ESRC DTP Training

Welcome to the Cambridge ESRC DTP Training Web Pages where you can view our current training programme and training news from around the University and externally. Please drop me a line if you have any questions and don't forget that Thursdays during term time is a drop-in day when you can find me in S44, 17 Mill Lane.

with best wishes

Alison Harvey
ESRC DTP Training Manager

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Our Easter Term training programme is packed with training

around how to be creative with your research!

All events below are open to postgraduate students across

the School of Humanities and Social Science

Wednesday 12th June Finally, we are delighted to invite back Dr Steven Wooding with a Visualising Data workshop, Wednesday 12th June, when you can learn how to use diagrams to illustrate frameworks, concepts and ideas, as well as how to design effective graphs and charts – Register now for a place

See all the latest Training News

Below are other training providers both within and externally to the University

	University of Cambridge Training
As a postgraduate student, you are able to join any one of these networks. Many of them provide innovative and creative training sessions that are not provided by departments or other central university networks.	University of Cambridge Strategic Research Initiatives/ Networks and Interdisciplinary Research Centres
See our fellow DTPs and training they offer	ESRC DTPs across the UK
National Resources	The ESRC funds a range of data and methods services to support research and study. It provides resources needed to access high quality socio-economic data and to develop research skills. These services are:

	National Centre for Research Methods (see link to the right of this page for forthcoming training). NCRM aims to drive forward methodological development and innovation through a programme of training and events, increasing the quality and range of approaches used by social scientists.
	The UK Data Service: provides access to a collection of over 6,000 high quality socio-economic data sets. It supports data users and works to improve data management.
	The Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS) manages four British cohort studies: the 1958 National Child Development Study, the 1970 British Cohort Study, Next Steps, and the Millennium Cohort Study.
	CLOSER supports the use of longitudinal research. Key resources include reading lists and summaries of findings, and a search portal to help find out what data has been collected across all nine studies in the CLOSER partnership.
	Understanding Society is a major longitudinal survey of around 40,000 UK households. The site contains information on the survey, as well as research articles, reports and policy briefings based on this survey.
	The Administrative Data Research Network enables accredited researchers to access securely held de-identified linked administrative data for research that has potential benefit to society.
	Census and Administrative data LongitudinaL Studies Hub enables researchers to access census based longitudinal data selected from census records over time as well as linked material from other administrative datasets (such as health data).