Doctoral and Early Career Researcher Symposium at Coventry University

Thursday 11th May

9:00am to 4:30pm 

The Techno Centre, Coventry University Technology Park, Puma Way, Coventry CV1 2TT

Room CC1.3

New forms of data, data science and data analytics have reshaped social science research over the past years. Rapid growth has been spurred on by the proliferation of complex and rich data in science, industry and government, which are potentially available for research. As a result, (big) data analytics are no longer the preserve of engineering and computer science students, but as big datasets are increasingly becoming common in most domains, analytical skills have become essential to most fields of study and practice, and certainly to social science and Business School students. These trends have set new expectations about research questions, data collection and analysis methods as well as the general skills of doctoral students in social science research. Social science doctoral programmes have responded to the challenge of integrating new methods at the intersection of the computational and social sciences with new programmes and communities. Beyond these specialised programmes, the vast majority of doctoral courses have not caught up methodologically with advances in the area or are not able to harness the potential fully.

Further details on this event can be found here.