Welcome to the LISS DTP Programming page. Here you will find information and guidance on the training we offer, such as reading groups led by students and/or academics and short courses, spanning areas such as:
- social theory and epistemology
- quantitative methods
- qualitative methods
- digital methods
- archival research
- knowledge transfer & co-generation methodologies
We are open to PhD students using social science methodologies in their research who are also enrolled at King’s College London, Queen Mary University of London, or Imperial College London. We ask interested students to complete our registration page, commit to attending the courses onto which they enrol, and give us feedback on their experience once the course is over.
You will find a list of courses that we are likely to run this year in our LISSDTP Handbook 2018-19. A physical copy of this handbook is available from your department administrator or by request to LISS-DTP@kcl.ac.uk. For a definitive list of courses running in each term, we recommend you bookmark this page since we will add new courses throughout the academic year. Below, you will find course outlines arranged by term.
You can find answers to our most commonly-asked questions here on our FAQs page. If you have a question that is not answered on the FAQs page, please do get in touch with the administrative team at liss-dtp@kcl.ac.uk.
Finally, please connect with us via social media. You can find us on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. All registered students will receive a curated bi-monthly newsletter with information on one-off events, new courses, and activities from all three institutions.
Current Students
All of our courses should be booked through our online booking system called ‘SkillsForge‘. If you are a student at Queen Mary or Imperial, you will only get access to the system after you sign up here. King’s students should log into the system using their ‘K’ number and password, as for their email account. All courses have a reference number starting ‘LISS’ and that reference can be found on course outlines. Please quote the reference number if you email us about a course.
Booking Periods in 2018-19
Our courses are available on a first come, first served basis. Booking periods open termly, i.e., you can only book onto autumn term courses during autumn term.
Courses will open for booking for autumn term on Friday 28 September 2018; spring term courses will open for booking on Monday 10 December 2018; and summer term courses will open for booking on Monday 01 April 2019.
Download a copy of the 2018-19 handbook here
Autumn Term Courses
LISS001 Research Design & Project Evaluation
LISS001b Research Ethics & Your Doctoral Project (King’s students only)
LISS002 Reviewing the Literature
LISS003 Philosophy of Social Science
LISS235 Ethnography Book Club [New name!]
LISS238 Social Network Analysis
LISS326 Researching Digital Texts with Corpus Tools [New name!]
LISS336 Security Ethnography Discourse [New name!]
LISS342 How to make a film with no idea about film-making [New!]
Spring Term Courses
LISS004 Introduction to Qualitative Research
LISS211 Understanding History – How the past is constructed
LISS218 Comparative Case Studies
LISS221 Elite Interviews
LISS232 Qualitative Data Analysis
LISS235 Ethnography Book Club
LISS236 GIS 1
LISS237 GIS 2
LISS245 Structural Equation Modelling on MPlus
LISS250 Intermediate Quantitative Analysis with SPSS & Process – Mediation & Moderation
LISS313 Visual Methodologies
LISS340 Performativity of Methods
Summer Term Courses
LISS005 Introduction to Quantitative Research
LISS032 Design & Evaluation of Complex Interventions
LISS201 Concept Formation
LISS213 Feminist Methods
LISS227 Ethnography Workshop
LISS235 Ethnography Book Club
LISS242 Data Management & Manipulation
LISS244 Panel Data
LISS247 Time Series Econometrics & Dynamic Panels
LISS248 Categorical Dependent Variables
LISS249 Econometric Methods for Causal Inference
LISS309 Researching Vulnerable Populations
LISS323 Producing Research Podcasts
LISS328 Ethics of Clinical Research
LISS343 The Colonial Question through Theory and Method
LISS344 Designing and using Focus Groups
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