Workshops

This session will briefly introduce the different areas (descriptive, inferential) and vocabulary related to statistics. By the end of the session you will be able to:

• Demonstrate a useful understanding of statistical vocabulary.
• Recognise when it is appropriate to use statistics.
• Describe the different areas of statistics.
• Evaluate when the different areas of statistics are relevant.

This workshop is designed to assist students who have a set of collected data and are unsure where to begin. We will briefly define the different areas and types of statistics before discussing how to approach a dataset. We will focus on two main points - understanding the data you have and defining what you want you want to investigate. We will use a mock dataset to put this knowledge into context. By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Recognise when it is appropriate to use different areas of statistics.
• Demonstrate some practical skills that can be applied to any dataset, e.g. graphs.
• Evaluate and manipulate a dataset. 
• Understand how to develop a strategy to analyse a dataset.

This workshop will demonstrate how to approach published papers and how to interpret and understand the results. We will discuss what factors to consider and and how to determine the relevance and validity of the results. This will be applied to previous literature for practice. By the end of the session you will be able to:

• Define how to critically review data and statistics in published work.
• Identify relevant information from a text for analysis.
• Apply what you have learned to your own research/purpose.

Maths can crop up in unexpected places! You may find that you have to practice your numeracy skills during your degree and are not sure how to prepare. This workshop aims to demonstrate different strategies to aid you in studying and revising maths, how to find appropriate study resources online and to let you know the different kinds of support available. This workshop will be one hour followed by time for you to ask any questions, it's perfect if you need a refresher on these study skills or just want to build your confidence!

Our colleagues in IT Training offer a course on SPSS that takes you through downloading and setting it up and then using it for data organisation, presntation and analysis. It is a course you can enrol on yourself via Moodle but there are no assignments or assessments. Its purpose is to support you in using SPSS for your work.

Enrol on SPSS Moodle course