📩 Interested in applying or want to find out more?

Contact:
👩‍🏫 Dr Melike Oguz Alper: [email protected]
👩‍🏫 Dr Angela Luna Hernandez: [email protected]
📋 Applications: Helen Davies: [email protected]

We’d love to hear from you!
#CPD #DataScience #OfficialStatistics

Statistics in Government
📅 11–15 May 2026
👨‍🏫 Dr Jeff Ralph
Explore the scope, organisation, and standards of official statistics in practice.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Evaluation and Monitoring
📅 4–8 May 2026
👨‍🏫 Dr Yves Berger
Design and analyse intervention evaluations using advanced statistical techniques.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Small Area Estimation
📅 16–20 March 2026
👨‍🏫 Prof Nikos Tzavidis & Dr Angela Luna Hernandez
SAE methods for modelling at low levels of aggregation. Delivered in R.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Machine Learning
📅 2–6 March 2026
👨‍🏫 Prof Li-Chun Zhang
Explore statistical learning methods including SVM, PCA, and ensemble methods. In R.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Data Mining
📅 23–27 February 2026
👨‍🏫 Dr Jason Hilton
Techniques for collecting, cleaning, and analysing structured/unstructured data in Python.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Analysis of Complex Survey Data
📅 2–6 February 2026
👨‍🏫 Prof Danny Pfeffermann
Modelling survey data with weighting, clustering, and stratification using STATA or R.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Multilevel Modelling
📅 26–30 January 2026
👩‍🏫 Dr Angela Luna Hernandez
Analyse hierarchical data structures using MLwiN, R, and Stata.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Data Visualisation
📅 1–5 December 2025
👨‍🏫 Dr Jason Hilton
Design effective static, dynamic, and interactive visualisations. Delivered in Python.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Survey Fundamentals
📅 24–28 November 2025
👩‍🏫 Dr Melike Oguz Alper
Covers basic sampling and estimation: SRS, stratified, cluster, and multistage methods.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

Data Science Foundations
📅 10–14 November 2025
👨‍🏫 Dr Jason Hilton & Dr Francesco Pantalone
Intro to big data sources, messy data, web scraping, and data analysis in R.
🔗 southampton.ac.uk/courses/2025...

📢 Our 2025–26 CPD courses in Social & Official Statistics are now open!

🗓️Nov 2025–May 2026
📍University of Southampton (Highfield campus)
💷£1000 per course
🎓With or without assessment (credits may count towards the MSc in Data Analytics for Government)

🧵 More info👇

NCRM has supported #ResearchMethods innovation and helped to advance training practices through a range of initiatives.

These include national networks, which enabled members to share knowledge, collaborate and identify priorities.

Read about our impact: buff.ly/RisFFv4

📢 Thinking of studying at the University of Southampton?

Apply for a Chevening Scholarship to join one of the postgraduate taught programmes in our department.

🌍 Open to international students
🗓 Deadline: 7 Oct 2025
🔗 chevening.org/scholarships/
📚 Our programmes: bit.ly/4gN6nCJ

🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...
📧 Contact: Dr Olga Maslovskaya ([email protected])
📅 Deadline: Friday 6 June 2025

📢 The Population Investigation Committee (PIC) Scholarship 2025 is now open!

UK students can apply for funding to study MSc Social Research Methods with Demography or MSc Social Research Methods with Applied Statistics at the University of Southampton.

More info ⬇️

Hey #population #postgraduate students - submit your abstracts on all things #demography, #migration, #health, #data and #spatial issues for #PopFest2025.

🏃🏃 Head to the info page for more about the research strands and submission:
www.cpc.ac.uk/activities/p...

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