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March 2008
Events:
Date: 5 March 2008
Title: Course: Survey Design and Sample
Location: Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Info: This
course is aimed at all who need to design surveys. As well as being open to
delegates from outside the University
of Hertfordshire , this
course also forms part of the training available to research students at the
University along with our Getting Started with Stats, Comparing Groups and
Relationships in Data courses.
It is assumed that delegates on this course will have a knowledge of
probability, the Normal distribution and hypothesis testing. Those whose
experience of these topics is some time in the past should find sufficient
reminders given to enable them to participate fully.
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1861&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 6 March 2008
Title: SPSS I
Location: The Centre for Applied Statistics
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://psc.maths.lancs.ac.uk/casBooking/courses/register/17/
Date: 7 March 2008
Title: Mapping and using teacher education
Location: Roehampton University , London
Info: In 2006, the Teacher Education Group (TEG) started work on an exercise to map UK research on teacher education published between 2000 and 2006. These materials are being developed as part of TLRP’s research capacity building work. TEG has now concluded the initial mapping exercise and the results are to be made publicly available. In order to launch the resource, two conferences will be held, in Scotland and England respectively. The conferences are being supported by ESCalate. This is the second of two conferences, the first can be found at http://escalate.ac.uk/4102 The purposes of the conferences are: * To launch the TEG resource * To review the state of research in teacher education in the UK * To promote the use and development of the TEG resource among the teacher education community * To guide its further refinement as an e-resource within the TLRP framework * To consider how the resource may be maintained and the possibilities for expansion and further development.
URL: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/conferencesfull.pl?id=9870
Date: 6-7 March 2008
Title: Panel/Longitudinal Data Analysis
Location: UCL Economics Department, London
Info: The panel/longitudinal data analysis course covers most of the traditional panel data estimation techniques for micro panels in which the number of individuals (or firms etc.) is large, but the number of time periods is quite small. It focuses on the treatment of unobserved individual specific heterogeneity and discusses the difference between random and fixed effects model specifications.
Attention is given to the estimation of models with explanatory variables that are not strictly exogenous. This means that there can be feedback from the process to be explained to the explanatory variables (for example outputs and inputs in a production function, the effect of previous cigarette consumption on current consumption), or simultaneous determination. In these cases models in first differences can be estimated with instrumental variables estimation techniques. For non-linear count data models the treatment of unobserved heterogeneity is less straightforward. Various ways of dealing with it will be discussed with special focus on how to interpret the results.
The course is a mixture of lectures and applied sessions. Course participants will apply the various techniques using real data on their computers. Software applications used are Stata and PcGive, and no prior knowledge of these is assumed. It is assumed that participants have a basic knowledge of econometrics, to a similar level to that taught in the Introductory Microeconometrics course.
URL: http://cemmap.ifs.org.uk/courses.php?event_id=252
Date: 10 March 2008
Title: Handling Nonresponse in Sample Surveys (Few places remaining)
Location: University of Southampton
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1833&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 11 March 2008
Title: Social Network Analysis: the Quantitative – Qualitative Interface
Location: University of Manchester
Info: This
seminar is part of a series which is intended to promote the growing practice
of social network analysis in British social science and to contribute to the
development of this distinctive and important research methodology.
This seminar will engage with current attempts to re-energise the qualitative
aspect and possibilities of network analysis, without abandoning the
considerable quantitative developments of the last decade. Both archival and
ethnographical sources and forms of data will be discussed.
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1794
Date: 11 March 2008
Title: Sampling Design
Location: The Centre for Applied Statistics
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://psc.maths.lancs.ac.uk/casBooking/courses/register/10/
Date: 12 March 2008
Title: Introduction to systematic reviews
Location: Queens University , Belfast
Info: Introductory
The course will be of interest to policy-makers, practitioners, managers and
researchers.
