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.

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)
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)
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) –
Submit a short application by 9 AM on 1 June 2026 to request your free place via this MS Form
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.

Persuasive Speaking: Q&A (Online, Monday 1st June): Handling questions may well be the most important part of a presentation, as it’s the time when you are least in control of what’s happening. You need to be clear, concise and confident, even when facing difficult questions. In this session, we walk you through a technique for how to come across both succinctly and convincingly. We then work on handling tough questions related to your research.

Blogging for Researchers (Online, Wednesday 3rd June): The workshop looks at blogging as a tool for knowledge exchange. Students should come away from this training confident in their ability to articulate ideas clearly to a range of audiences, formally and informally, through a variety of techniques.

Academic Writing: Introductions & Literature Reviews (Online, Tuesday 16th June): We explore the broad principles underlying academic writing – what makes academic writing distinctive, how to situate your argument within a broader literature, and how to structure a coherent argument. In this 90 minute session, the trainer will walk you through the five steps to writing a killer introduction and how to think about – and write – literature reviews.

National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)

NCRM training courses: A number of DTPs and other organisations list publicly available training here.

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.