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Event starts: Thursday 9 April

An applied introduction, providing a theoretical overview to discourse analysis using a variety of textual data, introducing you to critical methods for analysing and interrogating discourses. 

Event starts: Thursday 16 April

Collecting survey data can be expensive and time-consuming; therefore it is appropriate to ensure that usable and reliable data are collected. This course is designed to prepare participants to build hard copy or internet surveys to meet a variety of needs.

Event starts: Friday 8 May

This masterclass offers a step-by-step, interactive introduction to R and RStudio for participants with no experience with these software packages.

Event starts: Thursday 21 May

How to set up, conduct and export your data for a web based survey in the freely available Limesurvey web survey software system.

Event starts: Wednesday 3 June

This is a practical masterclass is aimed at researchers with some qualitative writing experience who are looking to extend their knowledge and learn some practical tips for managing the process more efficiently. 

Event starts: Monday 29 June

This course provides an overview of Longitudinal Data Analysis. As well as the statistical theory, an overview of the many applications and capabilities of LDA is given.

Event starts: Monday 29 June

Event starts: Monday 29 June

Whether you're looking to add AI to your research toolkit or just curious about what deep learning can do, this masterclass will give you the foundation you need to start experimenting with confidence.

Event starts: Monday 29 June

This course aims to provide you with the understanding and experience to undertake a basic research project in the social or health sciences using Stata as the statistical tool.

Event starts: Monday 29 June

This course is designed to cover the fundamental principles of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and introduce the AMOS and/or Mplus software packages to estimate structural equation models.

Event starts: Monday 29 June

Event starts: Monday 29 June

This is an introductory unit for individuals with limited or no previous experience with qualitative traditions or techniques of inquiry.

Event starts: Monday 6 July

Designed for mixed methods and qualitative researchers, this course covers data collection and research design, visualisation and basic analytic methods used in social network research.

Event starts: Monday 6 July

A course designed for participants who have undertaken a qualitative study in their work or study and would like to build their theoretical knowledge and applied skill base in qualitative research.

Event starts: Monday 6 July

The focus of this course is on learning advanced statistical methods using R.

Event starts: Monday 6 July

This intermediate course will help you choose from a range of statistical procedures to analyse your data. It aims to provide participants with an ability to understand, run and interpret these procedures.   

Event starts: Monday 6 July

This course is designed as an advanced course in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) for existing AMOS and/or Mplus users. 

Event starts: Monday 6 July

An introductory unit in statistical methods with the emphasis on statistical techniques applicable to the social sciences, although these introductory techniques are also relevant to the health sciences.

Event starts: Monday 20 July

Taught by an instructor with real-world experience as a campaign consultant, survey researcher and data scientist, this masterclass will focus on teaching you about survey design.

Event starts: Thursday 6 August

From conversations to focus groups, this two-day intensive will help professionals, researchers and evaluators create careful and impactful interviews.

Event starts: Wednesday 19 August

A one-day, hands-on, advanced qualitative interviewing workshop where you will learn how to acquire high-quality, multi-dimensional data that can meaningfully impact evidence-informed decisions.

Event starts: Tuesday 1 September

A practical, hands-on approach to the key writing challenges qualitative PhD researchers face at every stage of the journey, from crafting a coherent methodology chapter to writing up qualitative data in a way that does justice to your findings. 

Event starts: Wednesday 9 September

This master-class has two objectives – to teach the design principles required to make plots that really have an impact on the reader, and to teach the practical skills required to create these plots within the R software package.

Event starts: Monday 21 September

An applied comprehensive understanding of focus group design and moderation, establishing the theory and methods of focus group research and offering techniques for managing challenging groups.

Event starts: Monday 21 September

Designed for the applied users of R, this master-class will show you how to access spatial data from a number of sources, match this with geographic shape files, analyse spatial patterns, link these data to information from surveys, and create interactive maps to highlight important findings.

Event starts: Tuesday 29 September

Guidance for early career researchers on how to use the latest constructionist approaches, which treat our data as instances of complex behaviours and hence complementary to quantitative research.

Event starts: Friday 2 October

An introduction to supervised machine learning techniques for data science, providing an interactive step-by-step guide to running some of the standard statistical regression and classification machine learning models that every data scientist should know. 

Event starts: Wednesday 14 October

This master-class introduces NVivo, and takes researchers through the process of sorting and organising literature and notes from readings in a systematic way. 

Event starts: Tuesday 20 October

The workshop aims to provide researchers with essential skills in using the NVivo software. The focus is on developing the essentials skills from NVivo through hands-on experience.

Event starts: Friday 6 November

A step-by-step, interactive introduction to Python for participants with no experience with this software package. 

Event starts: Thursday 19 November

We will explore the key features and different types of mixed method design; critically analyse the benefits and challenges associated with the design and implementation of each design type; and the analysis and write-up of mixed method studies.

Event starts: Wednesday 25 November

ACSPRI is pleased to host the 10th Biennial Social Science Methodology conference, in conjunction with the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference. The ACSPRI conference is multi-disciplinary and brings together researchers and methodologists from a range of environments and contexts. By running the ACSPRI and ASNAC in conjunction in 2026, all attendees will benefit from being able to share their methodology knowledge across domains. SNA related proposals will be reviewed by ASNAC representatives.

Details of the conference are available on the conference website