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1846&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 12 March 2008
Title: FormuCommunicating research to policy and practice
Location: London
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1902&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 12 March 2008
Title: Introduction to Longitudinal Data Analysis
Location: Humanities Bridgeford Street
Info: Longitudinal studies are key policy and research tools and skills in their analysis are much in demand. This is an intermediate level course for those without the statistical and research background necessary for the advanced 3-day Longitudinal Data Analysis course. The course aims to give participants confidence in the use of concepts and practical data analysis using SPSS. The use of regression models will be extended to continuous longitudinal data, and log-linear modelling will be thoroughly introduced for the analysis of categorical repeated measures. Theory will be implemented in extended practicals.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 13 March 2008
Title: Multi Level Models
Location: The Centre for Applied Statistics
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://psc.maths.lancs.ac.uk/casBooking/courses/register/19/
Date: 13 March 2008
Title: Structural Equation Modelling
Location: Lancaster University
Info: Follow the URL for more Info
URL: http://psc.maths.lancs.ac.uk/shortCourses/
Date: 17-19 March 2008
Title: Longitudinal Data Analysis
Location: CCSR
Info: This course will provide a practical overview of the main classes of methods including population average and random effects models. Datasets examined include longitudinal data from clinical trials, a national cohort study, a multi-phase observational study with highly selective attrition and binary event data on mobility. The emphasis is on model building, the assumptions being made and their empirical and theoretical plausibility. Normal, discrete and non-parametric maximum likelihood random effects are considered enabling the fitting of models with unobserved heterogeneity, growth curves and trajectory classes.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/external/2007-2008/details.html#Longitudinal_Data_Analysis
Date: 18 March 2008
Title: Case Based Methods: Classifying and Comparing
Location: Durham University
Info: Residential for up to 1 week. Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1899&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 18 March 2008
Title: Case Based Methods: Classifying and Comparing
Location: Durham University
Info: Residential for up to 1 week. See the URL
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/events/2008/20080318/index.php
Date: 19 March 2008
Title: ATLAS.ti introductory workshop (free to full-time students)
Location: University of Surrey
Info: see the URL
URL: http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/events.htm
Date: 31 March 2008
Title: Starting SPSS
Location: CCSR
Info: This course provides a 1 day introduction to SPSS. The day covers:
· an introduction to the SPSS environment using the Windows interface
· procedures for producing simple descriptive statistics for all or subsets of your cases
· procedures for producing new variables from your raw data
· graphics No previous experience of data analysis is assumed, however participants should be familiar with working in the Windows environment.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 31 March 2008
Title: Essentials of Survey Design and Implementation
Location: City University , London
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1834&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 2 April 2008
Title: Introduction to Data Analysis Part I
Location: CCSR
Info: The course will provide an introduction to the basic approaches to exploratory data analysis using the Labour Force Survey. Participants are expected to have a basic familiarity with SPSS, but no prior knowledge of statistics is assumed. The course focuses on hands-on learning through practical exercises, and covers the following: ways of exploring variable distributions using tables and charts; techniques for recoding and deriving new variables, use of cross-tabulation (including use of control variables) to explore the relationship between variables, tests of association. The focus in this course is on the analysis of categorical data
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 3 April 2008
Title: Introduction to Data Analysis Part I
Location: CCSR
Info: This course builds on Introduction to Data Analysis (Part 1) and has an emphasis on understanding of continuous or scale data. The course covers appropriate descriptive statistics and techniques for looking at relationships between variables (correlation) and the concept of statistical modelling using regression is also explored.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 8 April 2008
Title: Longitudinal Data Analysis
Location: University of Manchester
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1777&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 8 April 2008
Title: Three researchers talk Methodology and Practice
Location: University of Surrey
Info: Free seminar. Follow URL for further information
URL: http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/events.htm
Date: 9 April 2008
Title: Regression Methods for Survey Data
Location: University of Cardiff , Wales
Info: This course focuses on the design and implementation of quantitative social surveys (excluding the design of questionnaires which is covered in a separate course). Topics include project management, quality, ethical and reporting issues; guidelines for understanding interviewer vs. self-completion implementation concerns; ways to minimise nonresponse before it happens; probability vs. non-probability sampling designs; calculation of the necessary sample size; introduction to sampling error, non-sampling error, and weighting procedures; principles of data coding and processing, and an introduction to the CASS Question Bank.
URL: http://www.s3ri.soton.ac.uk/cass/showcourse.php?id=54
Date: 15 April 2008
Title: Structural Equation Models for Longitudinal Data (Few places remaining)
Location: ESRC Training Centre, University of Manchester
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1914&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 16 April 2008
Title: Advancing the use of visual methods in research on children’s cultures
Location: Cardiff
Info: For further information please follow URL.
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1919&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 18 April 2008
Title: Real Life Methods Training Workshop: Analysing Real Life Mixed Methods
Location: Open University, Milton Keynes
Info: This workshop will outline and explore different approaches to analysing data generated using 'real life methods', by which we mean methods that try to get close to people's lived experience and to resonate with 'real life'. Such data are often, although not always, qualitative and unstructured in nature, and can take a range of forms including textual, auditory, observational and visual.
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1838&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 23 April 2008
Title: Evaluating Complex Social Interventions: Randomised Controlled Trials and Realistic Evaluation
Location: Cardiff University
Info: For further information please follow URL
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1875&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 23 April 2008
Title: Moderating focus groups
Location: London
Info: Follow URL for further information
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1907&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 23-25 April 2008
Title: Policy Evaluation Methods
Location: UCL Economics Department, London
Info: How can one evaluate whether a government labour market programme such as the New Deal, or a subsidy to education such as the EMA is actually working? This course deals with the econometric and statistical tools that have been developed to estimate the causal impact on one or more outcomes of interest of any generic 'intervention' in the presence of selection decisions by agents - from government programmes, policies or reforms, to the returns to education, the impact of unionism on wages, or of migration on the labour market. After highlighting the 'evaluation problem' and the challenges it poses to the analyst, we focus on the empirical methods to solve it.
