Training available from other Doctoral Training Partnerships

London Interdisciplinary Social Science (LISS) DTP

LISS DTP is pleased to open up the following courses that take place up to late 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.
How to Register – Step by Step:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 and other organisations list publicly available training here.

South and East Network for Social Sciences (SENSS) DTP

Introduction to Computational Methods and Simulations: running over four blocks from Tuesday 19th-Friday 22nd May 2026. This four-day online training event introduces core ideas, methods, and research practices in Computational Social Science (CSS), with a particular focus on computational simulations, agent-based modelling, and natural language processing (NLP). The course is designed to provide doctoral researchers with a conceptual and methodological foundation for understanding when and how computational approaches can be used to address social science research questions.

Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS)

Training events: Regularly open to PGRs from other ESRC DTPs.

Introduction to Panel Surveys, Understanding Society and Panel Data: This course (on Friday 29th May 2026, at the Edinburgh Futures Institute) is intended for quantitative researchers and data analysts who possess some prior experience in cross-sectional data analysis and wish to begin working with longitudinal or panel data.

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.