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The course was great, really enjoyed it and felt I got a lot out of it – the combination of the theoretical and the methodological steps have provided me with tools for the PhD and required a renewed and deeper exploration of discourse analysis, giving me a lot to think about for the road ahead. […]

“The best visualization course I learned in @EssexSumSchool. I found solutions to almost all of the things I have struggled with over the last two years. Practical useful R skills on O-D data visualization+ animation + efficient way to extract and represent model parameters”   3D Computational Methods for Social Data Science: Exploring Society through […]

“I really enjoyed this course and found it incredibly helpful. It has provided me with a bank of knowledge and resources that i am looking forward to returning to over the course of my studies”   1C Introduction to Regression with Prof Tor Georg Jakobsen

“I am still buzzing from the qualitative data analysis discussion AND the reading lists *gold*

“The balance between seminars/lectures/activities was perfect. I got a lot out of the course and felt i have learnt so much in such a short space of time. I would absolutely recommend this to any other PhD student.”   1L Qualitative Interviewing with Dr Katy Wheeler & Dr Bethany Morgan Brett

“This course was really excellent. The instructors were so knowledgeable, but also very approachable and understanding of the different levels and backgrounds of the students. The course design was amazing – i have never experienced a course with both theoretical foundations and immediate practical applications. I have learned so much” 2N Confirmatory Factor Analysis and […]

“this is easily one of the best courses i have ever taken during any of my university studies. It felt like we were in an actual classroom and the course and instructor were engaging and interactive. I absolutely loved the class and learned so much.” 2S Introduction to Statistics for Social Science Research with SPSS. […]

Participating in the Quantitative Text Analysis course of the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis was truly a memorable and eye-opening experience for me as an undergraduate student. It not only provided me an invaluable opportunity to acquire knowledge in processing and visualizing data with some up-to-date models and packages in supervised and […]

“I can’t highlight enough my enjoyment of the course I attended”

more or less all academic projects I have been working on ever since are based on what I learned at ESS…