The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
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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. |
The Carpentries Workshops | Data Carpentry Social Sciences Onboarding | The Social Sciences workshop can be taught using R as the base language. |
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: Teaching with Data | Teaching resource: Interview methods | This teaching resource provides instructors and students with materials designed to assist in teaching qualitative interviewing. |
SERISS Project | Concepts in data harmonisation | During this Train the Trainer course, Kristi Winters (GESIS) discusses key concepts in variable harmonization. |
FD Mentor | Train-the-trainer concept for research data management | As part of the project FDMentor, a German-language train-the-trainer program on research data management was created and piloted in a |
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. |
Data Carpentry | Geospatial Data Curriculum | This workshop is co-developed with the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). |
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. |
Erasmus University Rotterdam | Dilemma Game | Like in any profession, scientists are frequently faced with dilemmas: Can I exclude particular observations from my research? |
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 |
Training Courses | European Social Survey (ESS) | Questionnaire Design and Development Tool | The Questionnaire Design and Documentation Tool is intended to provide an interactive and dynamic web-based tool which can be used to both document and retrieve information on the complex process o |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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: Survey and Census Data | Using survey data | This guide aims to help researchers utilise extensive survey data available. |
CORBEL and EOSC-Life joint webinar series | How to make your event successful and eligible for EU funding: Event management for Research Infrastructures (Webinar) | The Event management webinar will focus on practical aspects of event organisation within EU research projects and will guide you through some of the most import |
EOSC Hub Project Training Materials | Workshop Report "Training in the EOSC" | This report provides recommendations regarding Rules of Participation for training as well as recommendations regarding practical guidance for training service p |
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: 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. |
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 |
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. |
Learning Hub | What are longitudinal studies? | Part of the Introduction to longitudinal studies Module. |
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. |
School of Simulation and Visualisation at The Glasgow School of Art | How to Fail Your PhD | How to Fail Your Research Degree was created to deliver knowledge and understanding of research processes and techniques, within the context of a postgraduate training programme at Glasgow School o |
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 |
The new social learning blog | A new generation of tools for meeting and networking online | There is a new generation of tools that enriches the toolset of online facilitators. |
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 |
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 |
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. |
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. |
edX | Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change | Learn principles and strategies for engaging with global communities through partnerships, research, service, and learning. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 Data Service: Survey and Census Data | Mapping Census Data in QGIS | This guide will cover how to map census data in QGIS. |
#dariahTeach | Introduction to Digital Humanities | Through a series of videos featuring a variety of voices and perspectives and discussing a range of methodologies and theoretical approaches, this course aims to explore the history, practice and p |
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. |
DigCurV - Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe Project | CURATE! The Digital Curator Game | The CURATE game is designed to be used as an exercise that prompts players to put themselves into digital project scenarios in order to address issues and challenges that arise when institutions en |
University of Helsinki | Computational Morphology with HFST | The course demonstrates how HFST tools can be used for generating finite-state morphologies. Through practical exercises, students will learn how to use finite-state methods to develop a morphology |
OpenAIRE Training and Support | OpenAIRE CoP training coordinators | The Community of Practice for Training Coordinators (CoP) is an informal network to share training experiences initiated by a group of people who coordinate training programmes of research and e-in |
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. |
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. |
Title | Description | Organisation |
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The new social learning blog | In The new social learning blog, suggestions for online training and toolkits and for designing online or blended learning are made. |
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Alison | Alison is one of the world’s largest free learning platforms for education and skills training. |
Alison |
#dariahTeach | #dariahTeach is a platform for Open Educational Resources (OER) for Digital Arts and Humanities educators and students, but also beyond this aiming at Higher Education across a spectrum of discipli |
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, DARIAH ERIC |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Dutch Digital Heritage Network: Training and Education | In this project we are developing a training programme in which employees of heritage institutions gain the knowledge they need to make digital heritage visible, |
Digital Heritage Netherlands |
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 |
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 |
EOSC-Synergy Training Platform | EOSC-Synergy training platform is set of tools for the creation and conduction EOSC related training courses. |
EOSC-synergy |
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 |
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 |
GESIS Notebooks | Have a Binder-Ready repository? With GESIS Notebooks, turn this repository into a persistent Jupyter environment, allowing you to continue your analysis from anywhere at any time. |
GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences |
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 |
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 |
Harvard University: online courses | About 200 online courses dedicated to various disciplines including humanities and social sciences. |
Harvard University |
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 |
INASP | INASP in an international development organization with over 25 years’ experience of working with a global network of partners in Africa, Latin America and Asia. |
International Network for Advancing Science and Policy |
LFT | Living for Tomorrow (reg. 80107048) was founded on August 17, 1999. |
LFT |
National Coordination Point Research Data Management: RDM Advice and Tips | National Coordination Point Research Data Management (LCRDM) is a national network of experts in the field of research data management (RDM). |
National Coordination Point Research Data Management |
New Mexico Broadband Program | The New Mexico Department of Information Technology was created in 2007 to provide state government a strong technical foundation to better serve its citizens and to create more accountability and |
New Mexico Department of Information Technology |
NHS Education for Scotland | NHS Education for Scotland (NES) is an education and training body and a special health board within NHS Scotland, with responsibility of developing and delivering education and training for the he |
NHS Education for Scotland |
ODI: open data institute | ODI offers courses, webinars and talks for those who are beginning to teach others about open data. |
Open Data Institute |
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 |
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 |
Data Carpentry | Building communities teaching universal data literacy. Facilitation and development of lessons for Data Carpentry workshops. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
UNODC | For two decades, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been helping make the world safer from drugs, organized crime, corruption and terrorism. |
UNODC |