Social Research Methods Training

As a member of the North West Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership, engage@liverpool offers a range of specialised methods and methodology training modules in social science research.

These short five-credit modules provide postgraduate students and researchers with opportunities to engage in intensive research methods training. For more information and to register, email Leah Linton at lintonl@liverpool.ac.uk.


SOCI514 Using Surveys and Statistics to Understand Social Attitudes (April 2018)

SOCI515 Using Foucault's Methods (April 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI516 Focus Groups (February 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI517 Critical Discourse Analysis (April 2018)

SOCI518 Visual Data, Visual Analysis (April 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI519 Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (March 2018)

SOCI520 Participatory Action Research (February 2018)

SOCI526 Interviewing (February 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI527 Doing Ethical Research (March 2018)

SOCI529 Researching Private Companies (March 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI532 Using Freedom of Information Requests in Research (February/May 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI533 Observation (February 2018) FULLY BOOKED

SOCI534 Spatial Analysis: Mapping Techniques in Social Research (April/May 2018)

SOCI571 Doing Ethical Research (October 2017)

HIST602 Oral History: Theory and Method (November 2017)


In addition to the short courses above are semester-long 15-credit modules in Quantitative Research Methods Training.

SOCI508 Understanding Society Using Quantitative Methods (September-December 2017) REGISTRATION CLOSED

ENVS3/563 Geographic Data Science (September-December 2017) REGISTRATION CLOSED

ENVS450 Social Survey Analysis (September-December 2017) REGISTRATION CLOSED