2025 Methods@Manchester Summer School
From 30 June, for one week, 糖心Vlog官方 will be buzzing with visitors as researchers and PGRs from across the world visit us to harness their skills and imaginations in social science and humanities research methods.
Methods@Manchester鈥檚 popular Summer School is back for another year, with one week of courses in the week commencing 30 June.
Featuring a range of methods courses for both qualitative and quantitative researchers, the Summer School provides the opportunity for researchers to get together, learn or develop new social science and humanities methods skills while meeting and networking with their peers.
I鈥檝e learned so much in five days, and I鈥檓 so excited to apply my new skills to my research.
This year we are pleased to offer seven courses including training in Nvivo software, Qualitative Interviewing and Longitudinal Data Analysis. The courses themselves allow us to showcase the considerable expertise we have in the Faculty of Humanities in a range of methodological areas, providing opportunities for attendees to receive support from leading experts.
For example, are offering a team-taught course focused on Creative Approaches to Qualitative Research. Throughout this short course members of the Centre will support attendees in learning about their specific areas of expertise in innovative and creative methodological approaches.
is a leading centre in the development and application of social network analysis techniques and this year offers a course in Mixed Methods in Social Network Analysis. This course will focus on personal networks and uses qualitative methods combined with statistical modelling.
The team will run a course focused on Digital Methods. It will introduce state-of-the-art approaches (visual methods, geospatial methods, text mining, data visualisation, creative AI methods and sensing methods) and attendees can apply them to create, analyse, and question data.
And new for this year, experts within the are offering a course in AI Driven Analytics, providing the opportunity for participants to explore cutting-edge methods ranging from descriptive and predictive to prescriptive analytics.
Top-notch level of engagement and interaction.
And it鈥檚 not just about the courses, this year as well as our usual welcome event in a local brewery, attendees will be treated to a City Centre walking tour, providing a chance to learn about Manchester鈥檚 rich history while getting to know participants across the seven courses.
The summer school surpassed my expectations in every way. I learned so much which will be directly relevant to my future research and career generally. Really fantastic!!!!
Our Summer School fee structure features a reduced price for PGRs and those attending from the charity or community sector. We also offer the opportunity for those entitled to this reduced fee, yet without the necessary funding, to apply for a further reduction via our bursary scheme.
You can see the full range of 2025 Summer School courses and further details on the and don鈥檛 hesitate to contact methods@manchester.ac.uk if you have any questions.