaging with global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning. |
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 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 |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | Videoconference | Conduct online training and consultation wherever you are. Talk, share screen, upload files without installing applications. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
ESS EduNet | Multilevel models | Multilevel analysis has become popular in many fields of social research. |
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. |
ESS EduNet | Measurement errors | A simple procedure to correct for measurement errors in survey research. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework | The Transcriptinator | A prototype "game" created for use on the British Library's crowd-sourcing arcade machine. |
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. |
Learning Hub | What are longitudinal studies? | Part of the Introduction to longitudinal studies Module. |
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. |
Machine Learning for Artists | Machine Learning for Artists @ ITP-NYU, Spring 2016 |
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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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
Software Carpentry | R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis | An introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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 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 |
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. |
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. |
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. |
UK Data Service: Manage Data | Webinar recordings | Youtube playlist of past webinars organised by the UK Data Service. Topics include: |
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: 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 |
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: 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: 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. |
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | Secure Lab User Guide | This is a guide to the UKDS Secure Lab. |
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: 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 | 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 | 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. |
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. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
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. |
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: 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: 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: 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: 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 | Quantitative methods e-books | These quantitative methods e-books and accompanying quizzes are for direct use in teaching students or for self-study. |
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 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: Using psychosocial approaches | The resource includes a range of activities that can be used in the classroom or as self-paced learning activities. |
University of Groningen | Privacy by Design in Research | This is privacy by design in research! |
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 |
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. |
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 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. |
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 |
University of Parma | Archilochus of Paros: Elegiac Fragments – XML Archive | Goals and objectives of the training materials: |
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 |
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. |