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Short Courses in Research Methods: Schedule 2010-2011

The School of Social and Community Medicine provides a programme of high quality intensive short courses covering a range of health services research and epidemiological methods, as well as generic research skills. They are aimed at academics, public health specialists, health-care professionals and industry. Courses range in duration from one to five days. These courses are designed and taught by members of the School, with some invited speakers from the UK and abroad. The short course programme is highly regarded and student feedback on these courses is excellent.

Course Dates
Applied Field Epidemiology for Health Protection Specialists 12 - 14 October 2010
Introduction to Stata (Course repeated - later in year) 21 - 22 October 2010
Data Management for Health Research Methods using Microsoft Access 24 - 26 November 2010
Cancer Epidemiology 1 - 3 December 2010
Health Protection Principles and Practice 6 - 9 December 2010
Applied Health Protection 10 December 2010
Basic Epidemiology 17 - 21 January 2011
Critical Appraisal of Quantitative Research 28 January 2011
Introduction to Statistics 14 - 18 February 2011
Introduction to Stata 24 - 25 February 2011
Introduction to Research Governance 8 - 9 March 2011
Design and Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials 14 - 18 March 2011
Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods 21 - 25 March 2011
Introduction to Economic Evaluation 28 - 30 March 2011
Questionnaire Design, Application and Data Intepretation 4 - 6 April 2011
Advanced Stata 5 - 6 May 2011
Critical Appraisal of Published Qualitative Research 11 May 2011
Introduction to Linear and Logistic Regression Models 16 - 20 May 2011
Basic Genetics and Genomics 23 - 24 May 2011
Genetic Association Studies 25 - 26 May 2011
Advanced Genetics and Genomics 27 May 2011
Rates and Survival Analysis: Poisson, Cox and Parametric Regression Models 6 - 8 June 2011
Systematic Reviews In Health Care: Meta-Analysis in Context 15 - 17 June 2011
Advanced Epidemiological and Statistical Methods 27 June - 1 July 2011