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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Source of item | Title | Description |
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CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Archive and Publish | High-quality data have the potential to be reused in many ways. |
TeSS (Training eSupport System) | Best practices in research data management and stewardship | This two-day course (27 and 28 May, 2020) is aimed at project managers, researchers and graduate students in the biomedical sciences who wish to improve their skills on data handling. |
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. |
SERISS Project | Concepts in data harmonisation | During this Train the Trainer course, Kristi Winters (GESIS) discusses key concepts in variable harmonization. |
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. |
DARIAH-CAMPUS | DARIAH Pathfinder to Data Management Best Practices in the Humanities | The article summarises and critiques various training provisions around best practices in Research Data Management. |
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: 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. |
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 |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Discover | Chapter on the process of data discovery and reuse, including evaluating data quality. |
Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) Support | Essentials 4 Data Support | Essentials 4 Data Support is an introductory course for those people who (want to) support researchers in storing, managing, archiving and sharing their research data. |
SERISS Project | FAIR data management | Video is a talk by Anna Schwickerath (GESIS) on how to make your data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). |
DARIAH-CAMPUS | FAIR from the perspective of the Humanities | Slides presented at the Applying the FAIR data principles in day-to-day library practice workshop at the LIBER2019 conference on 29.06.2019. |
FOSTER Open Sciences: Courses | Foster Course on Course Creation | The aim of this tutorial is to assist course instructors with creating new courses and editing existing ones in the FOSTER portal. |
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 |
FOSTER Open Sciences: Courses | How to Reuse the FOSTER Toolkit | In this moderated course you will learn how to reuse the FOSTER toolkit on any other context like the website or the Learning Management System (LMS) of your institution. |
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. |
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. |
FutureLearn | MOOC Delivering Research Data Management Services | Collaboratively developed MOOC by RDNL, DCC and the University of Edinburgh, published on FutureLearn MOOC on delivering RDM services |
OpenScience MOOC | Open Research Data | Open research data refers to the publishing the data underpinning scientific research results so that they have no restrictions on their access. |
OpenScience MOOC | Open Research Software and Open Source | Software and technology underpin modern science. |
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. |
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 |
OpenLearn Create | ORION Open Science Train-the-Trainer MOOC | The ORION Open Science Train-the-Trainer course is intended to guide you in how to facilitate and run training on Open Science. |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Plan | Chapter introducing research data management and data management planning, explaining basic concepts on: |
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 | Protect | Key legal and ethical considerations in creating shareable data. |
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. |
Coursera | Research Data Management and Sharing | This course will provide learners with an introduction to research data management and sharing. |
Data Carpentry | Social Science Curriculum | This workshop uses a tabular interview dataset from the SAFI Teac |
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. |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Train-the-Trainers package | This Train-the-Trainers (TTT) package forms an addition to the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide which was developed by the CESSDA Training Working Group in 2017 and 2018. |
UK Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
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: 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. |
Title | Description | Organisation |
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Alison | Alison is one of the world’s largest free learning platforms for education and skills training. |
Alison |
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 |
Coursera | MOOC, offering diverse online teaching including single courses, specializations, professional certificates, mastertrack certificates and online degrees. |
Coursera |
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataOne) | DataONE is a community driven project providing access to data across multiple member repositories, supporting enhanced search and discovery of Earth and environmental data. |
DataOne |
DelftX - Free online courses from Delft University of Technology | Free online courses from Delft University of Technology on edX |
Delft University of Technology |
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 |
EOSC Hub Project Training Materials | This source provides a list of training materials being developed and used during the EOSC-hub training events. |
EGI Foundation, Data Archiving and Networked Services, SURF, Ruder Boskovic Institute |
FOSTER Open Sciences: Courses | FOSTER Plus (Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond) is a 2-year, EU-funded project, carried out by 11 partners across 6 countries. |
University of Minho, University of Göttingen, The Open University, Electronic Information for Libraries, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Technical University of Denmark, Association of European Research Libraries, Spanish National Research Council, GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, DARIAH ERIC, TIB |
FutureLearn | FutureLearn is a British digital education platform founded in December 2012. The company is jointly owned by The Open University and SEEK Ltd. |
The Open University, SEEK Ltd. |
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 |
Harvard University: online courses | About 200 online courses dedicated to various disciplines including humanities and social sciences. |
Harvard University |
OpenLearn Create | OpenLearn Create provides a lower cost solution for projects and organisations wanting to deliver Open E |
The Open University |
OpenScience MOOC | Research is getting a global makeover, in part thanks to the power of the internet and the tools it provides for us, and in part due to a growing call for accountability (e.g., reproducibility and |
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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 |
Research Data Mantra | Free online course for those who manage digital data as part of the research process. |
EDINA, University of Edinburgh |
Research Data Netherlands (RDNL) Support | Research Data Netherlands is an alliance between 4TU.Centre for Research Data, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) and SURFsara. |
Research Data Netherlands, Data Archiving and Networked Services, SURF, 4TU.ResearchData |
SERISS Project | Synergies for Europe's Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) is a four-year project that aims to strengthen and harmonise social science research across Europe. |
SERISS |
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 |
TeSS (Training eSupport System) | Browsing, discovering and organising life sciences training resources, aggregated from ELIXIR nodes and 3rd-party providers. |
ELIXIR |
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: 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 |