Past events

Current events can be found here.

The materials related to past workshops can be found on the Centre for Computational Social Science ELE page (note: requires a valid University of Exeter login).

When	Description	Location	Add to your calendar
3 - 4 June 2024	Introduction to R-Studio	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
15 May 2024	Understanding social group memberships from short texts	Clayden Meeting Room / Online	Add event
8 May 2024	The Elections Centre: Spotlight on the local elections 2024	Reed Hall	Add event
24 - 25 April 2024	Web-scraping with Python and Introduction to text data with Python	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
22 - 23 April 2024	Introduction to Python and Python for Data Analysis	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
24 January 2024	Exeter Q-Step Relaunch and Networking Event	XFi	Add event
29 November 2023	Utilising Textual Data in Crime Analysis: Insights from the Sex Market and Public Reactions to Crime on Twitter	Knightley Boardroom	Add event
8 November 2023	Maps in Stata	Online	Add event
29 - 30 June 2023	NCRM Mixed Methods Workshop	TBC	Add event
17 - 27 April 2023	NCRM 2nd Annual Exeter Spring Computational Communication Science School	TBC	Add event
8 February 2023	Institutional Ethnography: A Feminist Approach to Analysing Institutions Using Texts	Queens Building LT4.2	Add event
28 November 2022	Q-Step Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar: Michele Scotto Di Vettimo	Clayden Meeting Room	Add event
22 November 2022	Q-Step Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar: Simge Andi & Travis Coan	Clayden Meeting Room	Add event
16 November 2022	Q-Step Work in Progress (WIP) Seminar: Alexey Bessudnov	Clayden Meeting Room	Add event
2 November 2022	Decolonising Quantitative Teaching	Knightley Boardroom	Add event
5 October 2022	Suffrage, Turnout and the Household: The Case of Early Women Voters in Sweden	Knightley	Add event
6 - 14 April 2022	NCRM UoE Computational Communication Methods Spring School - APPLY NOW		Add event
11 March 2022	'Group identities and strategic discrimination' presented by Dr Dominik Duell, University of Innsbruck	Online	Add event
3 March 2022	'The 4D Project: a holistic response to climate misinformation' presented by John Cook, Monash University	Online	Add event
24 February 2022	'Microtargeting: Reverse engineering of an ethical conundrum' presented by Prof Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol)	Online	Add event
23 November 2021	South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP): Using the Understanding Society study for longitudinal research	Online	Add event
23 November 2021	Exeter Q-Step/NCRM Introduction to Nvivo for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Laboratory, Q-Step Centre, University of Exeter, Clayden Building, Streatham Rise, EXETER EX4 4PE	Add event
25 - 29 October 2021	NCRM Research Methods Festival: 25-29 October 2021	Online	Add event
7 July 2021	South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP): Secondary analysis of cross-national, comparative survey data webinar	Online	Add event
14 June 2021	University of Exeter Workshop on Media and UK Elections	Online	Add event
2 June 2021	Women Candidates Use More Positive Language than Men Candidates in Political Campaigns	Online	Add event
26 May 2021	Negativity in Politicians' Communication during Campaign and Regular Times	Online	Add event
19 May 2021	A Cross-National Analysis of the Effect of Parties' Characteristics on Affective Polarization and Interpersonal Trust	Online	Add event
12 May 2021	When (not) to trust the overlap in confidence intervals: A practical guide	Online	Add event
11 November 2020	Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach	Online	Add event
22 October 2020	US Political Culture and the Presidential Election Seminar (with the Exeter Q-Step Centre): Chryl Laird (Bowdoin), ‘Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behaviour’	Online Event	Add event
9 September 2020	Establishment Relations and Fatherhood Wage Premiums	Online	Add event
1 July 2020	Data Analysis and visualisation with Python	Online	Add event
24 June 2020	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists	Online	Add event
3 June 2020	Longitudinal Data Analysis	Online	Add event
15 May 2020	An Introduction to Open-Source Intelligence and its practical applications - ONLINE Workshop	Online	Add event
12 May 2020	Bayesian analysis with JAGS/Topics in Bayesian analysis - ONLINE Workshop	Online	Add event
11 May 2020	Introduction to Bayesian analysis - ONLINE Workshop	Online	Add event
18 March 2020	CANCELLED: Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach	Washington Singer 234	Add event
10 March 2020	CANCELLED - Hope and Despair: Presidents, Prime Ministers, Populists, Polarization and Mass Democratic Accountability in Challenging Times	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
