Exeter’s Q-Step Centre launches video series to offer quantitative methods lessons in an accessible and innovative way

Students and staff within Exeter’s Q-Step Centre have recently launched a video series, Methods Matter, in an aim to offer quantitative methods lessons in an accessible and innovative way. Exeter’s Q Step Centre promotes a step-change in quantitative social science training, and aims to increase the number of social science undergraduates leaving education with data analysis skills.

Methods Matter is funded by the Nuffield Foundation, HEFCE and ESRC as part of the Q-Step initiative. The video series comprises 9 videos where researchers talked through one of their seminar papers and explained the methods they used. The students interviewed social researchers from Universities across the UK, and their interviews are followed by a summary of key lessons learned on each episode. Michel Scholer and Florence Hart, Politics students at the Penryn Campus, and Dr. Clare Saunders, the staff lead for the project, hope the videos will become a useful tool for social data analysis students.

You can view the videos, as they continue to be aired, on Exeter Q-Step’s YouTube Channel.

Are you a student interested in running your own project? If you have an idea or any questions, you can find out more information and which person from your College to get in contact with here.