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Advanced Training Modules

Our Advanced Training improves the quality of PhD work, creates networking opportunities regionally and nationally, and brings cutting-edge expert knowledge to the heart of doctoral training.

View Advanced Training Modules (2024/25 academic year)

Advanced Training Modules open to all MGS DTP researchers (click on the names below for further details. Modules will be in person, unless otherwise stated).

Modules without dates will be updated as soon as dates are available.
Code	Title	Credits
ENGL4158	Corpus Linguistics	10
EPID4033	Systematic Reviews (Every Monday from 03/02/2025 - 24/03/2025)	10
LAWW4129	Children and Research (09 and 10 December 2024)	10
NURS4014	Evaluating Services, Interventions and Policy (not running in 2024/25)	10
NURS4049	Mixed Methods in Health Research (16 & 23 May 2025. Online)	10
NURS4072	Individual & Group Interviews (19 & 20 May 2025)	10
NURS4075	Individual & Group Interviews (12 & 13 May 2025. Online)	10
PHARM4005	Social Epidemiology: theories and methods for understanding the social determinants of health (not running in 2024/25)	10
PSGY4002	Advanced Methods in Psychology	20
PSGY4013	Analytical Research Methods	10
SOCI4063	Doing Ethnography (4 & 5 June 2025)	10
SOCI4064	Researching Media, Culture & Society (Not running 2024/25)	10
SOCI4068	Archival Methods (Not running 2024/25)	10
SOCI4075	Researching Public Policy and Management (Not running 2024/25)	10

View Other Specialist Modules offered by Schools and Departments

Specialist modules offered by Schools and Departments open to some MGS DTP researchers depending on prior expertise and requirements (Click on the names below for full details. Modules will be in person, unless otherwise stated).

Modules without dates will be updated as soon as dates are available.
Code	Title	Credits
LAWW4051	Research Methods in Law	15
PSGY4004	Psychological Research in Context	20
PSGY4008	Current Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience	10
PSGY4009	Functional Imaging	10
PSGY4014	Introduction to Programming in Matlab	10
SOCI4005	Researching the Social: Contemporary Debates in Sociology	20
SOCI4011	Public Management & Governance (not running in 2024-25)	10
SOCI4017	Globalisation, Europeanisation & Public Policy	10
SOCI4032	Leadership, Strategy & Performance in the Public Sector	10
SOCI4052	Economic and Policy Analysis	10
SOCI4069	Investigating Social Policy (31 Janaury - 09 May 2025)	20
SOCI4085	Dynamics of International Social Policy	10
SOCW4008	Contemporary Issues and Debates in Social Work (30 January - 08 May 2025)	20

Find Out About Advanced Training elsewhere in the Consortium (ESRC-funded students only)

In addition to their home institution offering, ESRC-funded students will have the option to take advanced training across the consortium. Examples include Digital Methods and Big Social Data (Warwick), Q-Methodology, A Systematic Approach for Interpretive Research Design (Birmingham); and Methodological Implications of Critical Realism (Loughborough).

Further information can be found here.

Request a Place on the Advanced Training Modules

Nottingham ESRC Doctoral Training Programmes

University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 4708
email: esrc-dtc@nottingham.ac.uk