The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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Source of item | Title | Description |
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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. |
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. |
The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE): Special Data Sets | easySHARE | easySHARE is a simplified HRS-adapted dataset for student training, and for researchers who have little experience in quantitative analyses of complex survey data. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
GESIS Training | Linking Twitter & Survey Data | The workshop will cover the ethical and operational issues associated with linking Twitter and survey data. |
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. |
ESS EduNet | Multilevel models | Multilevel analysis has become popular in many fields of social research. |
ODI: open data institute | ODI Webinars and Courses | A variety of courses and webinars available upon registration. Some of them are free of charge. |
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. |
UK Data Service: Data Skills | QAMyData | QAMyData is an easy-to-use, open source tool that provides a health check for numeric 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. |
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 |
UK Data Service: Secure Lab | Secure Lab User Guide | This is a guide to the UKDS Secure Lab. |
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: 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: 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: Manage Data | Webinar recordings | Youtube playlist of past webinars organised by the UK Data Service. Topics include: |
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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DARIAH-CAMPUS | DARIAH-Campus is a hosting platform and discovery framework for learning resources in the digital arts and humanities. |
DARIAH ERIC |
DCAF | Geneva Center for Security Center Governance (DCAF) is dedicated to making states and people safer, within a framework of democratic governance, the rule of law and respect for human rights. Since |
Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance |
DelftX - Free online courses from Delft University of Technology | Free online courses from Delft University of Technology on edX |
Delft University of Technology |
ESS EduNet | ESS EduNet is a training resource mainly developed for use in higher education. |
ESS ERIC |
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 |
IASSIST Community Webinars | IASSIST Professional Developement Committee organizes and hosts IASSIST Community Webinars. Webinars usually last about 45-60 minutes. |
IASSIST |
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 |
IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework | The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a group of standard APIs around sharing and reuse of media. |
IIIF Consortium |
OpenAIRE Training and Support | OpenAIRE wants to shift scholarly communication towards openness and transparency and facilitate innovative ways to communicate and monitor research. |
OpenAIRE |
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 |
RDA Trainings & Webinars | RDA offers a series of training webinars, face-to-face workshops, hackathons/datathons partly organized as “summer schools” and special meetings on request. |
Research Data Alliance |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |