ESRC-ALCD Training & Dissemination Project by Dick Wiggins

Our focus

The focus of our target audience is full-time and part-time Master's students in quantitative social science research together with research students in ESRC related Departments. It is also expected that the appeal of the project will be broad enough to include professional social science researchers and young academics keen to develop their methodological skills and knowledge of data resources. A central aspect of the project is also to put exemplar analyses in a substantive context. You will be introduced to data sources and method via a series of research questions. Once data have been extracted the training materials should take users through standard analyses and encourage them to ask questions that will lead them to more complex analyses, and possibly deepen their reading of text and journals. Obviously, the flexibility of the medium itself also allows those of you with prior experience either of accessing data or complex analysis to find your own route and use of the material.

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