Researchers, professionals, members of academia and postgraduate students can look forward to and benefit from a bumper packed training schedule with a number of workshops, inaugural lectures and Stats Camp: South Africa.
The training schedule – that commenced in January – has seen a number of short learning programmes, workshops and special lectures take place. Some of the workshop themes included the ethics application process, the Mmogo method, precarity, the capability approach and positive psychology intervention design.
Upcoming events
- 30 March – 3 April: Workshop on visual elicitation methods
The workshop will be presented by Prof Linda Liebenberg and will focus on the use of visual elicitation methods in qualitative research. Visual elicitation methods can be described as the use of mechanisms, strategies and tools to encourage participant reflection on research topics and facilitate rich articulation of lived experience. This research method is used across multiple disciplines including educational psychology, psychology, social work, sociology and anthropology, nursing and other health professions.
- 30 March – 3 April: How to get your paper rejected
During this workshop, Prof Linda Liebenberg will focus on successful research publications and she will provide participants with practical guidelines for successful writing.
- 27 April – 1 May: Stats Camp South Africa.
Stats Camp South Africa
The four-day analysis retreat will take place during the last week of April 2020 and aims to enhance analytical competency in social and psychological research at a graduate and postgraduate level. This year will see Optentia collaborating with two international experts on statistical analysis, Prof Todd D Little and Prof Rens van de Schoot to present the retreat.
This event will furthermore bring experts across a wide range of statistical and methodological disciplines together for the purpose of helping researchers tackle any issues they might be facing with regard to their research projects. According to Prof Ian Rothmann, research director at Optentia, the instructors and teaching assistants form a collaborative network to help guide researchers through the research process.
“Stats Camp Analysis Retreats are highly relevant to current trends and practices in modern advanced statistical analysis,” explains Prof Rothmann and adds that they enable researchers to get practical hands-on instruction that delivers practical value.
Visit the Stats Camp South Africa website for more information.
