The National Centre for Research Methods Courses

Data Quality and Data Management

Syllabus: Data Linkage and the ESRC, Peter Elias. Civil Society and Data Linkage in the Age of Big Data, Rob Procter. Exploring the Social and Ethical Issues in Data Linkage, Mandy Chessell. Civil Liberties and Data Linkage, Ian Dunt. What data are avail…

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• 3-4 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Qualitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

Syllabus: Challenges of coverage, Sampling and participation in mixed mode surveys by Professor Peter Lynn. Democratisation of Research Methods - Discussant by Professor Melanie Nind. What is problem-centred interviewing by Dr Herwig Reiter. Giving voice…

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• 13 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis

Syllabus: What are imitation games? By Rob Evans. What is meta-analysis? by Steven Higgins. The impossibility of separating age, period and cohort effects by Mr Andrew Bell. Methods for testing trends in mental health - is it really possible to compare l…

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• 13 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

The Value and Place of Qualitative Research in Science Policy-Making

Syllabus: The Value and Place of Qualitative Research in Science Policy-Making_Sir Roland Jackson.The Value and Place of Qualitative Research in Science Policy-Making_Professor Judith Petts.The Value and Place of Qualitative Research in Science Policy-Ma…

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• Less than 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Introduction to Poisson regression models for count data

Syllabus: Diagnostics in Poisson regression models-residual analysis; Gabriele Durrant (part 3 of 3). Goodness of Fit Statistics for Poisson Regression, Gabriele Durrant (part 2 of 3). Poisson regression models for count data; Gabriele Durrant (part 1 of…

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• Less than 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Social Science Methods & Automated Data Algorithms

Syllabus: Introduction to NCRM and our 'Social Science Methods and Automated Data Algorithms' event.The Ada Lovelace Institute: Ensuring data and AI work for people and society.Understanding predictive privacy harms - Orwellian when accurate, Kafkaesque…

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• 1-2 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Binary logistic regression

Syllabus: Binary logistic regression: introduction (video 1 of 3). Binary logistic regression: Multivariate binary logistic regression (vid 2 of 3). Binary logistic regression: Interactions (video 3 of 3).

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• Less than 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Ordinal logistic regression

Syllabus: Ordinal regression Part 1: Introduction. Ordinal regression Part 2: Multiple ordinal regression. Ordinal regression Part 3: Proportional odds assumption.

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• Less than 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Multinominal logistic regression

Syllabus: Multinominal logistic regression, Part 1: Introduction. Multinomial logistic regression, Part 2: Multiple multinomial regression.

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• Less than 1 hour of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course

Web Scraping and Covid 19

Syllabus: Web scraping and Covid-19: Introduction. Web scraping and Covid-19: html. Web scraping and Covid-19: Example 1. Web scraping and Covid-19: Example 2. Web scraping and Covid-19: Covid 1. Web scraping and Covid-19: Covid 2. Web scraping and Covid…

• YouTube
• 2-3 hours worth of material
• Self paced
• Free Online Course