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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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 |
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. |
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. |
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: 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. |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | Dilemma Game | Like in any profession, scientists are frequently faced with dilemmas: Can I exclude particular observations from my research? |
Digital Curation Centre | DMPonline | DMPonline is a web-based tool that supports researchers to develop data management and sharing plans. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
ESS EduNet | Multilevel models | Multilevel analysis has become popular in many fields of social research. |
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. |
CLARIN Legal Information Platform | Personal Data Protection | This section includes information relevant to Personal Data Protection: |
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. |
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 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 | 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: 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 |
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 |
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 | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
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. |
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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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 |
DARIAH-CAMPUS | DARIAH-Campus is a hosting platform and discovery framework for learning resources in the digital arts and humanities. |
DARIAH 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 |
DelftX - Free online courses from Delft University of Technology | Free online courses from Delft University of Technology on edX |
Delft University of Technology |
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 |
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 |
Harvard University: online courses | About 200 online courses dedicated to various disciplines including humanities and social sciences. |
Harvard University |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |