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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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 |
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. |
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 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. |
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. |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | Dilemma Game | Like in any profession, scientists are frequently faced with dilemmas: Can I exclude particular observations from my research? |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Data management support for researchers | LEGO: Metadata for Reproducibility game pack | This is a set of resources for the LEGO® Metadata for Reproducibility game. |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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: 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. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
IIIF - International Image Interoperability Framework | The Transcriptinator | A prototype "game" created for use on the British Library's crowd-sourcing arcade machine. |
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. |
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. |
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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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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
edX | edX is a global nonprofit platform for education and learning. |
MIT - Massachusetts Institute 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 |
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. |
IASSIST Community Webinars | IASSIST Professional Developement Committee organizes and hosts IASSIST Community Webinars. Webinars usually last about 45-60 minutes. |
IASSIST |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |