On-Site
Summer schools
Available on request
Regular fees: 300 - 600 GBP
£300 for students. £600 for staff working for academic institutions, Research Councils and other recognised research institutions, registered charity organisations and the public sector. £900 for all other participants. All fees include event materials and morning and afternoon refreshments but lunch is not provided. Fees do not include travel and accommodation costs. In the event of cancellation by the delegate a full refund of the course fee is available up to two weeks prior to the course. NO refunds are available after this date. If it is no longer possible to run a course due to circumstances beyond its control, NCRM reserves the right to cancel the course at its sole discretion at any time prior to the event. In this event every effort will be made to reschedule the course. If this is not possible or the new date is inconvenient a full refund of the course fee will be given. NCRM shall not be liable for any costs, losses or expenses that may be incurred as a result of its cancellation of a course, including but not limited to any travel or accommodation costs.
Jacqui Thorp
Date: 01/07/2024 - 05/07/2024
Organised by: NCRM, University of Southampton and C-BEAR, University of Southampton
Presenters: Dr Tereza Capelos, Dr Paul Conway, Dr João Ferreira, Dr Marco Meloni, Dr Jane Parry, Dr Gerhard Reiner, Dr Jana Sadeh and Dr Paolo Spada
Level: Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact: Jacqui Thorp
Training and Capacity Building Coordinator, National Centre for Research Methods, University of Southampton
Email: jmh6@soton.ac.uk
This five-day workshop introduces participants to the theory and practice of experimental methods in Social Sciences. It delivers an overview of prevalent approaches, specifically lab, field, and survey experiments, providing a solid introduction to experimental methodology and the practical skills to design, implement, analyse, and present experiments.
The target audience of the course are professionals and researchers, especially those approaching experimental methods for the first time. The course does not require any previous knowledge of experimental design or statistics and is open to participants with basic secondary school knowledge of mathematics. Prospective participants with some prior knowledge of experimental methods that would like to deepen their knowledge and skills on one specific approach (lab, field, or survey), can selectively sign up for sessions across the three days covering those approaches.
The workshop objective is to teach participants to become critical readers of the experimental literature, and to equip them with the ability to design, implement, analyse, and report their first experiment.
The workshop will also briefly overview service providers for marketing experiments (Facebook, Google), access panels and online marketplaces (Lucid, MTurk, Prolific, etc.), and survey providers that support survey experiments (Yougov, Ipsos etc.).
The workshop will be taught by an interdisciplinary team of faculty members of the Centre of Behavioural Experimental and Action Research (C-BEAR), leveraging examples from Politics, Economics, Business and Psychology.
The workshop will address the responsible conduct of research during experimental studies, covering research ethics, pre-registration, and debriefing practices for deceptive research designs.
Highfield Campus
SO17 1BJ Southampton , United Kingdom
