Apply to take part in our one-week, intensive summer school primarily for postgraduate research students and early career researchers. It is intended for people who do not write code but may wish to, or are, utilising digital methods.
The Summer School will bring together BU researchers with those working nationally and internationally and will be taught by a mixture of world-leading experts from BU and beyond.
During the week we will cover digital media research from data collection through to different analytical approaches and will include sessions on research ethics and industrial collaborations. Previous iterations of this course have led to publications in internationally recognised journals. Producing a publication is central to the course.
Attendees may opt to work on individual projects or work as part of a small team and there is the potential to create an article with a BU academic. You will learn how to collect website and social media data using both screen-scraping techniques and through APIs. Once collected, you will learn how to clean and then analyse the data using two methods: content analysis and social network analysis. Finally, the course will introduce you to data visualisation techniques.
Application deadline: Tuesday 6 June
Download the Digital Methods Summer School itinerary (pdf 204kb)
Places are limited to ensure the overall quality of the learning experience. Successful applicants will be notified by Friday 9 June latest.
Fees: Selected applicants will be asked to pay a £100 deposit; this will be released on completion of the summer school. Attendance is free and catering will be provided.
For external applicants we will aim to offer some small bursaries to part cover costs.