The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit provides an inventory of training materials relevant for the Social Sciences and Humanities.
Use the search bar to discover materials or browse through the collections. The filters will help you identify your area of interest.
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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. |
DARIAH-CAMPUS | Controlled Vocabularies and SKOS training at DARIAH Campus | Training module about controlled vocabularies and SKOS. |
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: 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. |
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. |
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). |
DARIAH-CAMPUS | FAIR from the perspective of the Humanities | Slides presented at the Applying the FAIR data principles in day-to-day library practice workshop at the LIBER2019 conference on 29.06.2019. |
FOSTER Open Sciences: Courses | Foster Course on Course Creation | The aim of this tutorial is to assist course instructors with creating new courses and editing existing ones in the FOSTER portal. |
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. |
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 |
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: 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. |
Software Carpentry | R for Reproducible Scientific Analysis | An introduction to R for non-programmers using gapminder data |
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: 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. |
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. |
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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Coursera | MOOC, offering diverse online teaching including single courses, specializations, professional certificates, mastertrack certificates and online degrees. |
Coursera |
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 |
edX | edX is a global nonprofit platform for education and learning. |
MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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. |
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History | The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is the University of Luxembourg’s third interdisciplinary research centre, focusing on high-quality research, analysis and public d |
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History |
TeSS (Training eSupport System) | Browsing, discovering and organising life sciences training resources, aggregated from ELIXIR nodes and 3rd-party providers. |
ELIXIR |
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: Secure Lab | The UK Data Service SecureLab has enabled secure access to the most sensitive and confidential data in the collection since 2011. |
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 |