4 March 2020	Data Analysis with R for Social Scientists	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
7 February 2020	Geographical and Place-based dependence in multilevel models	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
5 February 2020	Introduction to GIS	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
30 January 2020	Analysing ambiguity: understanding and managing complexity in the professional environment	Digital Humanities Laboratory	Add event
15 January 2020	Introduction to R for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
3 December 2019	Introduction to LaTex	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
22 November 2019	Data Analysis & Q-Step Alumni Careers Q&A Discussion	Streatham Court 0.28	Add event
20 November 2019	Who do we think you are? Detecting salient identities in text	Building:One Syndicate Room B	Add event
8 November 2019	The case against perfection in the mean: Why it is time for an individualised approach to evidence for education	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
6 November 2019	Data Analysis and visualisation with Python for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
6 November 2019	Worlds Colliding: Examining the social networks and linguistic patterns of a merging organization through email	Forum Seminar Room 05	Add event
29 October 2019	When politics and diplomacy collide; the conflict spiral in the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962	XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre	Add event
2 October 2019	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
9 - 13 September 2019	Q-estival 2019: People, Data and Society	Various Locations (Knightley & Clayden)	Add event
25 July 2019	Understanding women's mental health across the lifecourse	Digital Humanities Laboratory	Add event
24 June 2019	Institute of Coding Summer School 2019 at the University of Exeter	Clayden, EX4 4PE	Add event
5 June 2019	CANCELLED: Introduction to SQL for Data Science	N/A	Add event
17 April 2019	Detecting trolls on Reddit: Introduction to Computational Text Analysis and Supervised Machine Learning in R	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
20 March 2019	Longitudinal Data Analysis for Social Scientists	Washington Singer Labs 220	Add event
14 March 2019	Are you listening? Crisis Negotiation Skills with Deborah Goodwin OBE	Clayden Computational Lab	Add event
13 March 2019	Seminar Series - “Can genetics tell us anything about voting patterns, including Brexit?”	Queens Building LT6.2	Add event
6 March 2019	Data Analysis with R for Social Scientists	Hatherly Labs B12	Add event
5 March 2019	Gender, Sexual Orientation and Stereotypes: Challenges for Lesbian and Gay Candidates	Queens 1H	Add event
27 February 2019	Seminar Series - “Measuring global gender inequality indicators using large-scale online advertising data”	Forum Seminar Room 04	Add event
13 February 2019	Seminar Series - 'Religious decline in the West: Unravelling age, period and cohort effects'	Forum Seminar Room 04	Add event
6 February 2019	Introduction to Discourse Network Analysis (DNA)	Clayden Computational Lab, EX4 4PE	Add event
23 January 2019	Network Analysis for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Lab, EX4 4PE	Add event
9 January 2019	Introduction to R for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Lab, EX4 4PE	Add event
5 December 2018	Sentiment Analysis/Career as a Data Scientist	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
4 December 2018	Seminar Series - 'From riot police to tweets: How world leaders use social media during contentious politics'	Forum Seminar Room 09	Add event
14 November 2018	Seminar Series - 'Connected networks, wellbeing and the power of representation: Qualitative and quantitative evidence from Facebook and social network data'	Forum Seminar Room 04	Add event
7 November 2018	Data Analysis with Python for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Lab, EX4 4PE	Add event
15 October 2018	The Tyranny of Distance: Assessing and Explaining the Apparent Decline in U.S. Military Performance	Forum Seminar Room 01	Add event
10 October 2018	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists	EX4 4PE	Add event
3 October 2018	Introduction to Python for Social Scientists	Clayden Computational Social Science Lab EX4 4PE	Add event
2 July - 10 August 2018	The Institute of Coding Summer School at the University of Exeter	EX44PE	Add event
30 May 2018	What Can Genetics Tell Us About Education?	EMS Building S11	Add event
16 May 2018	The Social Stratification of Educational Enjoyment	EMS Building S11	Add event
2 May 2018	Avoiding Bias When Estimating the Consistency and Stability of Value-Added School Effects.	Washington Singer 234	Add event
29 March 2018	Q-Step: Multilevel Modelling	Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room A	Add event
8 March 2018	Q-Step: Text Analysis - Python	Building:One Syndicate Room B	Add event
6 March 2018	Q-Step : Agent-based modeling	Old Library Research Seminar Room A/B20	Add event
27 February 2018	Q-Step : Network Analysis	Old Library Research Seminar Room A/B20	Add event
20 February 2018	Q-Step: Longitudinal Data Analysis	Old Library PC Cluster (Level -1)	Add event
20 February 2018	Technology and Electoral Research: Perspectives from Industry and Academia	The Nuffield Foundation. 28 Bedford Square, Fitzrovia, London WC1B 3JS	Add event
6 February 2018	Q-Step: Data Analysis - Python	Old Library Research Seminar Room A/B20	Add event
30 January 2018	Q-Step : Designing Experiments	Old Library Research Seminar Room A/B20 with Alexey Bessudnov	Add event
7 December 2017	Q-Step: Collecting Social Media Data	Peter Chalk Centre 1.3	Add event
30 November 2017	Q-Step : Designing Experiments	Peter Chalk Centre 2.4	Add event
20 November 2017	Q-Step: Intro to Python	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
9 November 2017	Q-Step: Data visualisation in R	Peter Chalk Centre 1.4	Add event
26 October 2017	Q-Step: Data management in R	Peter Chalk Centre 1.3	Add event
30 June 2017	Collecting and Analysing Social Media Data	Building:One Matrix Lecture Theatre	Add event
16 May 2017	Trump's 2016 Victory: Rethinking Theories of Ad Persuasion	Amory A239C	Add event
3 March 2017	Network Analysis	Queens Building M	Add event
24 February 2017	Analysing Text as Data	Queens Building M	Add event
17 February 2017	Data Visualisation in R	Queens Building M	Add event
10 February 2017	Presenting and Visualising Regression Results	Queens Building M	Add event
3 February 2017	Data Analysis in R	Queens Building M	Add event
20 January 2017	Introduction to R	Queens Building M	Add event
9 December 2016	Qualtrics surveys and survey experiments	Queens 24/7 Cluster Room M	Add event
8 June 2016	Stephen Greasley and Gabriel Katz: "Estimating the Link between Public Scrutiny and Share Prices"	Amory A239AB	Add event
2 June 2016	Sequence Analysis — Alexey Bessudnov	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
25 May 2016	Joost van Spanje (VU Amsterdam) "On parrots and pariah: Legal, media and political reactions to anti-immigration parties in Western Europe"	Building:One Syndicate Room C	Add event
18 May 2016	Catarina Thomson: Title TBC - draft paper discussion	Amory B143	Add event
11 May 2016	Nicole Bolleyer, Nils Bormann and Felix von Nostitz: "Conflict and Conflict Regulation in Political Parties"	Amory B143	Add event
22 March 2016	Presenting and Visualising Regression Results — Nils-Christian Bormann	Queens Building M	Add event
2 March 2016	Patricia Correa Vila and Juan Rodriguez-Teruel: "Comparing Incentives and Party Activism in US and Europe: PSOE, PP and the California Democratic Party"	Amory B308	Add event
24 February 2016	Alexey Bessudnov, Susan Banducci and Dan Stevens: "Childbirths and Political Interest"	Amory B308	Add event
17 February 2016	John Maloney (Economics): "Are Marginals Different?"	Amory B143	Add event
12 February 2016	Data Analysis in R — Iulia Cioroianu	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
3 February 2016	Katya Kolpinskaya (Q-Step, Politics): "Facets of substantive minority representation in Britain"	Amory B218	Add event
22 January 2016	Introduction to Programming in R — Iulia Cioroianu	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
9 December 2015	Claudia Zucca (Q-Step, Marie Curie fellow): "Measuring Party Competition through Network Modelling"	Amory B310	Add event
8 December 2015	Analysing Text as Data — Ekaterina Kolpinskaya	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
2 December 2015	Travis Coan (Q-Step, Politics): "Tracing the Narrative of Hate in the Rising Greek Far-Right"	Amory B142	Add event
1 December 2015	Network Analysis — Lorien Jasny	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
11 November 2015	SPSS Intermediate — Katharine Boyd	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
4 November 2015	SPSS Beginners — Katharine Boyd	Forum Exploration Lab 1	Add event
4 November 2015	Nicole Bolleyer and Raimondas Ibenskas (Politics): "New Party Survival in Advanced Democracies 1968-2013"	Amory B142	Add event
28 October 2015	Nils-Christian Bormann, HASS Fellow Politics ‘Internal Conflict Diffusion: Revisiting the Conflict Trap’ (an R&R article) Followed by CEMaP Annual Meeting 2-3pm (same room)	Amory B308	Add event
20 October 2015	How to Read an Empirical Paper — Gabriel Katz-Wisel	Old Library 134	Add event
14 October 2015	Amy McKay (Politics): "Congruence Among the Policy Agendas of Citizens, Interest Groups, and Governments"	Amory B308	Add event
30 September 2015	Gabriel Katz and Katya Kolpinskaya (Politics): "The effect of post-electoral communication frames on attitudes towards government"	Amory B308	Add event
16 September 2015	Iulia Cioroianu (Politics): "Studying the 2015 Elections Using Automated Methods for Visual Content Analysis"	Amory B315	Add event