USING RESEARCH SOFTWARE
Extensive training is available in the tools now available to researchers in the humanities and social sciences.
Sessions take place in the Senate House Library Training Suite (north block, room 254). Space is limited,
therefore, and in order to attend it is essential to register in advance with Rosemary Lambeth, by emailing
rosemary.lambeth@sas.ac.uk.
ENDNOTE
EndNote is a widely-used tool for publishing and managing bibliographies.
EndNote: Basic training in electronic bibliographic techniques
This session is ‘hands-on’, and covers the basics as well as some more advanced features. The first part of the
session introduces the package and gives practice in sorting and searching, entering and editing references, and
importing references from EndNote to Word. More advanced features covered include the use of accents,
predefined styles, customising the program, downloading references from internet sources, importing images,
linking with other files. In the second part, students create and manipulate their own bibliographical database.
Familiarity with basic word-processing will be assumed. The session is suitable for beginners, and those already
familiar with EndNote.
Tutor: Dr Simon Trafford, IHR
The same session is repeated on each of the following dates:
Thursday 28 October 2010, 2.00 to 4.00 pm
Thursday 18 November, 2010 2.00 to 4.00 pm
Thursday 2 December 2010, 2.00 to 4.00 pm
Thursday 20 January 2011, 2.00 to 4.00 pm
EndNote: Intermediate training in electronic bibliographic techniques
This session is ‘hands-on’, and covers some of the more advanced features of Endnote. It assumes prior
attendance at one of the earlier basic EndNote sessions.
The same session is repeated on each of the following dates:
Thursday 24 February, 2.00 to 4.00 pm
Thursday 17 March, 2.00 to 4.00 pm
NVIVO
NVivo is one of the standard qualitative data analysis software packages used in social science and humanities
research.
Tutor: Dr Carlos Galviz, IHR
Monday 7 February 2011, 2.00 to 4.30 pm
NVivo: Introduction I
Students will explore the functionalities of NVivo 8 using their own research, learning how to create a project
and import transcripts; create journals, annotations, hyperlinks, assign demographic attributes; transcribe and
code audio, video and literature or external sources; organise sources for convenient coding as well as making
cases of focus group participants; create a node structure to store coding references and code sources.
Monday 21 February 2011, 2.00 to 4.30 pm
NVivo: Introduction II
Students will conduct in-depth data analyses, import transcripts and code and use simple and advanced queries
to explore patterns and find answers to research questions; model the current understanding of projects and
explore the administrative reporting facilities in NVivo 8.
SPSS
SPSS is the standard statistical analysis software used in social science research. New research students wishing
to learn SPSS should attend the Research Methodologies programme (see below), where the use of SPSS will be
taught in context. However, it may be possible to arrange for students to attend refresher courses as below.
Monday 17 January 2011, 2.00 to 4.30 pm
SPSS: Introduction I
SPSS file types; entering data in SPSS; variables; data manipulation; transforming variables; data analysis;
graphs
Monday 31 January 2011, 2.00 to 4.30 pm
SPSS: Introduction II
T-tests; chi-square test of significance; correlation; ordinary least squares regression; logistic regression.