Online courses
Online courses you may find helpful in supporting your studies, that cover academic writing; working with research data; and IT training.
IAD PGT workshops online
Most of our programme is delivered through online, interactive workshops, open to all PGT students. Please check the ‘Venue’ of a workshop to see if it is online or on campus.
Working with research data
MANTRA: research data management training MANTRA is a non-credit, free course which provides guidelines for good practice in research data management. It includes self-study software practicals on SPSS and NVivo, plus tutorials on organising, formatting and storing digital research data.
MANTRA: research data management training
Statistics courses on LinkedIn Learning
Statistics Foundations 1: Learn the most common statistics, including mean, median, standard deviation, probability and more, in these beginner-level statistics lessons.
Statistics Foundations 1 - find out more
Statistics Foundations 2: Get practical, example-based learning of the intermediate skills associated with statistics: samples and sampling, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing.
Statistics Foundations 2 - find out more
Statistics Foundations 3: Complete your mastery of statistics. Get an advanced understanding of concepts such as t-distribution, degrees of freedom, chi-square testing, regression testing, and ANOVA.
IT training
Digital Skills Documents Catalogue (UUN sign in required)
Subject-specific courses
Massive Open Online Courses - or 'MOOCs' - are increasingly becoming available from a number of leading international Universities.
Coursera brings together a number of these courses; subject areas include humanities and social sciences; healthcare, medicine and biology; maths and statistics; economics, finance and business; and computer science.