London Interdisciplinary Social Science (LISS) DTP
LISS DTP is pleased to open up the following courses that takes place in April-June 2026 to PGRs and postdocs in other ESRC DTPs. Please click the links to find out more about course dates, course description, and to access the booking link.
- LISS2003N Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Research (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2007 Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2114 Introduction to Web Scraping (in-person, Queen Mary, University of London)
- LISS2115 CADS: Using corpus-assisted discourse studies (in-person, Queen Mary, University of London)
- LISS2116 Feminist knowledge production: epistemologies and methodologies (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2117 Quantitative methods for text classification and topic detection (online)
- LISS2118 Counter Mapping Research (in-person, Queen Mary, University of London)
- LISS2119 Introduction to the Ethical & Societal Impacts of AI (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2129 Collaborations and Working in Multidisciplinary Teams (online)
- LISS2130 Engaging Parliament as a Researcher (in-person, King’s College London)
- LISS2131 Qualitative Interviewing (
online) - LISS2135 Getting started with community-based research (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2136 Photovoice Research; Intro. to Participatory Methods through Creative Mediums (in-person, Queen Mary, University of London)
- LISS2137 Preparing for Fieldwork: Fundamentals for your First Time in the Field (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2138 Communicating Research Across Disciplines (in-person; King’s College London)
- LISS2139 Publishing Scholarly Monographs in the Social Sciences and Humanities (in-person, King’s College London, for final-stage PhD students only)
- LISS377 Knowledge Production in and about Africa (in-person; King’s College London)
How to Register – Step by Step:
- Make sure you have access to SkillsForge before you sign up for our courses. Visit this web page to see how to create an affiliate student account and request for the account to be given booking access to SkillsForge.
- After you have requested access, you will be able to see LISS courses. However, you will need to wait for up to 3 working days for the confirmation that you have been given permission to book courses. Please contact the LISS DTP Team via liss-dtp@kcl.ac.uk, with a list of courses you’d like to book, if you have difficulty accessing the system after 3 working days.
- Follow enrolment links in the course outline above to register via SkillsForge or visit SkillsForge directly to find your desired course. Please note that you need to log in as an ‘external LISS DTP user’ to your SkillsForge account and register for LISS courses. For any queries, please contact the LISS DTP Team via liss-dtp@kcl.ac.uk.
- Contact the LISS DTP Team for the meeting link if you have not received this 24 hours before your course’s first session via liss-dtp@kcl.ac.uk.
London School of Economics (LSE) DTP
Methods Short Courses: Some places are often available to external students.
National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
NCRM training courses: A number of DTPs list publicly available training here.
Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS)
Training events: Some are publicly available, as stated in the calendar.
South West DTP (SWDTP)
Data Analysis Webinar Series: Various sessions are scheduled up to Tuesday 19th May 2026.
University College London (UCL)
An Introduction to Research Data, Metadata and the FAIR Principles: Self-guided, asynchronous online course.