For each of these approaches, we give the basic intuition, discuss the assumptions needed for its validity, highlight the question it answers, discuss its strengths and weaknesses drawing from example applications in the literature and implement it 'hands-on' in practical Stata sessions.
URL: http://cemmap.ifs.org.uk/courses.php?event_id=259
Date: 28 April 2008
Title: Multiple Regression
Location: CCSR
Info: This one-day course covers the way in which models may be fitted to predict an interval response variable from several binary and interval explanatory variables. The methods are applied to socio-economic data. Practical exercises will be given and the participant will learn how to use SPSS to carry out a multiple regression analysis and interpret the results, as well as checking the assumptions that are made when a multiple regression analysis is carried out. Other topics covered include: interactions, transformations, quadratic relationships, dummy variables.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 30 April 2008
Title: Logistic Regression
Location: CCSR
Info: This one-day course examines the fitting of models to predict a binary response variable from a mixture of binary and interval explanatory variables. The approach is illustrated using examples from a social science perspective, including cases where logistic regression models are used as a means of analysing tabular data where one of the dimensions of the table is a two-category outcome variable. The participant will also learn how to use SPSS to fit a logistic regression model, and how to interpret the results of an SPSS analysis.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 30 April 2008
Title: Using new technologies in Qualitative Research
Location: Cardiff University
Info: This workshop will provide hands-on practical experiences in using different technologies and equipment for the collection of qualitative data. Primarily focussed on the collection of visual and audio data this workshop will consider a variety of different aspects of the research process, including the capture, archiving, storage, sharing and cost of using different equipment. Although the focus of the workshop is on the collection of qualitative data some attention will be given to the use of new technology in analysing and representing qualitative data.
URL: http://www.ncrm.ac.uk/training/?action=event_details&id=1798&backloc=more_events&estab=&filter=
Date: 1 May 2008
Title: Multimodal Qualitative Research
Location: Cardiff University
Info: This is a two-day workshop that will encompass the collection and analysis of multiple modes of qualitative research data. Primarily based on the combined use of textual, visual and audio data this workshop will give participants practical insights in to the advantages and disadvantages of different modes of qualitative data. Participants will have the opportunity to collect and analyse their own multi-modal qualitative data. The workshop will give participants the opportunity to experiment with different kinds of qualitative data and to consider how they might be combined, both practically and theoretically. The workshop will also consider the dissemination of multi-modal qualitative data, by presenting and discussing how this can be done.
URL: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/qualiti/Workshops/workshops08.html#
Date: 7 May 2008
Title: MAXQDA 2007 introductory workshop
Location: University of Surrey
Info: (free to full-time students), follow the URL for info
URL: http://caqdas.soc.surrey.ac.uk/events.htm
Date: 12 May 2008
Title: Data Reduction and Classification
Location: CCSR
Info: This one-day course discusses various methods of data reduction, focusing on the use of principal components analysis (PCA). SPSS is used to apply PCA to UK Census ward data to look for explanatory factors related to deprivation. Although factor analysis is also discussed briefly in the data reduction part of the course, the focus is on the use of data reduction methods to construct a deprivation score. We also consider data classification focusing on the theory and application of cluster analysis. We look at an example based on UK Census data and use SPSS to carry out a cluster analysis. Other related multivariate techniques for data reduction and classification will also be briefly outlined.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 13 May 2008
Title: Multilevel Modelling
Location: CCSR
Info: This one-day course begins with a description of some examples where multilevel models are useful in statistical analysis and some examples of multilevel populations. We then cover the basic theory of multilevel models and a very brief introduction to software that has been written specifically for fitting multilevel models: MLwiN. No prior knowledge of multilevel modelling is assumed. Participants will get some experience of using MLwiN software.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 19 May 2008
Title: Demographic Concepts and Methods
Location: CCSR
Info: A course delivered over two consecutive days aimed at those with no demographic training. The focus will be on basic components of demographic change through measures and data sources to calculate and illustrate population structure, fertility, mortality and migration. The calculation of age-sex standardisation ratios will be included in the course.
URL: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/methods/diary/
Date: 16 June 2008
Title: 2nd International Pedagogical Research in Higher Education (PRHE)
Location: Liverpool Hope University , Liverpool
Info: The overall theme is Curriculum Change for Learning, including * Innovating the curriculum for lifelong learning * Developing curriculum for the 21st century * Implementing curriculum change in a traditional context * Students’ and lecturers’ expectations of the curriculum * Curriculum change from the subject perspective * A scholarship of learning and teaching approach to the curriculum
URL: http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/conferencesfull.pl?id=9936
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