The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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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 |
CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide | Archive and Publish | High-quality data have the potential to be reused in many ways. |
Australian Research Data Commons Training Materials | ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist v1.1 | The ARDC Training Materials Metadata Checklist aims to support learning designers, training materials creators, trainers and national training infrastructure providers to capture key information an |
Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures & Data Management Toolkit | Belmont Forum Data Management Plan Scorecard | This document is a resource developed for the Belmont Forum for evaluating formal Data Management Plans submitted by research teams who've been awarded Collabora |
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. |
edX | Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change | Learn principles and strategies for engaging with global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning. |
SERISS Project | Concepts in data harmonisation | During this Train the Trainer course, Kristi Winters (GESIS) discusses key concepts in variable harmonization. |
CORBEL and EOSC-Life joint webinar series | Course design and delivery: guidance and tips for impactful training (Webinar) | This webinar will provide a practical look at course design and delivery, giving guidance on the key elements you need to consider to ensure your training meets |
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. |
The Carpentries Workshops | Data Carpentry Social Sciences Onboarding | The Social Sciences workshop can be taught using R as the base language. |
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. |
Data Observation Network for Earth (DataOne) | Data Management Skillbuilding Hub | The Data Management Skillbuilding Hub is a repository for open educational resources regarding data management, meaning that it is a collection of learning resources freel |
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 |
FAIRsFAIR | Design training in easy steps | This module is a part of the introductory online course “Data Steward Training”. |
Digital Preservation Education Working Group | Digital Preservation Essentials: Pre-ingest and Ingest Workshop | This course equips digital preservation professionals with a range of skills relating to various aspects of receiving, handling, and managing digital content. |
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 |
Research Data Mantra | DIY Research Data Management Training Kit for Librarians | Training kit for librarians who wish to gain confidence and understanding of research data management, based on open educational materials, covering five topics: |
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 | Ethical and legal issues in managing and sharing data | Video is a talk by Libby Bishop (GESIS) on ethical and legal issues in managing and sharing data. |
ICPSR Teaching & Learning | "Exercise Modules: Exploring Data Through Research Literature Investigating Community and Social Capital Voting Behavior: The 2016 Election (SETUPS) Exercises at the Social Science Research & Instructional Center, using the 2014 General Social Survey" | These resources are made up of sequenced activities. |
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). |
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. |
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 |
OpenAIRE Training and Support | H2020 OpenAIRE Fact sheets | In an effort to make open access for publications and data simple for everyone, OpenAIRE is creating factsheets with a brief overview of how to comply with H2020 OA mandates and how to use OpenAIRE |
Danish e-Infrastructure Coorporation (DeiC) | How to FAIR: a Danish website to guide researchers on making research data more FAIR | A website from the Danish National Forum for Research Data Management. Concept of research data management. |
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. |
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. |
Harvard University: online courses | Managing Evidence: A CAEL Module | In this era of evidence-driven reform, school leaders must learn to harness an array of data to drive improvement. In this module, you will explore key concepts in performance measurement, research |
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. |
SERISS Project | Meeting funders’ requirements – archiving and data sharing | YouTube Video: This introductory webinar is for anyone who is involved in the collection of data and is considering making (some of) their data available in acco |
CESSDA Resource Directory | Metadata Model Office | Webinar: Accompanying the growing importance of research data management, the provision and maintenance of metadata have obtained a key role in contextualizing, |
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 |
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. |
Digital Preservation Coalition | Online Digital Preservation Training | Part of The National Archives’ new digital capacity building strategy, ‘Plugged In, Powered Up,’ the Novice to Know-How learning pathway aims to provide beginner |
FAIRsFAIR | Open and responsible research | This module is a part of the introductory online course “Data Steward Training”. |
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. |
OpenAIRE Training and Support | OpenAIRE Task Forces | The task forces are a new programme in OpenAIRE Advance to enable capacity building, competencies and awareness raising on different relevant open science topics, involving all partners and NOADs, |
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 | 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! |
SURF e-learning courses | Privacy in Research. What does the GDPR mean for your work as a researcher? | Online dutch module on privacy research and GDPR is developed for researchers who are associated with a university or university of applied sciences. |
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: 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 |
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. |
FAIRsFAIR | Research data management service delivery | This module is a part of the introductory online course “Data Steward Training”. |
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. |
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. |
RDA Trainings & Webinars | The RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model WG: Aligning International Initiatives for Promoting and Assessing FAIR Data | This webinar will convene a group of experts representing national science organizations to discuss their current initiatives to enhance the FAIRness of the science within their communities applyin |
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: 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: 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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Belmont Forum e-Infrastructures & Data Management Toolkit | This repository contains resources (links to training, policies, best practices, and other information) that enable Belmont Forum researchers to meet the Data Ma |
Belmont Forum |
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 |
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 |
CORBEL and EOSC-Life joint webinar series | CORBEL and EOSC-Life joint webinar series: Engaging with your community through events and training. |
CORBEL, EOSC Life |
Coursera | MOOC, offering diverse online teaching including single courses, specializations, professional certificates, mastertrack certificates and online degrees. |
Coursera |
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 |
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 |
Digital Curation Centre | The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is a centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capability and skills for research data management. |
Digital Curation Centre |
Digital Preservation Coalition | As it plays a key role for the DPC to empower and develop their members’ workforces, this page provides access to different training resources that aim to provid |
Digital Preservation Coalition |
edX | edX is a global nonprofit platform for education and learning. |
MIT - Massachusetts Institute 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-Synergy Training Platform | EOSC-Synergy training platform is set of tools for the creation and conduction EOSC related training courses. |
EOSC-synergy |
ESS EduNet | ESS EduNet is a training resource mainly developed for use in higher education. |
ESS ERIC |
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. |
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 |
ODI: open data institute | ODI offers courses, webinars and talks for those who are beginning to teach others about open data. |
Open Data Institute |
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 |
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 |
Research Data Mantra | Free online course for those who manage digital data as part of the research process. |
EDINA, University of Edinburgh |
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 |
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 |
SURF e-learning courses | SURF offers e-learning courses about privacy for various target groups. |
SURF |
TeSS (Training eSupport System) | Browsing, discovering and organising life sciences training resources, aggregated from ELIXIR nodes and 3rd-party providers. |
ELIXIR |
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: Manage Data | Online data management guidance and resources for researchers, developed by the UK Data Service. |
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 |