February 2025 Newsletter

Applications are now open for the 2025 Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis! Early application is highly recommended as courses fill quickly! Read our February newsletter for additional updates, including details about scholarship opportunities, new ESS courses hosted at Simon Fraser University, and our new Data Skills courses for professional development. Best wishes, […]

Kick off the new year by catching up on all the latest updates, exciting news, and special features in our January Newsletter. Read the full newsletter and stay connected with our community!      

ESS 2024 is now over and we want to thank everyone  – the instructors, participants, staff and everyone else who made it another successful year. We will return in summer 2025 for our 58th summer school and so please ensure you are signed up to our mailing list to hear when we launch.    

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. […]